flection, inquiry, and analysis of teaching and learning use resources outside of the school to maintain currency with best practices dedicate formal time to implement professional development apply the skills, practices, and ideas gained in order to improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment. 5. School leaders regularly use research-based evaluation and supervision processes that focus on improved student learning. 6. The organization of time supports research-based instruction, professional collaboration among teachers, and the learning needs of all students. 7. Student load and class size enable teachers to meet the learning needs of individual students. 8. The principal, working with other building leaders, provides instructional leadership that is rooted in the school s core values, beliefs, and learning expectations. 9. Teachers, students, and parents are involved in meaningful and defined roles in decision-making that promote responsibility and ownership. 10. Teachers exercise initiative and leadership essential to the improvement of the school and to increase students engagement in learning. 11. The school board, superintendent, and principal are collaborative, reflective, and constructive in achieving the school s 21 st century learning expectations. 12. The school board and superintendent provide the principal with sufficient decision-making authority to lead the school.
9 Support Standard 6 School Resources for Learning Student learning and well-being are dependent upon adequate and appropriate support. The school is responsible for providing an effective range of coordinated programs and services. These resources enhance and improve student learning and well-being and support the school's core values and beliefs. Student support services enable each student to achieve the school's 21 st century learning expectations. 1. The school has timely, coordinated, and directive intervention strategies for all students, including identified and at-risk students, that support each student s achievement of the school s 21 st century learning expectations. 2. The school provides information to families, especially to those most in need, about available student support services. 3. Support services staff use technology to deliver an effective range of coordinated services for each student. 4. School counseling services have an adequate number of certified/licensed personnel and support staff who: deliver a written, developmental program meet regularly with students to provide personal, academic, career, and college counseling engage in individual and group meetings with all students deliver collaborative outreach and referral to community and area mental health agencies and social service providers use ongoing, relevant assessment data, including feedback from the school community, to improve services and ensure each student achieves the school s 21 st century learning expectations. 5. The school's health services have an adequate number of certified/licensed personnel and support staff who: provide preventative health services and direct intervention services use an appropriate referral process conduct ongoing student health assessments use ongoing, relevant assessment data, including feedback from the school community, to improve services and ensure each student achieves the school s 21 st century learning expectations. 6. Library/media services are integrated into curriculum and instructional practices and have an adequate number of certified/licensed personnel and support staff who: are actively engaged in the implementation of the school's curriculum provide a wide range of materials, technologies, and other information services in support of the school's curriculum ensure that the facility is available and staffed for students and teachers before, during, and after school are responsive to students' interests and needs in order to support independent learning conduct ongoing assessment using relevant data, including feedback from the school community, to improve services and ensure each student achieves the scho