Principle 1: Leadership, Organization and Support

PRINCIPLE STATEMENT:

Programs of Study are developed, supported and led with guidance from collaborative partners.
 
PRINCIPLE DESIGN ELEMENTS:

1. Leaders support authentic collaborative partnerships that include secondary and postsecondary education and encourage the active involvement of business and industry and labor organizations; community-based organizations and community members; student organizations; parent organizations; and other organizations and agencies that benefit student transition to college and careers.
2. Leaders establish and communicate a vision, mission, and goals that are aligned with enabling federal and state policies and important components of the larger educational system.
3. Leaders encourage individuals at all levels to engage in shared decision making, encouraging the perspective of individuals and groups not always active in curriculum reform and organizational change.
4. Leaders nurture a collaborative culture of respect, high expectations, and demonstrable student outcomes and benefits for partners.
5. Leaders formalize genuine collaborative partnerships, including the roles and responsibility of member entities and create a formal memorandum of understanding to ensure clarity and accountability.
6. Leaders encourage the planning, implementation and evaluation of Programs of Study that are guided by active, joint secondary-postsecondary advisory committees.
7. Leaders encourage that resources including personnel, fiscal, curriculum, physical, and technology are adequate and distributed appropriately among partners.
8. Leaders encourage that partners receive technical assistance and technology assistance to support Program of Study implementation and continuous improvement.

PRINCIPLE RESOURCES:

Association of American Colleges and Universities, & Council for Higher Education
Accreditation. (2008). New leadership for student learning and accountability. Washington DC: Authors.

Arona, D. G. (2005). Leadership in an age of uncertainty. Boston, ME: Boston Harvard Business School Press.

Joint advisory committee. (2004). Developing a local advisory committee resource handbook. Lincoln, NE: Nebraska Library Commission.

Kotter, J.P. (1995). Leading change: Why transformation efforts fail. Harvard Business Review, 73(2), 59-67.

• Memorandum of Understanding sample agreement.

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