2017-02-14T13:42:11-06:00 2016-06-30 SMITH & HOWARD PC 271 17TH STREET SUITE 1600 ATLANTA GA 30363 990 2015-07-01 455209297 GEORGIA LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT INC % DR LESLIE HAZLE BUSSEY GEOR 7704649229 3237 SATELLITE BLVD SUITE 460 DULUTH GA 30096 DR LESLIE HAZLE BUSSEY Officer 7704649299 2017-02-15 true MARC AZAR P00746804 4048746244 2017-02-15 2015 2021-01-29 14:40:06Z X Dr Leslie Hazle Bussey 3237 SATELLITE BLVD SUITE 460 DULUTH GA 30096 3224429 false X WWW.GLISI.ORG X 2012 GA THE MISSION OF GEORGIA LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE FOR SCHOOOL IMPROVEMENT IS TO DEVELOP WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION LEADERS WHO ADVANCE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND ORG. EFFECTIVENESS. 9 9 12 9 0 1648256 1979267 1445102 1240064 3412 5098 0 0 3096770 3224429 0 0 0 0 1154826 1235272 0 0 22282 2180729 2101342 3335555 3336614 -238785 -112185 3280237 3072903 323547 228398 2956690 2844505 X GLISI DEVELOPS WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION LEADERS WHO ADVANCE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS. WE DO THIS THROUGH A COMBINATION OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (TRAINING), CONSULTING, AND RESEARCH SERVICES DELIVERED TO DISTRICT AND SCHOOL LEADERS IN GEORGIA AND BEYOND. false false 611710 1517360 654750 GLISI's Base Camp and Leadership Summit (BCLS) is a leadership development opportunity for education leaders in Georgia, designed to boost team effectiveness, drive instructional improvement, and provide leaders with the tools required to prepare every student for postsecondary success. Emphasis in training is placed on teaching leaders to use data-driven continuous improvement processes focused on improving the quality of teaching and learning, ultimately leading to gains in student achievement. In FY16, GLISI served 409 leaders (superintendents, central office leaders, principals, assistant principals, teacher leaders, and school support staff) from across 20 Georgia school districts, Teach for America, and the Georgia Department of Education through three cohorts of BCLS. Districts represented hail from all corners of Georgia including metro Atlanta, north Georgia, middle Georgia, and southwest and southeast Georgia. Many (91%) of our FY16 partners sent teams previously, attesting to the persistent value of the training experience to district leaders. Returning districts brought new participants from their respective schools and district offices as part of a strategy to build a critical mass of leaders armed with the skills, knowledge, and tools taught at BCLS. Each team participated in two two-and -one-half day residential training events, for a total of 46 hours of training for each participant. GLISI delivered 18,814 person-training hours (# hours training provided x # participants) through BCLS in FY16. The short-term objective of BCLS is to equip teams with the skills, knowledge and tools to develop SMART goal-driven improvement plans to address organizational performance challenges including student achievement. 100% of participating teams developed a SMART goal based on analysis of district data. 100% of participating teams developed a plan for addressing that goal. Pre-post assessment of participant learning showed statistically significant learning gains in every measured category--an indication that participants were better equipped to analyze data; converse with others about data; and assess the effectiveness of the school and district improvement plans developed after attending BCLS. The long-term objective of BCLS is to influence the behavior of school and district leaders which in turn influences the quality of instruction which finally influences student outcomes. Ninety-six percent of FY16 participants indicated that their approach to teaching and learning improved as a result of attending BCLS. These are precursor adult behaviors that research suggests are linked to improvements in instruction, and by extension, student achievement. In our most recent analysis of student outcomes, districts that sent teams to BCLS from 2013-2015 showed an average gain in the 4 Year Cohort Graduation Rate (CGR) that outperformed the state average gain by 2.8 percentage points. While the state 4 Year Cohort Graduation Rate in 2015 was 78.8%, the CGR for BCLS districts was 81.6%. 611710 659833 585314 GLISI offers a variety of in-district support services to school district partners across Georgia. Currently, GLISI offers (1) Strategic Improvement Planning, delivered in partnership with the Georgia School Boards Association; (2) Implementation Consulting, delivered to qualifying BCLS districts who require additional support in implementing school improvement processes; and (3) Custom consulting and training services delivered based on an assessment of leadership development and talent management needs in the district. The objective of the GLISI-GSBA Strategic Improvement Planning consulting service is to assist districts and their local communities in developing a district-wide improvement plan to guide transparent systemic improvement for 3-5 years. In FY16, GLISI worked in nine districts with 410 community members, teachers, school, and district leaders through our GLISI-GSBA Strategic Improvement Planning consulting service. 100% of districts achieved the goal of developing a board-approved strategic improvement plan. The objective of GLISI's Implementation Consulting is to assist the district in achieving specified performance targets within a mutually agreed-upon timeframe (usually three school years). This work is done through on-site coaching by GLISI professional staff and skilled performance consultants (retired education leaders with a track record of successfully leading school and district improvement) who work side-by-side with district and school leaders to implement best practice in education leadership and organizational effectiveness. GLISI staff and consultants begin by modeling and facilitating team meetings, data analysis, classroom observations, and strategy sessions to identify needed structural and instructional changes to improve school performance. As district leaders grow, team facilitation and coaching responsibilities are gradually transferred from GLISI staff and consultants to district staff. Progress toward the performance goal is regularly monitored to ensure GLISI's Implementation Consulting service is achieving intended outcomes. In FY16, GLISI worked in three districts providing a total of 1,747 coaching hours to 138 leaders. The objective of GLISI's Custom Consulting and Training is to provide in-district support to meet district leadership development and talent management needs. Custom services delivered in FY16 include Aspiring Leaders training, designed to develop individuals who understand the elements of school leadership and are better positioned to be effective school leaders; School Improvement Planning, designed to guide schools in developing a comprehensive improvement plan aligned with the districts strategic direction and tailored to the needs of the individual school; and Leadership Coaching, designed to cultivate an individual leaders ability to drive organizational and instructional improvement. In FY16, GLISI completed five of these custom partnerships, supporting 331 education leaders in Georgia with over 2,930 in-district consulting hours logged. In post-service surveys of district decision-maker satisfaction (usually district superintendent), 100% of respondents reported that they were satisfied with GLISI's consulting service; 100% reported that GLISI's consulting service effectively accomplished expected goals and objectives; and 100% reported they would recommend GLISI to colleagues in other districts. Among aspiring leader partners, leader development is translating to actual leader placement, an indicator that the training is preparing individuals ready to assume school leadership roles: 37% of ALP participants who completed their cohort before the end of FY16 were promoted to assistant principal, instructional coach or central office leader as of Aspiring Leaders program completion. GLISI also received support from the R. Howard Dobbs Foundation to deliver custom support to three additional districts in Georgia - a combination of training, coaching, and technical assistance. This work began at the end of FY16 and will carry into the next fiscal year. At the close of FY16, GLISI served 29 leaders through this initiative and logged 232 hours of support. 611710 778954 High Calling: Coaching And Learning for Leaders in Carroll County High Schools is a comprehensive talent management strategy aimed at improving student outcomes through development of strong school and district leaders. The partnership between the Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement (GLISI) and the Carroll County School System (CCSS) has three goals: 1) to improve the effectiveness of current high school principals and assistant principals in leading change and school improvement; 2) to identify and develop a pipeline of strong aspiring leaders equipped to successfully lead innovative high school designs; and 3) to create district conditions that retain and grow effective high school leaders. CCSS is a rural, high-need LEA located on the border between Georgia and Alabama in central west Georgia, serving a diverse population of 14,048 students. The project uses a model of rigorous candidate selection, blended coaching for current and aspiring high school leaders in all five CCSS high schools, technical assistance to help district leaders create supportive principal working conditions, and incentive compensation to recognize instructionally-focused leadership practice. The project is yielding new insights about developing school and district leadership in two environments that have typically been resistant to change: high schools and rural districts. Outcomes include increased and pervasive instructional leadership in all target high schools as measured by the Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL); increased retention of high school leaders; a pipeline of high school leaders with skills and experience leading instructional improvement; and increased student outcomes including cohort graduation rate. In FY16, GLISI provided leadership development support to 65 school and district leaders in Carroll County under the High Calling grant. The results of our work to date are among our most exciting. Mean CALL scores have increased district-wide from 2014 to date with biggest gains on Positive School Climate scales. Ten teacher leaders completed an aspiring leaders program in FY16, and four (40%) were promoted to assistant principal or district positions by June 2016. Since the beginning of the grant, 15 of 58 leaders from across the district have been promoted to positions of increasing responsibility and instructional leadership. Most compelling, as of June 2016, the cohort graduation rate has increased from 73.9% in 2013 at the start of High Calling, to 84.7%. A 10.8% increase equates to 134 more students in Carroll County graduating every year. 2956147 true true false false false false false false false true true false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 68 0 true 12 true false false false false false false false false false false X 9 9 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false GA X DR LESLIE HAZLE BUSSEY 7704649299 3237 SATELLITE BLVD SUITE 460 DULUTH GA 30096 Stephen Dolinger DIRECTOR 1.0 0.0 X 0 0 0 Jeannie Henry DIRECTOR 1.0 0.0 X 0 0 0 Loren Starr DIRECTOR 1.0 0.0 X 0 0 0 John Zauner DIRECTOR 1.0 0.0 X 0 0 0 Joseph C Barrow DIRECTOR 1.0 0.0 X 0 0 0 Rene Bostic DIRECTOR 1.0 0.0 X 0 0 0 Jonathan Love DIRECTOR 1.0 0.0 X 0 0 0 David Peterson DIRECTOR 1.0 0.0 X 0 0 0 Reggie Walker DIRECTOR 1.0 0.0 X 0 0 0 Gale Hulme EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 40.0 0.0 X 143362 0 18568 Leslie Hazle Bussey CHIEF OF STAFF 40.0 0.0 X 107276 0 28352 Mary Anne Charron CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER 40.0 0.0 X 131663 0 13095 Patricia Heitmuller DIRECTOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOP. 40.0 0.0 X 103260 0 10270 Letishia Jones DIRECTOR STRATEGIC CONSULTING 40.0 0.0 X 97693 0 29377 583254 0 99662 4 false true false DRAKE HIGHLANDER 4227 HARDY AVENUE SMYRNA GA 30082 GRAPHIC DESIGN 128300 1 X 952234 1027033 1979267 BASE CAMP LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 611710 654750 654750 CONSULTING 611710 491458 491458 STRATEGIC IMPROVEMENT PLANNING 812300 93856 93856 1240064 5098 5098 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3224429 1240064 5098 X 0 0 0 0 306433 254558 38497 13378 0 749407 680206 69201 0 98944 84102 10884 3958 80488 68416 8854 3218 0 0 17000 17000 0 0 0 1077023 1003130 73893 3940 3940 0 0 0 79009 3366 75643 127531 94779 31267 1485 0 0 0 0 10487 10487 3938 3938 ROOM,BOARD, AND MEETING 679274 679274 MATERIALS 95281 86494 8544 243 REGISTRATIONS & SUBSCRIPTIONS 2607 2607 POSTAGE, PRINTING & SUPPLIES 4071 1822 2249 1181 1181 3336614 2956147 358185 22282 2854633 2792078 0 0 257646 189134 154334 84000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1797 37466 31572 13624 5894 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3280237 3072903 61964 63023 0 0 261583 165375 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 323547 228398 X 2856690 2744505 100000 100000 0 0 2956690 2844505 3280237 3072903 -112185 X false true X true true true X 100000 1084617 2800706 1648256 1979267 7612846 2102256 1261943 1445102 1240064 6049365 0 0 0 100000 3186873 4062649 3093358 3219331 13662211 934816 2250000 750000 850000 4784816 1280799 788753 920432 599627 3589611 2215615 3038753 1670432 1449627 8374427 5287784 1746 2188 3412 5098 12444 0 1746 2188 3412 5098 12444 0 675 675 100000 3188619 4065512 3096770 3224429 13675330 X 0.00000 Schedule A, Part III, Question 14 The 2011 return was a short period covering 04/01/2012-06/30/2012 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 100000 100000 100000 100000 200000 100000 100000 100000 200000 100000 200000 100000 100000 1.00000 false false 37466 31572 5894 5894 0 0 X 3224429 3224429 3224429 3336614 3336614 3336614 SCHEDULE D, PART V, QUESTION 4 TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS TOTALING $100,000 AT JUNE 30, 2016 CONSIST OF CONTRIBUTIONS THAT ARE TIME - RESTRICTED. SCHEDULE D, PART X, QUESTION 2 The Organization is recognized as an organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code as an organization described in Section 501(c)(3). The Organization annually evaluates all federal and state income tax positions. This process includes an analysis of whether these income tax positions the Organization takes meet the definition of an uncertain tax position under the Income Taxes Topic of the Financial Accounting Standards Codification. The Organization is no longer subject to tax examinations for tax years ending before June 30, 2013. X X X false false false false false false false false false Gale Hulme EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 143362 0 0 0 0 0 14646 0 3922 0 161930 0 0 0 FORM 990, PART III, QUESTION 3 Expansion of consulting services, in particular the Implementation and Custom Consulting programs FORM 990, PART VI, QUESTION 15a The compensation committee comprised of the Board Chair and Board Secretary/Treasurer gathered data from a variety of sources on comparable CEO/Executive Director salaries from similar organizations for review. The Compensation committee makes a recommendation for salary adjustments to the Board of Directors for approval. Salary adjustments are included in the organization's budget and approved by the Board of Directors. FORM 990, PART VI, QUESTION 15b A compensation committee comprised of the Board Chair and Board Secretary/Treasurer gathered data from a variety of sources on comparable key staff salaries from similar organizations for review. Compensation committee makes a recommendation for salary adjustments to the Board of Directors for approval. Salary adjustments are included in the organization's budget and approved by the Board of Directors. FORM 990, PART VI, QUESTION 19 Available for review in office by written request FORM 990, PART VI, QUESTION 12C TO ENSURE GLISI OPERATES IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND DOES NOT ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES THAT COULD JEOPARDIZE ITS TAX-EXEMPT STATUS, PERIODIC REVIEWS ARE CONDUCTED. THESE PERIODIC REVIEWS, AT A MINIMUM, INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS: A. WHETHER COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENTS AND BENEFITS ARE REASONABLE, BASED ON COMPETENT SURVEY INFORMATION, AND THE RESULT OF ARM'S LENGTH BARGAINING. B. WHETHER PARTNERSHIPS, JOINT VENTURES, AND ARRANGEMENTS WITH MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS CONFORM TO THE CORPORATION'S WRITTEN POLICIES, ARE PROPERLY RECORDED, REFLECT REASONABLE INVESTMENT OR PAYMENTS FOR GOODS AND SERVICES, FURTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND DO NOT RESULT IN INUREMENT, IMPERMISSIBLE PRIVATE BENEFIT OR IN AN EXCESS BENEFIT TRANSACTION. FORM 990 PART IX LINE 11G DESCRIPTION:CONSULTANTS TOTAL FEES:1077023