developing and managing talent in the sea（开发和管理人才在海里）.pdf

Benchmark February 2013 No. 4 DEVELOPING AND MANAGING TALENT IN THE SEA The Need State education agencies (SEAs) are reframing their work to be more coordinated and strategic but talent in most SEAs continues to be in large part defined by federal programs and oriented toward the routines of compliance. SEAs hoping to complete the pivot from a compliance focus and implement new strategic initiatives are going beyond their existing organizational charts to seek individuals with strong management, entrepreneurship, and strategic visioning skills. The Context Existing talent pipelines in SEAs are rooted in the historic functions of administering federal programs and doing little more. But, in an era of education reform, tight state budgets, and increasing public expectations, SEAs face new demands to: • More efficiently manage SEA initiatives and assess progress toward goals; • Improve data systems to more precisely track performance of students in local education agencies (LEAs) and schools; • Intensify and diversify efforts to support the improvement of LEAs and schools; and • Encourage and evaluate innovative models of teaching, learning, and school design. State superintendents addressing these new demands often find that existing staff rarely have the skills or dispositions to serve in the new roles required for successfully meeting the needs. For the first time in many years, the SEA needs a talent str