SACS Reaffirmation
| Objective | Increase Program Visibility | |
| Increase the overall visibility of the Instructional Leadership program through written publications, verbal presentations and electronic media.
Associated Goals: Customer Satisfaction |
| Indicator | Increase Program Visibility Number of presentations made and publications distritubted regarding the Instructional Leadership program will increase. |
| Criteria | Increased Information Access Increase the number of "hits" on the website by 25%. In addtion, increase the number of Instructional Leadership promotional materials developed and distributed by 25%. |
| Finding | Increase IL Promotion Materials We have placed advertisments in journals, and we have increased the recruitment efforts. |
| Finding | Increased Access The Instructional Leadership website was revised to include more information, and to create a better organization of the information |
| Finding | Increased number of Hits This is an area we are still in the process of evaluating. |
| Action | Check and evaluate website We will insert a counter on our web pages to see the number of times our website is accessed. We also find a tracking system that will allow us to collect data to analyze from where the "hits" are coming. |
| Action | Increase promotional materials We will continue to produce flyers to share with teachers and administrators. We are working to increase partnerhips with disctricts in which cohorts of candidates are selected and trained. In addition, we will continue our advertisement campaign. |
| Action | Website enhancement We will continue to work on the website to increase visibility and user friendly access to program information. We will use feedback from students, professors, and the public to help keep the website populated with the most current information. |
| Objective | Program Satisfaction | |
| Increase students' progam satisfaction of the instructional leadership. Associated Goals: Customer Satisfaction |
| Indicator | Expressed Satisfaction A survey will be constructed to assess student satisfaction with the program. |
| Criteria | Satisfaction Criteria Once a survey is created, 90% of students express satisfaction with the program and acquired skills related to school leadership. |
| Finding | A survey created We created a survey to give to graduates of Instructional Leadership programs. It is still in progress. |
| Action | Survey creation A survey has been created. The next step is to get the survey to Computer Services so they can put it online. We will start surveying recent 2007 and 2008) graduates. Then we will continue to survey future graduates as they finish their practicum. |
| Objective | Student Enrollment | |
| Increase student enrollment and program completion. Associated Goals: Customer Satisfaction |
| Indicator | Increased Student Enrollment Enrollment will increase at a rate equal to or greater than the University goal for growth. |
| Criteria | Increased Enrollment Enrollment will increase at least 3% each year. |
| Finding | Increased Enrollment We continue to recruit and accept new candidates for Instructional Leadership programs. For 2007-2008 we added 13 new students to the program. We currently do not have a system for tracking student enrollment and progress. |
| Action | Student Enrollment Activities We continue to actively recruit students into the IL program. We expanded the options for minors and electives, thus we expect to attract more students. We want to increase enrollment by 3% each year. |
| Action | Tracking Enrollment We need to develop a better tracking system for current students and new students to that we can determin new students, students in progress, and graduates. |
| Objective | Align Embedded Activities | |
| Embedded internship activities for each core course will be aligned to ELCC Standards Associated Goals: Reframe/Restructuring |
| Indicator | Alignment Of Embedded Activities Embedded internship activities of leadership courses will be aligned with content and skills specific to teacher leadership as indicated in the ELCC Standards. |
| Criteria | Embedded Activity Analysis One hundred percent of the core leadership syllabi will include the ELCC aligned internship embedded activities. |
| Finding | Align Embedded Activities We have added more areas in which students may minor or take elective course work. Embedded activities still need to be aligned to these various new elective areas so that students will complete activities in line with the mionr or elective work. |
| Action | Embedded Activities We need to sit with the chair or the chairs'''' designee for each minor area and/or elective area and create a template for embedded activities by which the professors can differentiate the embedded activities students must complete. In addition, we will align our program with supervison and instructional leadership standards currently under construction. |
| Objective | Syllabi Alignment | |
| Align Instructional Leadership core course syllabi to ELCC Standards. Associated Goals: Reframe/Restructuring |
| Indicator | Alignment Of Syllabi Syllabi of leadership courses will be aligned with content and skills specific to teacher leadership as indicated in the ELCC Standards. |
| Criteria | Syllabi Analysis Every syllabi for core leadership courses contains a list of ELCC standards that are aligned to the course content. |
| Finding | Alignment Activity Instructional leadership is not aligned with the applicable ELCC standards, and we are looking for other standards with which we might continue to align our program. |
| Action | Syllabi Study We must continue the efforts to make the syllabi align to course objectives and standards, and we must begin to create syllabi templates for the increased minor and elective areas. |