Diocesan Educational Leadership & Service
Four services every Diocesan School Office must offer:
Four services every Diocesan School Office must offer:
- Offer Consultative advice regarding personnel matters
- Offer Consultative advice regarding diocesan policies and guidelines
- Offer Consultative advice regarding best Catholic educational practices
- Be present at local events/celebrations
- Availability
- Expertise
- Collaborative Leadership-style
- Credibility from Colleagues in the field
Eight Opportunities/Necessities • The Diocesan Leader of Education should:
- Create a Vital/Meaningful Board of Education with by-laws that reflect best practices; with meetings that result in actionable and measurable goals; and is comprised of committed/Catholic members that possess the following areas of expertise:
- Building and Construction
- Finance
- Technology
- Real Estate and Property Management
- Marketing / Advertising
- Education
- Publishing/Media Communications
- Parent/Civic Leadership
- Theological & Religious Formation
- Decentralize Professional Growth
- Resources for professional growth should be allocated to local schools
- Partnerships with NCEA/ISTE/ASCD/CCCB etc. should be formalized at the diocesan level and provided to schools
- Professional resource sharing among colleagues should be promoted, incentivized and coordinated between schools
- Expand of Social Media Use
- Curation of content
- Formation of Professional Learning Networks
- Branding of Mission
- Communication of Message
- Centralize the availability of goods and services
- Economy of scale with vendors
- Leverage of numbers for purchases educational publications/technology
- Form Business/Educational Partnerships
- Silicon Valley and Technology companies
- Local or regional Businesses
- Universities and Colleges committed to Catholic education
- Publishing/Media corporations
- Re-vision compensation and evaluation models to be based on performance
- Limit Diocesan-wide school initiatives
- 1-2 initiative introduced over a period of 3 years.
- 3-year window of implementation (plan/execute/evaluate/revise)
- Report directly to the Bishop.
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