School District Leader (SDL) Exam
well answered to pass
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.
well answered to pass
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.
