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A safe and supportive environment is one of the most important factors influencing the quality of student learning and achievement. Effective...
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Case Study: Leading the Leadership Team
About This Case: This case focuses on the need for a strong and cohesive leadership team. According to Fullan (2001), “the litmus test of... -
Case Study: Continuum of Services
About This Case: As principal, it is the school leader’s obligation to ensure that all students receive access to a quality education. Students... -
Case Study: The Canary in the Data Mine
About This Case: Effective school leaders actively cultivate, support, and develop other leaders within the organization, modeling trust, competency,... -
Case Study: Supporting All Students
About This Case: School leadership is second only to teaching in its impact on student learning. High-quality school leaders make a difference... -
Case Study: Technology and the School Climate
About This Case: Many teachers continue to have difficulty integrating technology into classroom learning. Despite the fact that novice teachers... -
Case Study: Implementing an Instructional Plan
About this case: In our current educational landscape, leaders are expected to model practices and behaviors to assist educators in enhancing... -
Case Study: The Suspected Students
About This Case: The fostering of an effective school culture; creating strong lines of communication; and employing ethical decision-making... -
Case Study: The Shady Substitute
About This Case: The fostering of an effective school culture; creating strong lines of communication; and employing ethical decision-making... -
Case Study: The Classified Claims
About This Case: The fostering of an effective school culture; creating strong lines of communication; and employing ethical decision-making... -
Case Study: The Abuse Allegation
About This Case: The fostering of an effective school culture; creating strong lines of communication; and employing ethical decision-making... -
Case Study: Driving Miss Jacobs
About This Case: Given the litigious nature of our society and the current educational landscape, leaders are expected to know and adhere to... -
Case Study: What Fits the Teaching Bill?
About This Case: In an era of Race to the Top, it is increasingly clear that educational leaders at all levels must be more than administrators.... -
Case Study: The Facebook Predicament
About This Case: Educational leadership research is replete with guidance regarding ethical decision-making and organizational leadership practice.... -
Case Study: Developing Professional Development the Tech Way
About This Case: Research is replete with evidence demonstrating that greater collaboration will foster collegial trust, enhance job satisfaction,... -
Case Study: The Principled Principal
About This Case: In our current educational landscape, leaders are expected to formulate and examine their own professional codes of ethics,... -
Case Study Assessment Library
The ASAP Case Study Assessment Library is a package containing all 16 of the ASAP Case Studies. Titles include: The Principled Principal Developing... -
InBasket: Professional & Ethical Behaviour
The InBasket for Professional and Ethical Behaviour simulates the issues faced by a busy principal each day while working to maintain a sense... -
InBasket: Shared Vision
The Shared Vision InBasket simulates the issues faced by a busy principal each day while working continuously to create, sustain and evolve... -
InBasket: Diversity
The Diversity InBasket simulates the issues that face a busy principal each day while interacting with the broader school community in a diversity-enhanced... -
InBasket: Community & Parent Relationships
The Community & Parent Relationships InBasket simulates the issues that face a busy principal each day while interacting with the broader... -
InBasket: Decision Making & Prioritization
The Decision Making & Prioritization InBasket simulates the issues that face a busy principal each day. Key characteristics of effective... -
Educational Leadership Assessment
The Educational Leadership Assessment (ELA) is a set of multiple choice tests based on the dimensions of educational leadership. The assessment...
ASAP Assessments
ASAP Assessments can be used to identify leadership development needs of aspiring and existing school leaders. They can be used to develop professional learning plans or as activities for leadership cohorts.
Click on each assessment below to learn more and enroll.
ASAP Course Modules
Once the leadership needs of administrative candidates have been identified, the ASAP Modules provide high-quality, interactive learning to increase the participant's knowledge and skills. ASAP Modules qualify for Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits in many jurisdictions. There are 20 course modules directly correlated to the 2015 ISLLC standards, and meeting or exceeding the provincial standards in your jurisdiction.
Click on the module titles below to learn more and enroll.
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Course: School Entry Planning
This course module assists new principals, and principals who are changing schools, in being fully prepared for their new leadership role,... -
Course: Continuous School Improvement
An effective educational leader promotes the success of every student by ensuring the development of a culture of continuous school improvement.... -
Course: Transformational Leadership
In education, transformational leaders go beyond the implementation of change. They become driving forces, empowering people and generating... -
Course: Professional & Ethical Behaviour
Ethical leadership is the demonstration of appropriate conduct through personal actions and relationships and the promotion of such conduct... -
Course: Decision Making & Prioritization
An effective school leader must efficiently prioritize the myriad tasks, decisions and activities that occur in the daily life of a school,... -
Course: Operational Leadership
This course module examines the managerial aspects of leadership and the significance of efficiency, preparedness, and effectiveness in managing... -
Course: The Skilled Communicator
This course module provides fundamental information, vital strategies, and opportunities to practice effective communication. The module addresses... -
Course: Community & Parent Relationships
This course module provides strategies and best practices for guiding parent involvement and developing and sustaining meaningful relationships... -
Course: Instructional Leadership
This course module is a guide to independent and collaborative strategies and activities that promote effective instructional leadership. An... -
Course: Building Instructional Capacity
Instructional capacity can be described as the quantity and quality of resources provided to the school to ensure high quality instruction... -
Course: Community in the Classroom
This course module focuses on recommended classroom management procedures and routines that help to develop relationships and build community.... -
Course: Diversity
Diversity crosses through and impacts all of the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders. As an element common to all aspects of leadership... -
Course: Collaborative School Culture
The learning environment is made richer through collaboration, community, collegiality, celebration and recognition. Schools and districts... -
Course: Team Building
This course module provides information and describes skills needed for teaming to make a difference at the school site. Effective school teams... -
Course: Staff Development
Ensuring that well-qualified personnel exist in every classroom is a guiding principle in the life of a school and the purpose of staff development.... -
Course: Assessment & Evaluation
Assessment plays a major role in how students learn, their motivation to learn, and how teachers teach. Assessment is embedded in the learning... -
Course: Using Data for Teaching & Learning
This course module guides the school leader in effective use and analysis of data to improve student achievement, enhancing skills as an instructional... -
Course: Shared Vision
This course module provides practical strategies to assist school leaders in creating a learning community that will shape a school’s...
ASAP Workbooks
ASAP® Workbooks are available for professional development and school leadership programs for K-12 educators. Each workbook consists of four chapters of study and activities, which can be broken out weekly or monthly, culminating with a project or presentation to be shared at a group learning event. The ASAP Workbooks are aligned with the requirements of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) and provincial standards. View the ASAP Workbook Implementation Guide to discover how you can use the Workbooks with your leadership cohorts.
Click on the Workbook titles below to learn more.
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Workbook: Using Student Achievement Data
The use of data is critical in determining areas where school improvement is needed. Data-driven decision making involves the school community... -
Workbook: Building Community in the Classroom
An effective leader focuses on recommended classroom management procedures and routines by developing relationships and building community.... -
Workbook: Best Practices for Mathematics
The most effective leadership style for school improvement is instructional leadership (Robinson, Lloyd, and Rowe, 2008), and in order to improve... -
Workbook: Best Practices for Literacy
Literacy in K-12 education refers predominantly to the language literacy areas of reading and writing. A person with language literacy is able... -
Workbook: Using Technology for Instructional Purposes
Information and Communications Technology (ICT), in the realm of education, is a powerful agent for educational and social change. Using a... -
Workbook: Team Building
An effective leader creates a safe and efficient learning environment that supports effective school organization, operations, and resource... -
Workbook: The Ethical Educator
An effective leader acts with integrity, fairness and honesty in an ethical manner. An ethical leader is one who can contribute to the school... -
Workbook: Shaping a Collaborative School Culture
An effective leader focuses on continuous improvement by promoting and motivating a positive school culture that has a clearly understood relationship... -
Workbook: Faculty Development
An effective leader creates a safe and efficient learning environment that supports effective school organization, operations, and resource... -
Workbook: Essentials of Instructional Leadership
In your role as an instructional leader, you will foster excellence in teaching and learning by assisting teachers to create an active learning... -
Workbook: Entering a School as a New Principal
This workbook takes you through the steps on how to enter the school as a new principal, allowing for a smooth transition as leader. The workbook... -
Workbook: Diversity
An effective leader understands, responds to, and influences the social and cultural relationships in the classroom, school, and community.... -
Workbook: Decision Making Methods
An effective leader demonstrates critical thinking, decision making, and problem solving within the context of personal integrity and ethical... -
Workbook: Creating a Learning Community
An effective leader leads the development and implementation of a vision for learning that is supported by the school community. This workbook... -
Workbook Library
The ASAP Workbook Library is a package containing all 14 of the ASAP Workbooks. Titles include: ASAP® Workbooks are available for professional...