SLLA study plan
SLLA · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum & Vision, Mission, and Strategic Goals
Deconstruct Domain 2 into a one-page concept map linking curriculum coherence, high-quality instruction, assessment literacy, and professional learning to observable leader actions.
Draft a 200-word vision statement, then annotate three concrete instructional decisions that would change if that vision were adopted.
Generate and score a 25-item self-quiz on Domain 2 vocabulary, logging every miss by underlying concept rather than by item.
Identify five verbs from the Domain 1 performance expectations and convert each into a question you would ask a staff member to test alignment.
Your checkpoint
A scored 25-item Domain 2 self-quiz plus a one-page concept map in which every missed item is re-explained in your own words.
Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum & Vision, Mission, and Strategic Goals
Trace a full data-driven instruction cycle from assessment to reteaching, naming the leader's decision at each of the six checkpoints.
Compare three vision/mission statements against a five-criterion rubric you write, and rank them with justification.
Design a professional learning plan that specifies needs analysis, measurable objectives, learning activities, and an evaluation method.
Evaluate one school improvement scenario for the mismatch between stated goals and allocated instructional time.
Your checkpoint
A two-page professional development plan (needs analysis → objectives → activities → evaluation) scored against your own six-criterion rubric.
Managing Organizational Systems, Operations, and Safety & Vision, Mission, and Strategic Goals
Map the school budget cycle from allocation to expenditure to audit on a single flow diagram.
Sequence a crisis response from initial detection through reunification, marking the leader's decision points and communication triggers.
Contrast two master schedule models for their effect on instructional time and intervention access.
Justify three resource trade-offs by tying each to a specific vision priority.
Your checkpoint
A one-page master schedule decision memo that allocates time and staff to the top two instructional priorities and explicitly names what was cut.
Collaborating with Families and Community Stakeholders & Managing Organizational Systems, Operations, and Safety
Build a stakeholder map that segments families, community partners, and staff by influence and information need.
Translate one school initiative into a communication matrix covering audience, message, channel, and timing.
Diagnose four common barriers to family engagement and match each to a leader action that removes it.
Outline a partnership agreement with an external community organization, including reciprocity and exit terms.
Your checkpoint
A stakeholder communication matrix (audience × message × channel × timing) for a single school-wide initiative.
Professional Ethics, Integrity, and Equity
Apply a four-step ethical decision model to three written dilemmas and defend each resolution with a named standard.
Audit one school policy for equity gaps in access, discipline, or resource distribution.
Distinguish legal compliance from ethical obligation in four short scenarios and state which governs the leader's response.
Draft a 150-word equity impact statement for a decision that disadvantages one subgroup in the short term.
Your checkpoint
Three written ethics scenarios resolved through the decision model and cited standards, each in 300 words or fewer.
The Education System and Instructional Leadership Context
Diagram the policy flow from federal to state to district to school for one instructional mandate.
Summarize the major school funding sources and the constraints each places on local spending.
Analyze a governance or bargaining scenario to identify who holds decision authority and where the leader has discretion.
Explain in writing how to advance an instructional priority while operating inside three fixed constraints.
Your checkpoint
A one-page annotated flowchart of the policy and funding environment with three leadership implications drawn from it.
Vision, Mission, and Strategic Goals & Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum & Managing Organizational Systems, Operations, and Safety & Collaborating with Families and Community Stakeholders & Professional Ethics, Integrity, and Equity & The Education System and Instructional Leadership Context
Complete one full-length timed practice test under exam conditions with no notes.
Tag every missed or guessed item to a domain and a root cause: knowledge gap, misread, or faulty reasoning.
Verbalize the rationale for ten constructed-response prompts aloud within a two-minute limit each.
Rank all six domains by error density and select the two lowest for Week 8 remediation.
Your checkpoint
A scored full-length timed practice test plus an error log tagging each miss by domain and root cause.
Vision, Mission, and Strategic Goals & Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum & Managing Organizational Systems, Operations, and Safety & Collaborating with Families and Community Stakeholders & Professional Ethics, Integrity, and Equity & The Education System and Instructional Leadership Context
Re-teach your ten weakest concepts by writing a fresh explanation and example for each.
Re-attempt every item missed in Week 7 and record why the correct answer is correct.
Rehearse time allocation across item types to confirm pacing on a 30-question subset.
Assemble a single review sheet limited to concepts you have missed at least twice.
Your checkpoint
A one-page final review sheet of your ten weakest concepts plus a score of at least 90% on a 30-question retest of those same concepts.
Milestones
Week 2: Complete the Domain 1–2 foundation: concept map, vision annotation, and PD plan all finished, and score at least 75% on an untimed 30-question set drawn from Domains 1 and 2.
Week 4: Score at least 75% on a 50-question mixed set covering Domains 1–4; any domain scoring below 70% gets a named re-study block scheduled in Weeks 5–6.
Week 6: All six domains have at least one written deliverable and one scored practice set; confirm the error log shows misses spread across at least four domains, not concentrated in one.
Week 8: Full-length timed practice score at or above your target passing margin, at least 90% on the weak-concept retest, and zero untagged items in the error log.