Dr. Lanning and I recently facilitated a workshop with Region 15 Administrators on effective 21^st century school leadership. Using the book Change Leadership as a guide, Administrators discussed the seven disciplines for improving instruction and assessing Region 15’s progress.  The authors of Change Leadership identified the following seven practices as central to a successful systemic-instructional improvement effort:

1. Urgency for instructional improvement using real data
2. Shared vision of good teaching
3. Meeting about the work
4. A shared vision of student results
5. Effective supervision
6. Professional development
7. Diagnostic data with accountable collaboration

These practices represent an interdependent systems approach to improving instruction.

It is encouraging to know that our administrative team continues to focus on how best to effect systemic improvement so that all children’s learning improves.

Our goal is to provide healthy, nutritious, and affordable lunches for our students.  We continually strive to hold the line on costs. Recent increases passed on to us by vendors as well as the introduction of healthier food options necessitate a $.50 increase in lunch prices for 2007-08.  Please note the increase as follows:

http://www.region15.org/insidethedistrict.shtml

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