Rising Stars Collaboratives™ Program
Data shows that 99 percent of Georgia's school leaders - principals, assistant principals, and teacher leaders - are recruited from within their own regions. Unfortunately, the local or regional university preparation programs these aspiring leaders attend often lack opportunities for real job experience.
The Rising Stars Collaboratives™ Program provides customized, localized instruction and guidance to support mastery of priority leadership skills and the opportunity to practice critical leadership tasks on the job - with coaching, feedback, and support - creating an intensive, yet safe environment for developing leaders to "learn by doing."
What is a Rising Stars
Collaborative™?
The Collaborative consists of district(s) with similar needs,
the Regional Education Service Agency (RESA), the local university leadership
preparation program, a GLISI program director, and GLISI-trained leadership
performance coaches. Together, they create custom-designed practice experiences
and coursework for their aspiring leaders and/or assistant
principals. Using GLISI's library of
Performance-based
Modules as curriculum, at least 50 percent of the program
consists of practice in the actual school setting with
feedback against clear criteria. Participants archive
evidence of their proficiency in an electronic portfolio.
The Rising Stars
Collaboratives™
Program is funded in part by the U.S. Department of
Education (CFDA
84.363A)
and the Wallace Foundation.
United States Department of Education:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/leadership/index.html
The Wallace Foundation:
http://www.wallacefoundation.org/WF/ELAN/SD/SAELP_GA/
How can Rising Stars
Collaboratives™ help your district?
All of Georgia's university educational leadership
preparation programs will soon be required to meet new
certification standards requiring that they be performance-based and offered in
collaboration with districts. Rising Stars Collaboratives™
already meet this new standard, connecting university
programs and RESAs to district leaders to create an
effective
program that meets local and regional needs.
“As an educator, committed to seeking improvement opportunities for our profession, I see Rising Stars as an excellent learning and developing experience for our young leaders. The process has no equal for the high level of support and expectations that will ensure success for the participants. These are exciting times - to be on this side of laying the foundations to see our leaders today transform into a new dimension of the profession through Rising Stars.”
--Joan Clark, Professional Learning Coordinator,
Okefenokee RESA
How do we get started?
Follow this
step-by-step guide to establishing a
Rising Stars Collaborative™
in your region.
New GLISI Research:
Rising Stars Impact is a six-part series
disseminating the findings of Rising Stars
Collaboratives Program™ as a Pathway to
Leadership Development: A Case Study, an
in-depth analysis of GLISI's Rising Stars
Collaboratives Program™. The case study was
conducted by a University of Georgia College of
Education research team led by Sally Zepeda,
Ph.D., Professor and Principal Investigator,
University of Georgia Department of Lifelong
Education, Administration, and Policy. The
series explores the theoretical and practical
elements of the findings by aligning discoveries
to the core competencies and organizational
issues faced by education leaders today.
The first installment, Promoting a Positive Organizational Culture is now available. Click here to read the first of the series pieces!
