Dear Colleagues,
As we continue on the five-year professional development cycle for administrators and teachers, it is important to reflect on some of the fundamentals of Leading Learning, the training currently taking place, and the training we have accomplished thus far. It is our hope that you will use the contents of Leading Learning Bulletins to help you assess your own progress toward leading a standards-based school and in planning the kind of collaborative activities necessary to implement standards-based best practices.

Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISSLC) Standards
As you know, the 1996 ISSLC standards have been adopted by DoDEA as the professional standards for all school leaders and are fundamental to Leading Learning. The standards define, in broad terms, the knowledge, dispositions and performances necessary to meet the six leadership standards. In reviewing the ISSLC standards you will notice the emphasis on all students. Those six standards are summarized below.

•	Standard 1: A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by the school community.
•	Standards 2: A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth.
•	Standard 3: A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by ensuring management of the organization, operations, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment.
•	Standard 4: A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by collaborating with families and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources.
•	Standard 5: A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner.
•	Standard 6: A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by understanding, responding to, and influencing the larger political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context.