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Superintendents' Strategy Summit 2012: Unleashing Your Greatest Asset: Human Capital

webuser@dmcouncil.org (District Management Council The) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:40:14 GMT

DMC’s 9th Superintendents’ Strategy Summit occurred January 18-20, 2012, in New York City. The focus of this year’s event was the importance of developing human capital as a way to increase organizational effectiveness. DMC presented on a various topics related to human capital through the lens of motivation. The conference featured a variety of interactive exercises and guest speakers to provide examples of the power of teams, designing jobs strategically, and motivating through non-monetary rewards, all strategies to help unleash a district's greatest hidden asset: human capital.

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The Importance of Developing Principal Effectiveness

webuser@dmcouncil.org (District Management Council The) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT

With a recent report on the competing pressures placed on school principals in the face of budgets declines making headlines across the country and state legislatures mandating new principal evaluation systems that include student achievement data, principals continue to be in the spotlight. The District Management Council has a variety of resources for district leaders who are working on developing principal evaluation systems, as well as those who are looking for ways to improve the support, professional development, and effectiveness of their school leaders.

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2011 Leadership Development Meeting: Principal Effectiveness: Aligning Evaluation, ...

webuser@dmcouncil.org (District Management Council The) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT

DMC’s Leadership Development Meeting: Principal Effectiveness: Aligning Evaluation, Accountability, and Support for a Changing Role occurred Nov. 11, 2011, in Boston. The focus of this year’s event was on key leadership and managerial tactics school districts can use to implement systemic approaches to improve principal effectiveness. The emphasis on on aligning diverse functions, systems, and data to improve overall management and coordination of principal effectiveness components, including evaluations.

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Principal Effectiveness: Aligning Evaluation, Accountability, and Support for a Changing Role

webuser@dmcouncil.org (District Management Council The) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:51:58 GMT

On Friday, DMC held its annual Leadership Development Meeting in Boston on Principal Effectiveness: Aligning Evaluation, Accountability, and Support for a Changing Role. The meeting focused on key leadership and managerial tactics school districts can use to implement systemic approaches to improve principal effectiveness. The emphasis was on aligning diverse functions, systems, and data to improve overall management and coordination of principal effectiveness components, including evaluations.

Research has shown the relationship between a great principal and student achievement time and time again. Of school-based factors, the principal’s

Allocating Resources Effectively: The Importance of Strategic Abandonment

webuser@dmcouncil.org (District Management Council The) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:36:16 GMT

Effective resource allocation – spending money on what works to raise student achievement – is a top priority in districts today. With the ongoing fiscal crisis and fears of a double-dip recession making economic considerations even more important for districts nationwide, leaders should equip themselves with new strategies for improving how resources are used. Increasingly, DMC member districts are having strategic conversations that challenge past district practices and even conventional wisdom about where to find resource reallocation opportunities.

Some important lessons of strategic planning focus on the

Developing Human Capital : DMC's top articles

webuser@dmcouncil.org (District Management Council The) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:34:13 GMT

With the school year now well underway, topics in human capital, such as teacher and principal effectiveness, continue to be the focal point of many DMC members’ strategic initiatives. As a nation, our pursuit of improved teaching and learning has shifted in response to research findings and outcomes data: the pursuit of “highly qualified teachers” has transitioned to a pursuit of “teacher effectiveness.”

Likewise, the role of the principal is being newly rethought in light of student achievement outcomes and how the principal can most effectively drive a district’s theory

New Volume of the DM Journal!

webuser@dmcouncil.org (District Management Council The) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:24:42 GMT

Check your mailboxes! The latest issue of the District Management Journal is about to arrive. As schools start up again, we reflect on how to use available resources most effectively for student outcomes, and we hope these articles provide you and your colleagues some new insights. Despite the slow recovery of our country’s economy, DMC member districts continue to lead with new ideas about how to do more with less. Our new issue of The District Management Journal highlights some of these approaches.

The Spotlight and Manager’s

Strategies for Human Capital Improvement and Development

webuser@dmcouncil.org (District Management Council The) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:13:29 GMT

School may be out for most students, but, for administrators, the summer remains a busy period. In particular, the summer is when much of a district’s human capital work must get accomplished: district leaders are focusing on the recruitment, selection, training, professional development, and performance management of teachers, principals, and other staff. These traditional human resource activities are, to be sure, important and urgent, but they do not capture the full scope of human capital. At DMC, we have long believed that a focus on human capital must transcend a transactional nature of administering benefits, keeping records, and serving employees.

Pay for Performance Structures

webuser@dmcouncil.org (District Management Council The) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:07:03 GMT

Teacher effectiveness dominates a significant amount of the education agenda these days. There are many possible strategies for improving effectiveness, from improving recruiting to rethinking what happens in the classroom to teacher evaluations. An effective faculty is a motivated faculty, thus compensation and incentives reform is again grabbing many headlines. From Indiana’s new state policies to coverage on rethinking the teacher profession from DMC member Jack Dale, Superintendent in Fairfax County, VA, the conversation about compensation reform is heating up.

Variable pay plans are increasingly popular in public school districts. Indeed, the Department of Education’s Teacher Incentive

Innovating in Education

webuser@dmcouncil.org (District Management Council The) — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:57:07 GMT

Innovation in education is back in the news. For DMC, strategic innovation is a means to pursue our three goals of increasing student achievement while improving operational efficiency and reducing or maintaining costs. Innovation is especially needed in today’s fiscally difficult ties to help districts think about doing things differently, not just about how to make budget reductions. We identify three main stages in the innovation process: 1) idea generation, 2) testing and refinement, and 3) replication at scale.

For DMC, an innovation is something that is actually implemented and achieves results. Our definition distinguishes between the concepts