The success that a school will experience with such a process is directly related to participation that evolves out of commitment and a willingness to become involved. District support will be directed to those schools, which will have come voluntarily to the program. The cost in human resource time, as well as financially to provide he facilitator support and training and to engage external assessors, as outlined in this proposal, will restrict the district capability to response to a large number of schools in any given year. This reality necessitates a selection procedure. Conduct an information meeting with interested principals to explain the program and its implications.
Principals return to schools and consult with staffs about their involvement.
Survey administrators to determine interest in the School Growth Program. Conduct a selection meeting. Principals of interested schools would collectively select the participating schools for the upcoming year, as per the identified criteria. Successful efforts in the area of School Growth is viewed to be very much dependent upon a high degree of skill proficiency in an area which we will refer to as facilitative leadership. To help us to more clearly define such a requirement, we have identified those skill areas upon which we would focus a training initiative.