Based on premises about the importance of people, their thinking capabilities, and their quality of thought, LDP continues to be an extraordinarily valuable process. Using trainers' tips from across the state, significant revisions were made to the LDP trainer's manual, appendices, and materials in 1997. Each participant brings the data necessary to evaluate a program. Past participants have evaluated special education, reading, gifted and talented, and vocational programs. The nine steps of program evaluation include clarifying goals, developing an evaluation design, collecting data, conducting telephone interviews, and delivering an evaluation report.
Participants leave with a completed program evaluation report.
Participants must attend all three days. The Leadership Development Process has given school leaders specific tools and frameworks during the last 12 years that have enabled them to involve all participants in the decision-making process. Based on premises about the importance of people, their thinking capabilities, and their quality of thought, LDP continues to be an extraordinarily valuable process. In 1997, revisions were made to the participants' manual in collaboration with Charles G. Krone, author of the original materials used with the DuPont Chemicals Company.