Alaskan Resources
Look for the "Festival of Ideas" coming soon to this website! The "Festival of Ideas," submitted by educators participating in ASDN's Alaska Summer Leadership Institute (ASLI), is a compilation of emerging best practices currently being implemented in Alaskan schools. The "Festival of Ideas" offers examples of Alaskan school initiatives which inform educators about frameworks for improving student learning and organizational performance; strategies that transform learning and performance; and lateral capacity building opportunities that.....
Leadership Resources
Alaska State System of Support (SSOS) Operations Manual 2010-11
Alaska State System of Support (SSOS) Operations Manual,
Building Local Capacity, 2010‐2011
The Alaska SSOS's mission is to support districts as they build their capacity to implement sustainable school improvement strategies with fidelity. Authority for developing and implementing a system of support for districts and schools comes from both State and Federal law. This document provides an overview of the SSOS program and resources that are available to districts and schools in Alaska.
"Making Alaska More Competitive by Preparing Citizens for College and Career" (Phipps)
One major component of the Alaska Education Plan is to ensure that all high school students are career- and college-ready. Alaska is basing its plan for career and college readiness on “Making Alaska More Competitive by Preparing Citizens for College and Career,” a report from the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education.
Alaska Self-Study Tool
The Self-Study Tool (SST) was developed to help schools conduct an internal review as part of their school improvement effort. The SST materials are based on the Instructional Audit Tool that has been used throughout Alaska to conduct on-site school audits by external teams of educators. The SST process provides teams from a school community an opportunity to engage in discussion and evidence-based inquiry. It is not intended to be the basis for evaluation or for making comparisons across schools. The end product is not a score, but the.....
State of Alaska Standards, GLE's, and Formative Assessment
This links to the State of Alaska "Standards" web page which contains the AK Content and Performance Standards, GLE's, Formative Assessments, and more important information related to AK State Standards and Performance.
Asking the Right Questions: A School Change Toolkit
Guiding School Change through Inquiry: Systemic Reform Support System
This site provides information about systems theory and describes an effective way to view school systems - by looking at them as consisting of three domains. Using this perspective can help you simplify the complexity of school systems, adopt multiple ways of viewing them, and better understand the interconnectivity of their various parts.
How Do Districts Support Schools to Meet AYP?
For the most part, districts can only meet AYP if their schools meet AYP. Consequently, district leadership needs to keep a sharp focus on the student achievement targets, set clear expectations for all schools, build the capacity of instructional leaders to monitor student progress, and hold all schools accountable for knowing where their students are in relation to the content standards and for creating appropriate interventions for students and schools not succeeding.
Rating Sheet for Administrators to Assess Their Progress Towards Meeting Alaska’s Administrators' Standards
This is a rating sheet based on the ten Standards for Alaska's Administrators that gives administrators an opportunity to review their progress towards meeting these standards. Courtesy of AACP, Gary Whiteley, Project Director
Getting the School Year Started in Rural Alaska: Some tips from an experienced “bush” principal.
Although this is not a comprehensive list, it is hoped that the following suggestions will help you get off to a good start. First impressions are very important and your first few days in the community and school may set the tone for possibly the rest of the year. These are written for someone new to the principalship in mind as well as new to the “bush.” Courtesy of the AACP, Gary Whiteley, Project Director
Publications for Alaska Standards for Culturally Responsive Schools
The following standards have been developed by Alaska Native educators to provide a way for schools and communities to examine the extent to which they are attending to the educational and cultural well being of the students in their care. These "cultural standards" are predicated on the belief that a firm grounding in the heritage language and culture indigenous to a particular place is a fundamental prerequisite for the development of culturally-healthy students and communities associated with that place, and thus is an essential ingredient.....
