MEGHALAYA

JOURNEY OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

The Directorate of Educational Research and Training (DERT), Shillong was identified as the School Leadership Academy (SLA), Meghalaya by the Department of Education, Government of Meghalaya in 2017 with the faculty of DERT and DIETs as group members of the SLA. During the year 2021-22, both online and offline programmes were conducted for Heads of Schools/Principals of Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools. The participants were from the State of Meghalaya covering all districts from both urban and rural areas. After these programmes, all the participants were engaged with their home and school assignments via online mode. All these programmes were basically aimed at bringing together the Heads of Schools (HoS)/Principals under the same platform. The programme has also encouraged the HoS/Principals for transformational change of self, the teachers and the school at large. Some schools have constituted the Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) in their schools and even conducted a Parents-Teacher meet which is a part of PLCs. Moreover, some schools have started to implement the Learning Outcomes (LOs) and Teacher Self-Assessment Rubric (TSAR). These are some of the innovative reforms that the schools were able to experience post the training programme.