An effective 21st century school administrator has the following qualities: 1. They have a vision for preparing students with 21st century skills and drive initiatives to help teachers achieve this goal. 2. They set high standards for instruction and assessment, create professional learning communities, and ensure curriculum alignment. 3. They focus on developing a positive school culture with teacher empowerment and effective communication. 4. They allocate resources to support district goals, communicate the mission/vision, and use data to improve conditions for staff.

1. What Does a 21st Century School Administrator Look Like?

2. The Seven Standards of Executive Leadership and Their Connection

3. Standard 1: Strategic Leadership Superintendents create conditions that result in strategically re-imaging the district’s vision, mission, and goals to ensure that every student graduates from high school, is globally competitive for work and postsecondary education and prepared for life in the 21 st century.

4. An effective 21st century administrator..... has a vision of the changing world in the 21st century and is able to share this vision and prepare children to enter it. adapts to change and considers new ways to accomplish tasks and is comfortable with changing implementation processes. takes initiatives to help students acquire 21st century skills and becomes the driving force behind these initiatives. helps teachers set high, concrete goals for students to meet and expects all students to meet them. maintains and executes an elected School Improvement Team which creates a School Improvement Plan to reach set goals.

7. Standard 3:Cultural Leadership Superintendents understand and act on the important role a system's culture has in the exemplary performance of all schools. While supporting and valuing the history, traditions, and norms of the district and community, a superintendent must be able to "reculture" the district.

9. Standard 4 : Human Resource Leadership The superintendent ensures that the district is a professional learning community with processes and systems in place that result in the recruitment, induction, support, evaluation, development and retention of a high-performing, diverse staff. He or she provides for results-oriented professional development that is aligned with identified 21 st century curricular, instructional, and assessment needs, is connected to district improvement goals, and is differentiated based on staff needs .

11. Standard 5: Managerial Leadership Superintendents ensure that the district has processes and systems in place for budgeting, staffing, problem solving, communicating expectations, and scheduling that organize the work of the district and give priority to student learning and safety.

13. Recorded Voicethread

16. Resources: The 21st Century Administrator: Embracing Change Skills for Effective 21st Century School Leaders North Carolina Standards for Superintendents