This agreement is between Clay County District Schools and National Center on Education and the Economy to provide professional learning for distinguished school and district leaders through the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) Program.  

NISL is the most widely used school leadership curriculum in the country, allowing districts to empower leaders to drive strategic, systemic improvements in their schools. District and School leaders gain the skills, tools and knowledge necessary to become true instructional leaders and apply them through action learning, change management, and distributed leadership.

NISL will equip school leaders with the skills, knowledge and tools to create strategies for raising school performance, driving effective teaching and supporting student learning through structures and incentives, aligning instructional systems, and implementing high-performance management structures that drive growth.

School and district leaders are in need of high quality learning opportunities to help them continue to grow in their instructional leadership. This is important because school leaders play a significant role in fostering high levels of student achievement, and strengthening the leadership foundation can have long lasting effects on student achievement.  After going through this nationally recognized program, district and school leaders will be better equipped to engage in strategic leadership to increase student performance and drive growth throughout the district.

This program was approved at the March board agenda with a contract for 25 participants.  However, only 20 leaders (principals and district leaders) will be participating, so the contract has been adjusted to reflect the change in participants and a decrease in the cost.  No other changes have been made to the contract.

District and school leaders who go through this program will have a deep understanding of how to drive strategic, systemic improvements in schools and throughout the district.  They will be able to implement action steps consistent with strong instructional leadership and develop a distributed leadership approach to fostering growth for teachers and students through collaborative learning cultures.

Goal 5: Develop and support great educators, support personnel, and leaders.   

Strategy 5.2: Provide ongoing training and support for teachers, support staff, and leaders.

That the Clay County School Board approve the agreement between Clay County District Schools and the National Center on Education and the Economy’s National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) Program.