The District Management Council helps districts bring out the best in people: from identifying, recruiting and hiring the most talented teachers and staff, to inducting, developing and retaining the best people.
Focus Areas
Teacher Effectiveness/Evaluation
Teacher effectiveness provides an opportunity for districts to rethink how they can improve and support teacher performance from the day a teacher is hired to the day they leave the district. Read More
Differentiated Pay/Pay for Performance
Recent focus on improving teacher effectiveness has increased interest in alternative compensation systems as a way to enhance the appeal of teaching careers, retain effective educators, and boost effectiveness. Read More
High-Performance Teams
High performance teams are ready to take on new challenges and achieve significant results. By setting the context and building the structure for such teams to excel, district leaders can develop highly adaptive, innovative and successful organizations. Read More
Leadership Development
Leadership and management are the most important drivers of district effectiveness. Districts should support their aspiring leaders to continuously learn new skills while at the same time producing real results for the organization. Read More
Principal Effectiveness/Evaluation
Principal effectiveness is a critical factor in driving student achievement that must be managed systemically. To improve principal effectiveness districts must establish clear expectations and build aligned systems of recruitment, training, compensation, and evaluation. Read More
Career Development and Succession Planning
Career Development and Succession Planning is a strategic approach to leadership development. Succession planning provides an opportunity to clearly link the district’s strategic planning objectives to the development of a cadre of leaders who can execute them. Read More
Implementation Support
Grand, systemic strategies must ultimately yield to practical, day-to-day execution. An orientation toward action and results underpins all of DMC’s services. But, even when a focus on execution helps to shape the initial design of a strategy, it can still be critical to dedicate a phase of work explicitly to implementation. An implementation phase reaches toward the ultimate purpose of any strategic plan: to improve outcomes for children. Read More
