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.


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