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The Texas Strategic Leadership (TSL) program is dedicated to strengthening leadership capacity across districts, empowering leaders to align systems and implement high-impact strategies that ultimately improve student outcomes.
TSL leverages the Effective District Framework to connect district-level systems to campus-level execution, ensuring that every student benefits from a rigorous and supportive learning experience driven by aligned systems at every level.
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School Districts participating in the TSL Pilot will partner with TSL Executive Coaches and TSL Performance Management Specialists to develop
  • Landscape Analysis that takes a picture in time of the current state of the district.
  • A Strategic Plan with prioritized strategies to implement and monitor over a three to five year period.
  • A system of aligned processes to enhance the student experience and performance manage the systems and prioritized strategies.
  • Stakeholder engagement tools to develop a district approved student experience.
Principles for Effective District Planning
  • We must center on the student experience.
  • We must think and align at the systems level.
  • We must ruthlessly prioritize our biggest bets.
  • We must engage and invest in our stakeholders.
  • We must continuously performance manage.
Core Ideas of Systems Leadership and Alignment
  • To lead an institution, you must understand the institution.  District leaders will first need to see their present system to lead towards the envisioned student experience.
  • Student outcomes are driven by a rigorous, enriching student experience.  District leaders will "backward design" and align all critical systems to their envisioned student experience.
  • Systems alignment drives the student experience to come to fruition.  The student experience is delivered at the campus-level, which requires aligned campus-level systems, which are driven and supported by aligned district-level systems.
"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

~Jack Welch
Year One...
Year ONE
Year Two...
Year Two
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