Memphis City Schools (MCS) Abstract (MS Word)



|State: |TN |

|Organization: |Memphis City Schools (MCS) |

|Program Title: |MCS School Leadership Initiative |

|Program Contact: |Tommie McCarter |

| |901-416-6464 |

|PR-Award Number: |U363A100101 |

|First Year Funding: |$592,056.00 |

|Total Five Year Funding: |$3,052,692.00 |

|Program Partner(s): |New Leaders for New Schools |

Of the 209 public schools in Memphis, over 42% are failing to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). The Memphis City Schools (MCS) School Leadership Initiative represents a coordinated effort by the district and its strategic partners, including New Leaders for New Schools Memphis, to address ambitious student achievement targets by developing policies, supports, and contexts that foster and reward effective school leadership. This initiative will leverage and extend the district's recent investments in teacher quality by recruiting, developing, and supporting principals and assistant principals who demonstrate the capacity to effectively promote achievement in high-needs schools.

The MCS School Leadership Initiative consists of four strategic goals. First, the district will develop and adopt a set of evidence-based standards and competencies to define effective school leadership, as well as a principal evaluation system aligned with those competencies. Second, the district will continue to utilize two complementary pathways, the Urban Education Center Executive Leadership Program and the New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS) Aspiring Leaders Program, to identify, recruit, and prepare promising educators for school leadership, ensuring that at least 40% of these newly developed principals are placed in high-priority or target schools within MCS. Third, the initiative will use case studies of highly effective schools in and beyond Memphis, available through the NLNS Effective Practice Incentives Community (EPIC) Knowledge System, to create a professional development curriculum designed to train principals to conduct effective teacher observations and evaluations. Finally, led by a newly formed School Leadership Working Group, the district will develop and adopt a strategic and funding plan to reform principal compensation by linking base pay and incentives to student achievement as measured by the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS).

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