By Nazario Rodriguez Jr.
Horizon news staff

School principals and administrators yesterday started their five-day workshop at the Ming’s Restaurant of Palasia Hotel entitled "Planning, Management, Evaluation: The Principal Standards in Action with Dr. Sharon Camblin of Change Systems for Educators as resource speaker.
The training is set from March 26-30 and sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the Pacific Office of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Director Emery Wenty said that this is the first of several training for administrators made possible by the $100,000 grant from UNESCO.
Just recently, the MOE held a successful Education Awareness Week through the $95,000 grant from the Pacific Regional Initiative for the Delivery of basic EducationProject.
The course for the five-day workshop examines the roles and functions of educational leaders through the lens of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium and Palauan principal standards framed around real-world experiences in school leadership.
The course syllabus also noted that the ISLLC and Palauan principal standards are designed to capture what is essential about the role of school leaders –m what makes a difference in whether a school community can provide experiences that ensure all students succeed.
It also explained that by focusing on the essential aspects of leadership – defined in relation to student success – the standards are designed to help transform the profession of educational administration and the roles of school administrators.
The course is a practiced-centered, performance-based designed to support those teachers and administrators that have little access to leadership course work with focus on planning, management and evaluation.
Participants will be able to experience for themselves authentic teaching and learning, higher-order knowledge, substantive conversation and connections beyond their school setting.
They will analyze their own knowledge base and set professional goals for improvement and strengthen their calling to improve student learning.
They will gain leadership knowledge and skills to increase their personal capacity and confidence to serve successfully in demanding educational leadership roles in the areas of planning, management and evaluation.