ISLLC 2008
The Council of the Chief State School Officers is pleased to share the recently revised and approved national standards for educational leadership policy, which most of you have come to know over the years as the “ISLLC1 Standards.”
The ISLLC Standards have helped guide leadership policy and practice in more than 40 states since they were first released in 1996 by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). The idea then, as now, was to give policymakers and education leaders a common vision and goals for how to improve student achievement through better educational leadership.
We appreciate the help and participation of CCSSO’s State Consortium on Education Leadership and the NPBEA member organizations over the past two years in creating the updated ISLLC 2008 standards.
“These policy standards are the foundation to building a comprehensive and cohesive leadership system that effectively recruits, supports, retains, and rewards high-quality leaders,” notes Gene Wilhoit, executive director of CCSSO, the national organization that is coordinating the release of the standards. “They give state and district leaders a guide for what to consider in gauging quality and monitoring and supporting improvement in educational leadership.”
To provide additional information and guidance, CCSSO is developing a comprehensive publication that will include the standards, explain the research behind the revisions, and provide other material explaining how the policy standards can be used. The publication will be distributed in the spring of 2008 and will be posted on this site when it is ready for dissemination.
ISLLC 1996
The original ISLLC Standards for School Leaders published in 1996 are still available free of charge as a pdf file at http://www.ccsso.org/content/pdfs/isllcstd.pdf. Hard copies of the 1996 ISLLC standards are no longer available from CCSSO.
Click here to access citation and historical information to be used when referencing the 1996 ISLLC Standards for School Leaders.
1 Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium
