VIEW FROM THE HIL
News and Highlights from the WMU High Impact Leadership Project
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Summer 2018
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Directors' Report of the HIL Project Launch
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HIL Project draws upon diverse research, unites partners
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HIL By the Numbers
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How is the HIL Project different from other school improvement projects?
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Leadership Now, Literacy WOW! Summits celebrate and inspire
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 With great pride, our co-directors reported this week on the first-year progress of the High Impact Leadership for School Renewal Project (HIL Project). They described the tremendous collaborative effort by this “army” of people fighting to improve early literacy in our state.
Click here to read the Directors’ report
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HIL Project draws upon diverse research, unites partners
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The HIL Project is one of only three federally funded projects designed to effect increased leadership capacity in schools. The HIL Project model for doing that builds upon five areas of previous research of the Project Director Dr. Patricia Reeves and Co-Director Dr. Jianping Shen. This research includes:
- a FRAMEWORK for Learning Centered Leadership,
- a SYSTEMIC CHANGE MODEL from a district leader value-added endorsement program,
- and FINDINGS from three projects: the Reading Now Network, the GELN Literacy Task Force, and the School ADvance School Leadership Practices.
From its very design, the HIL Project has brought together multiple partners with common interests to create a unified FOCUS on fulfilling the mandate from the State of Michigan to improve 3rd grade reading.
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From the moment Western Michigan University received notice of the Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) funding in early October 2017, various Teams have worked to recruit, rally, train, and organize the people and processes needed to implement this large-scale project.
Click the image above for an at-a-glance look at the HIL Project scope and diversity.
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How is the HIL Project different from other school improvement projects?
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What sets the HIL Project apart from other projects or programs is its Focus on leadership for adaptive, sustainable, school renewal with a focus on third-grade literacy. The HIL Project is not a school improvement, school reform, or “one size fits all” effort; instead, we are helping each school build its own capacity for adaptive change.
Led by the principal and teacher-Leaders teams, with the guidance of their HIL Facilitator, the schools are aligning High Integrity Strategies, with Fidelity of Implementation (HiFi) in their schools to get Results.
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Leadership Now, Literacy WOW! Summits celebrate and inspire
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 The culmination of year one for the HIL Project came at the two Principal & Teacher-Leader Summits held on April 23, 2018 in Grand Rapids and June 21, 2018 in Kalamazoo.
At the “Leadership Now, Literacy WOW!” Summits, we celebrated the positive work school teams are already doing toward achieving high levels of literacy with their students, and introduced them to the five Phases of the HIL Project Model for achieving high integrity and fidelity sustainable change.
This work will continue on August 14, 2018 at the GVSU Eberhard Center in Grand Rapids where we expect over 300 principals, teacher-leaders and Facilitators to work within their school teams, and network with each other.
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At this time of the year, gardens are flourishing all over our West Michigan. Like a perennial flower in its garden, schools in the HIL Project are in the process of “renewing” themselves. Using the “nutrients and soil” that exist within their own district and community, and with their own unique students and staff, they will grow more full and beautiful each year. As gardening is a messy business, so too, is school renewal, and HIL Project “gardeners” are here to assist. We are looking forward to enjoying the blooms very soon.
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Summits
August 14, 2018, GVSU Eberhard Center in Grand Rapids
(Registration now open)
October 18, 2018 at WMU Bernhard Center in Kalamazoo,
March 19, 2019 at the WMU Bernhard Center in Kalamazoo
June 24 and 25, 2019 at the GVSU Eberhard Center in Grand Rapids.
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Facilitator Workshops
September 6, 2018
September 14, 2018
October 12, 2018
November 9, 2018
December 14, 2018
January 11, 2019
February 8, 2019
March 8, 2019
April 19, 2019
May 10, 2019
June 14, 2019
August 2019 (Date pending)
September 13, 2019
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