Irvine Unified School District
New Principal Agenda
Leadership & Management

Leadership & Administration

  1. Founding Leadership Principles
  2. Strategic Plan &  Core Values
  3. Organizational Values (The IUSD Culture)
  4. End of Year Report (Being Revised)
  5. Organizational Chart
  6. District Administrative Responsibilities List
  7. Shared Decision Making
  8. Decentralization
  9. Technology Plan
  10. Board Policies & Administrative Regulations
  11. School Accountability Report Cards
  12. Employee Agreements
    1. CSEA   California School Employees Association
    2. ISA   Irvine Supervisory Association
    3. ITA   Irvine Teachers Association
    4. Administrative Assistants to the Principals
  13. Role of School Parent Groups and Community Expectations/School Site Council
  14. Student Discipline

Teaching & Learning

  1. Continuous Improvement Efforts
  2. Content Standards
  3. Expected Learning in Technology
  4. Coordinated School Improvement Summary/Single School Plan (School Improvement Program-SIP) (Being Revised)

Elementary Administration

  1. Combination Classes
  2. Instructional Minutes
  3. Annual Minutes
  4. Kindergarten Model Day and 2008-2009 Model School Day K-6
  5. A.P.A.A.S. (Alternative Program for Academically Accelerated Students)
  6. Retention & Promotion
  7. Keyboarding/Word Processing Skills
  8. Library Media Services
  9. Use of Gift Funds
  10. GATE & Other Heterogeneous Grouping Practices  

Secondary Administration

  1. Principal’s Monthly Calendar (Sample)
  2. Fall Assessment Meetings (Sample Questions)
  3. Athletics
  4. Grant Funding (AB 1802/ Supplemental Counseling Program & PE & Arts)
  5. Counseling Action Plans
  6. District Writing Committee Expectations & Support
  7. Site Action Plans
  8. Staff or Site Level Leadership Team Meetings
  9. PTSA Meetings (Reports)
  10. Education Codes

Agreements, Procedures & Support Documents by Level

  1. Elementary
  2. Middle School
  3. High School
  4. Adjunct Duties
  5. Enrollment
  6. Calendars
  7. Religious Holidays
  8. Open Enrollment
  9. Web Policies
  10. Special Education Parents' Handbook
  11. Other

Nuts & Bolts

  1. Principal Appraisal
  2. Teacher Appraisal (See PDK June 2005, pp. 727+) and Teacher Observations
  3. Staffing
  4. Budgets
  5. Principal Survey
  6. Mutualistic Problem Solving Approach
  7. Professional Responsibility
    • Inform if absent all day
    • Inform if arrest on campus
    • Update family contact information online
    • Transition on nutrition