Resource is committed to building leadership capacity for administrators and teacher leaders in Central Minnesota by providing learning and leadership opportunities to support school improvement processes and the emergent needs of staff as they meet the needs of all students. Job-embedded, high quality professional development ensures that what is learned through Resource will be directly applied in engaging classrooms
to support student achievement.
Program Contacts:
Resource will serve you in the following ways:
- Assist district and school teams in the development, implementation, and on-going review and refinement of school improvement plans while serving as a liaison between District and School Leadership Teams and MDE.
- Work with district and school teams to identify and analyze data and facilitate team dialogue.
- Provide high quality professional development to meet the needs of district and school teams.
- Provide customized online learning and face-to-face support for PLCs, mentors, principals, and instructional leaders.
Key features of Resource's high quality professional development include:
- Train-the-trainer models of job-embedded professional development.
- Build internal leadership capacity
- Assessment and data analysis to drive a school's response to instruction and interventions.
- Standards-based emphasis.
- Active learning strategies for all.
The mission of Resource cohorts is to provide information and classroom strategies that will be shared and implemented so that participants will deepen understanding and build leadership capacity in our schools and districts. Research-based strategies and effective high quality professional development from the cohorts will be embedded in the School and District Improvement process. Progress monitoring of assessment data will be shared as administrative leaders and reading and math leaders support each other in school improvement efforts.
The Principals' Leadership Development engages administrators in meaningful discussions about how to lead the school improvement process. Topics include the following:
- Leadership for improved instruction and assessment practices to promote meaningful student engagement and increased student achievement.
- Using data to measure/monitor progress and celebrate success.
- Observational strategies for principals regarding research-based instructional practices.
- Creating high quality professional development for staff.
- Shared experiences of learning and leading within each school.
- Exploration of leadership topics to support all aspects of the school improvement process.
Join the Instructional Coaching (IC) Academy of Pacesetting Schools.
(Round 2 starting in January)
The IC Academy is an initiative sponsored by Resource Training & Solutions that is designed to help schools ramp up their systems of support by developing skilled instructional coaches in four areas: partnership, leadership, change, and instruction.
The IC Academy will jump start your team with job-embedded professional development customized for your school/district. It provides the organizational structure and communication channel to share the work of other pacesetting schools to promote widespread and dramatic impact.
By choosing to participate in the Academy, the school leaders express a desire to strive for excellence, and devote sufficient resources and attention to make a high-quality regional system of support a reality.
The focus of the Instructional Coaching Academy will make instruction the number one priority and create effective teachers and principals to support your existing initiatives.
We will do this by leveraging existing resources, both personnel and funding; of the district systems so that they can more effectively support improvement efforts.
The Math Science Teacher Academy focuses on Resource's collaboration with higher education and regional districts that use lesson study teams to plan lessons, deliver instruction, and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching strategies in relation to student thinking/reasoning. Full teams of teachers meet regularly to promote higher order thinking skills in math/science classrooms. Online support is available for all districts who desire to support their teachers/administrators with strategies to improve schools and the staff who serve their students.
Online Programs:
Online Principal/Teacher Leadership Courses
Online Learning for Students
4150 2nd Street South, Suite 550
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St. Cloud, MN 56301
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(888) 447-7032
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(320) 255-3236
