A Collaborative Model for Continuous Improvement and Accreditation Preparation Using Leadership-Focused Coaching

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 8
  In Roundtable Session: Leadership Preparation: Continuing to Improve

Abstract

This paper describes one principal preparation program’s approach to continuous improvement and accreditation preparation using Leadership-Focused Coaching (LFC) as a framework. Over two years, a team of colleagues worked to improve a fully online program by using available program and course-level data, as well as gathering survey data from stakeholders. Current students, recent graduates, alumni, and employers were asked to provide feedback in a variety of ways, including online surveys, discussions with the advisory council, completion of an extensive self-study, email requests to district leaders, and mid-term and end-of-term anonymous questionnaires. The team made data-driven decisions and determined areas in need of redesign and worked in collaboration with course developers and designers to make such changes in all courses.

Authors

• Julie A. Gray, University of West Florida

• Aneta Hogan Walker, University of West Florida