Quick Reference Guide for Principal Compass™

Principal Compass™ Program Description

Pearson and ASCDhave joined forces to create Principal Compass™ — the only online leadership program for 21st Century K-12 schools that directly connects what happens in the principal’s office to success in the classroom.

This powerful, new, cloud-based program features the highly acclaimed research-based framework forprincipal growth and development established by Dr. Robert Marzano. It is the only online professional development tool of its kind that is aligned to the 5 domains and 24 categories of Dr. Marzano’s new evidence-based rubric, building upon nearly five decades of study around effective teaching and learning.

By improving the quality of differentiated professional development, and by providing proven and successful strategies for team building and distributed leadership models,Principal Compass™systematically helps to increase effective leadership. And as a result,it provides a powerful tool to impact teacher performance and grow student achievement at the school and district level.

Principal Compass™Key Strengths:

  • 50+ online modules build the competencies of highly effective school leaders.
  • School-based case studies provide the authentic voice of thepractitioner.
  • Problem-based approach encourages immediate application in the school.
  • On-site coaching and team development meet principals and administrative teams where the issues occur—in the school building.
  • Exclusive partnerships with acclaimed authors such as Michael Fullan, Rick Stiggins, Jon Saphier, and Lyle Kirtman, among other notable practitioners in the field.
  • 24/7 online-access provides flexibility.

Principal Compass™ Features

  • Uses the same underlying technology that drives Teacher Compass™
  • Analyzes leadership style and training needs
  • Targets support through online and in-personprofessional development, coaching, team, and distributed leadership development
  • Benchmarks principals and their teams’ self-assessment data against that of more than 300 high-performing principals
  • Integrates more than 3,000 classroom and practitioner videos to help develop high-performing teams
  • Correlates to the ISLLC (Interstate School Licensure Consortium) Standards and Skills
  • Monitors progress and provides actionable tools for additional support
  • Customizableto add personal and district-specific goals and works alongside other leadership frameworks

30-Second Pitch

We know that in order to deliver sustained student achievement, and school wide success, districts must depend upon, and cultivate highly effective teachers and school leaders.

But how can districts find an integrated and scalable way to provide customizable professional growth tools, team and distributed leadership coaching, and continuous differentiated professional development for its school leadership teams?

Through our unique partnership with ASCD and Dr. Robert Marzano, the newPrincipal Compass™ brings a focused solution to providing researched-based, real-time, constructive support to the leadership teams within your district. Utilizing the software technology from Johns Hopkins University and the Marzano Principal Framework for linking leadership -- to teaching -- to student performance, Principal Compass™provides a complete principal professional development systemto build the competencies of effective school leadership. Let me show you how our system works….

Probing Questions

  • How integrated are your evaluation systems for educator effectiveness?
  • How do you help build leadership skills over the course of time?
  • How do you ensure that principals are provided consistent, timely, and quality feedback?
  • How are you customizing professional development for principal recertification?
  • What framework or standards are you using for principal evaluation?

Target Audience

Grades K-12

District titles include:

  • Superintendents
  • Assistant Superintendents
  • Curriculum Supervisors
  • Principals
  • HR Directors
  • Accountability Directors

Customer Profile

Target customers are medium and large districts with funding from RTTT for educator effectiveness. Principal Compass provides a way for these districts to ensure that their district goals are being met across leadership teams.

Principal Compass™ Pricing Information

Building Pricing

Principal Compass for administrative use: $4800 per building

•Includes set up and principal access to Teacher Compass Suite™

•No minimums on per building users

Additional option

•Teacher Compass for individual teacher use: $2500 per building

Single User Pricing

•Principal Compass: $800 per administrator

•Teacher Compass Observe: $45 per teacher

•Teacher Compass PD: $50 per teacher

•Teacher Compass Suite: $85 per teacher

Set Up Fee

$2500 set up fee (waived for any order above $4800)

Includes the creation of a client account, customization of labels (if applicable), configuration of roles, loading of rosters and configuration of district and/or building level professional development goals (if applicable).

Definitions

  • Principal Compass is designed for administrator use only. It comes with Teacher Compass Observe loaded with the Marzano Leadership Framework, ASCD leadership modules and over 3000 videos, tutorials and documents for instruction.
  • Teacher Compass Observe is designed for teacher observation/evaluation. It is software that streamlines the observation/evaluation process and provides rich, real-time reports. Teacher Compass Observe is licensed per teacher.
  • Teacher Compass PD is designed for teachers to use for on-demand professional development. It is a collaborative library of over 3000 videos, tutorials and documents on instruction. Teacher Compass PD is licensed per-teacher.
  • Teacher Compass Suite is the combination of Teacher Compass Observe and PD for teachers. Using the suite, observers can automatically assign professional development content to teachers during the observation process

Training Options for Principal Compass

Webinar format: $1500

  • Three (3) separate 1-hour webinars are provided for up to 10 participants

Face-to-face Format: $3500

  • A one-day seminar is provided for up to 10 participants

Up Sell and Cross Promotion Opportunities

Principal Compass™launches as a compelling new product within Pearson's Compass Suite™, which includes Teacher Compass Observe™, an online program for managing classroom observations and guiding teachers to personalized professional development; Teacher Compass PD™, engaging teachers in personalized, ongoing training, reflection, and collaboration. Principal Compass™ can be bundled with any Compass Suite Product or Pearson Professional Development program.

Technical Requirements

Operating Systems: Macintosh OS X; Apple iOS; Windows XP, Vista; Linux

World Wide Web Browsers: Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox 3+, Safari 3+, Safari 3+ (iPad)

Processor: Windows: Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz, AMD Athlon™ 600MHz or faster processor (or equivalent)

Macintosh:PowerPC® G3 500MHz or faster processor Intel Core™ Duo 1.33GHz or faster processor

Linux: Modern processor (800MHz or faster)

RAM: 256 MB Ram

Competitors

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(Dr. Marzano’s Rubric)

Research base for Principal Compass™

The Marzano Research Laboratory and Dr. Robert Marzano developed The Marzano School Administrator Evaluation System, which reflects the extensive study of four primary documents, including: (1) the Wallace Foundation study (Louis, Leithwood, Wahlstrom, & Anderson, 2010, (2) the study of what woks in Oklahoma schools (Marzano Research Laboratory, 2011), (3) the Marzano, Waters and McNulty (2005) meta-analysis of school leadership, and (4) the Marzano (2003) study of effective schooling.

These research documents were used to formulating the Marzano Framework and accompanying rubric of 24 categories of principal actions and behaviors identified. These categories were then organized into five domains: (1) a data-driven focus on student achievement, (2) continuous improvement of instruction, (3) a guaranteed and viable curriculum, (4) cooperation and collaboration, and (5) school climate.

Pearson Professional Development

Pearson's research-based professional development programs are proven to help schools and districts grow student achievement by:

•Ensuring Fidelity of Implementation for Pearson's research-based curricula.

•Learning and applying Evidence-Based Teaching Strategies.

•Building Sustainable Instructional Capacity for long-term success.

At Pearson, we define Educator Effectiveness as the purposeful demonstration of best practices in five key areas that work toward improving student performance:

•Instructional planning

•Classroom management

•Assessment for learning

•Setting a positive learning environment

•Instructional delivery

Our professional development team supports that endeavor by helping teachers become sustained learners, honing their content and pedagogical knowledge through a cycle of continuous improvement that’s focused on their individual needs.