Leadership/California Standards for Educational Leaders (CPSELs)

Description

Like content standards for students and professional standards for teachers, the CPSELs lay out the field of work in a thorough and balanced way. These standards provide a common language for engaging in important discussions about quality administrators: what it takes to prepare them, induct them  into the profession, support them in their continuing development, and recognize  them as highly accomplished professionals. The standards take individual needs into account in informing and guiding administrators as they progress from aspiring administrators to accomplished administrators.

The CPSELs are aligned with the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium  (ISLLC) standards. The latter is a comprehensive set of standards for administrators that is used to prepare, license, and select administrators in several states. California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) standards have been developed for candidates seeking their administrator credential. The CPSELs are based on the ISLLC standards and the CCTC standards, and are used as the basis of administrator development. The administrator who meets these standards is one who helps teachers meet their professional standards and helps students meet  their content standards. The establishment of these administrator standards can lead to a support system for new administrators as well as the recognition  of a “master administrator.”

The six CPSELs are:

1. A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by the school community,
2. A school administrator is an educational  leader who promotes the success of all students by advocating, nurturing, and  sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth,
3. A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by ensuring management of the  organization, operations, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective  learning environment,
4. A school administrator is an educational leader who  promotes the success of all students by collaborating with families and community  members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing  community resources,
5. A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by modeling a personal code of ethics and developing professional leadership capacity, and
6. A school administrator  is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by understanding,  responding to, and influencing the larger political, social, economic, legal,  and cultural context.

Services Available Through SCOE

The SCOE C & I department is available to broker services from experts in the CPSELs to continue the focus on effective implementation.

Contact 

For more information, contact Mike DeRoss at 842-8440.

Updated for school year 2007-08.