SCHOOL DISTRICT LEADER (SDL) EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Piaget's Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Children actively construct their understanding of the world
and go through four stages of cognitive development.
Jacobs - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅curriculum mapping
Calkins - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅writers workshop
Dufour - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Professional Learning Communities
Vygotsky - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅zone of proximal development
Gardner's - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅our abilities are best classified into eight independent Multiple
Intelligences, which include a broad range of skills beyond traditional school smarts
Skinner's - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Operant Conditioning Development consists of the pattern of
behavioral changes that are brought about by rewards and punishments
culture and learning - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅environment with a emphasis on learning and high
expectations for academic achievement
FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A federal law that regulates
the management of student records and disclosure of information from those records. The Act has its
own administrative enforcement mechanism.
SWOT analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a planning tool used to analyze an organization's strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
IB - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅rigorous curriculum program implemented in schools around the world.
Need- PD, international network, high level or rigor
, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Assessment and Accountability Systems;
States must develop a system that includes performance goals, measures student performance,
indicators of school quality (climate and safety or engagement)
2. School improvement and support:
States must offer support to schools in need of improvement
3. Improving school climate, safety, and access to high quality comprehensive learning supports (MTSS)
shared decision making - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅structured process to include all individuals in the
process for inclusion of stakeholders in the district's decision-making process.
zero-tolerance policy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅No violation is forgiven; the offender is disciplined
accordingly. The discipline goes up to and includes termination.
transactional leaders - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅leaders who guide or motivate their followers in the
direction of established goals by clarifying role and task requirements
Transformational Leadership - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅leadership that, enabled by a leader's vision and
inspiration, exerts significant influence in change and improvement
statutory roles - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅roles dictated by educational law must be identified and
communicated by the superintendent to the school board.
Districts shared decision making team - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅analyzes and decisions results of the
questionnaire and then plans actions steps to improve.
A female member of the faculty sends a letter to the superintendent of the school district. Her
complaint is that her school's principal, who is male, calls her and other female employees by names
such as "dear," "honey," and so on. The writer of the letter perceives this as disrespectful. In following
up, the superintendent discovers the content of the complaint is confirmed as fact but also that the
majority of the rest of the female staff do not perceive the principal as disrespectful in his forms of
address. Which action by the superintendent regarding the complaint would be most suitable? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Telling the principal some staff are offended and the names do not set good
examples for students
Piaget's Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Children actively construct their understanding of the world
and go through four stages of cognitive development.
Jacobs - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅curriculum mapping
Calkins - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅writers workshop
Dufour - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Professional Learning Communities
Vygotsky - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅zone of proximal development
Gardner's - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅our abilities are best classified into eight independent Multiple
Intelligences, which include a broad range of skills beyond traditional school smarts
Skinner's - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Operant Conditioning Development consists of the pattern of
behavioral changes that are brought about by rewards and punishments
culture and learning - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅environment with a emphasis on learning and high
expectations for academic achievement
FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A federal law that regulates
the management of student records and disclosure of information from those records. The Act has its
own administrative enforcement mechanism.
SWOT analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a planning tool used to analyze an organization's strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
IB - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅rigorous curriculum program implemented in schools around the world.
Need- PD, international network, high level or rigor
, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Assessment and Accountability Systems;
States must develop a system that includes performance goals, measures student performance,
indicators of school quality (climate and safety or engagement)
2. School improvement and support:
States must offer support to schools in need of improvement
3. Improving school climate, safety, and access to high quality comprehensive learning supports (MTSS)
shared decision making - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅structured process to include all individuals in the
process for inclusion of stakeholders in the district's decision-making process.
zero-tolerance policy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅No violation is forgiven; the offender is disciplined
accordingly. The discipline goes up to and includes termination.
transactional leaders - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅leaders who guide or motivate their followers in the
direction of established goals by clarifying role and task requirements
Transformational Leadership - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅leadership that, enabled by a leader's vision and
inspiration, exerts significant influence in change and improvement
statutory roles - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅roles dictated by educational law must be identified and
communicated by the superintendent to the school board.
Districts shared decision making team - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅analyzes and decisions results of the
questionnaire and then plans actions steps to improve.
A female member of the faculty sends a letter to the superintendent of the school district. Her
complaint is that her school's principal, who is male, calls her and other female employees by names
such as "dear," "honey," and so on. The writer of the letter perceives this as disrespectful. In following
up, the superintendent discovers the content of the complaint is confirmed as fact but also that the
majority of the rest of the female staff do not perceive the principal as disrespectful in his forms of
address. Which action by the superintendent regarding the complaint would be most suitable? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Telling the principal some staff are offended and the names do not set good
examples for students
