SLT Elections

The School Leadership Team (SLT) is a group of staff and parents who develop educational policies for their school. They also make sure there are resources to support those policies. They provide ongoing evaluations of a school’s educational programs and their impact on student achievement, and play an important role in school-based decision-making to help foster more collaborative school cultures.

An SLT is responsible for developing a school’s Comprehensive Educational Plan (CEP), which outlines the school’s goals and strategies for student achievement.

You will need to be present and actively involved in monthly in-person meetings and any other supplemental meetings, attend mandatory training sessions, communicate with the school community, and contribute to special projects.

SLTs must be composed of an equal number of parents and staff. Three member positions are mandatory: the school’s principal, the PA/PTA/ PTO president (or a co-president), and a UFT representative; any of these members may be represented by a designee.

The other positions are determined by elections for each constituent group: the PA/PTA/ PTO is required to hold elections for parent representatives, and staff members elect their representatives as well.

Despite their different constituent groups, SLTs must function as true teams. They are required to use consensus-based decision making, in which all participants play a role in the final decision. With this approach, members listen to one another’s contributions and ideas with the goal of arriving at solutions that work for the entire group. Bylaws, mandated for all SLTs, serve as the team’s operating guidelines.

The rules governing the formation, operation, and roles and responsibilities of SLTs and its members are contained in Chancellor’s Regulation A-655 (CR A-655).