What Is QSL-ID?

The QSL-ID process guides schools and districts through each of the specific steps to hiring the right school leader and allows them to do the following:

• Establish an effective hiring committee that understands the specific leadership needs of the school or district.
• Recruit principal candidates based on the criteria that best meets school and district goals.
• Identify the strongest candidates and conduct an onsite performance assessment of finalists.
• Plan for a smooth leadership transition.

How Is QSL-ID Different?

• QSL-ID was designed with the input of school and district hiring committees, human resource directors, and superintendents. QSL-ID was field-tested and validated in several rural, suburban, and urban school districts across the state of Illinois.
• The QSL-ID tools are designed to standardize the hiring process and are aligned with the current Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (2008) standards.
• QSL-ID is a not a one-size-fits-all tool. QSL-ID can be customized to the needs of small and large, urban, suburban, and rural school districts. The tool also fits the needs of schools engaged in the turnaround process. The hiring committee can implement all of the components of QSL-ID or employ and adapt key elements to augment your district’s current principal hiring process.

To learn more about QSL-ID or to request additional information about how Learning Point Associates can support your school or district principal hiring process, please e-mail Matthew Clifford at mclifford@air.org.

Additional resources:

The Academy for Educational Development provides Decision Rubrics with findings, frameworks and examples from several major research and policy studies on data-informed decision-making. An AED rubric for Human Resources is available on the SAI website for identifying how high-quality leaders get recruited, trained, mentored, licensed, placed in schools and supported as the result of a coordinated set of policies and practices.

You may also wish to explore the research-based promising practices relating to the HR rubric as you begin to identify “next steps” to support instructional leadership.