Improving College & Career Readiness
Leadership & Equity Strand
District Level
Prince George’s County, MD
Overview
Based on a case in Prince George’s County, MD, this module’s simulation tasks leaders with addressing long-standing issues of equity across the community’s racial and language divides. Leaders will collaborate to reform college and career readiness programs for this urban district while also managing the media and contemplating issues of grant management.
Key Skills Developed:
- Defining College & Career Readiness (Equity Lens)
- Planning for Grant Funding (Strategic Thinking)
- Collaborative Decision-Making
Related Readings
- Participant Case Overview Module 004 College Career Readiness
- Pedagogies and Practices in Multilingual Classrooms: Singularities in Pluralities (Garcia & Sylvan, 2011)
- Newcomer High School Studies as an Asset: The Internationals Approach (Sylvan, 2013)
Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (ISLLC 2015)
- 1) Mission, Vision, and Core Values
- 3) Equity and Cultural Responsiveness
- 4) Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
- 9) Operations and Management
Simulation Experience on May 20, 2016
Improving College & Career Readiness in Prince George’s County, MD
During the colloquium teams will enter a simulation experience:
Your school district, Prince George’s County Public Schools, is working to create cutting edge college and career readiness programming for high school students, even within a context of budget shortfalls in the district.
You are now serving as a college and career advisory team for the Superintendent to support decision-making with regard to how the district leverages its financial resources to support college and career readiness for all students in the district. Within your team, you will each take on one role for the duration of the simulation. These are fictitious roles; please bring your past experiences in education and education leadership with you into the role as well as what you have learned about the context in Prince George’s County, MD.
Simulation Roles
- Dr. Alicia Alvarez, Superintendent and group leader of the team during the simulation experience
- Margarita Chavez, Parent Association President and time keeper of the team during the simulation experience
- Derek Williams, NAACP Chapter Leader and recorder for the team during the simulation experience
- Dr. Susan Whiting, University Community Schools Director and team member
- High School Principal and team member
After allocating roles in your team, proceed through this case, making critical leadership decisions to support college and career readiness programming for all students in the district, given the existing financial constraints. At the end of your simulation experience, you will be asked to revisit your team’s decision-making process and create a short presentation to summarize your group’s process, decision-making experiences, and learnings for the case.
Registered participants will begin their collaborative multimedia case experience at Teachers College Columbia University on May 20, 2016 (4-7 pm) in Zankel Building 212C. [Event Map]
The simulation experience takes the real urban district context as the starting point for participants’ learning experiences. If you are interested in attending any of our colloquium and multimedia case experience sessions this spring hosted by the Urban Education Leaders Collaborative at Teachers College Columbia University, please register for tickets.
Future UELC spring sessions will be held on:
- Saturday, May 21 – Programming for Multilingual Learners — Building Leader Institute (8 am – 12 pm)
- Friday, June 10 – Innovation for Teacher Retention — Colloquium Series (4-7 pm)
- Saturday, June 11 – Teacher Leadership — Building Leader Institute (8 am – 12 pm)
- Wednesday-Friday, July 27-29, 2016 – Summer Building Leader Conference with On Point Leadership
