Standard+2

**Instructional Leadership** **School executives set high standards for the professional practice of 21st century instruction and assessment that result in a no nonsense accountable environment. The school executive must be knowledgeable of best instructional and school practices and must use this knowledge to cause the creation of collaborative structures within the school for the design of highly engaging schoolwork for students, the on-going peer review of this work, and the sharing of this work throughout the professional community.**

Graph based on self assessment.

**Standard 2a. Focus on Learning and Teaching, Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment:** The school executive leads the discussion about standards for curriculum, instruction, and assessment based on research and best practices in order to establish and achieve high expectations for students.

**__Experiences__**
 * **Co-Developed** powerpoint to assess data with staff
 * **Developed powerpoint** to assess data with 8th grade ELA
 * **Developed** Weekly Assessment & Benchmark Powerpoint to Assess Results with ELA / PLC
 * **Mentored** beginning teachers beginning in August - present
 * **Utilized** the Teacher Working Survey for the improvement of instruction
 * **Worked with Leadership Team** to align School Improvement Team with the Teachers' Working Conditions Survey
 * **Collaboratively** created professional development throughout the year for the Bertie Middle School staff
 * **Completed evaluation cycles**
 * **Problem of Practice** included the incorporation and support of research based practices into the 8th grade classrooms. (Fall 2011-Spring 2012)
 * **Problem of Practice** included the implementation of an effective Professional Learning Community (Fall 2011-Spring 2012)
 * **Problem of Practice** included the assistance and support in the Accelerated Reading Program to raise awareness in Literacy
 * **Arranged** for students and staff to attend a Spanish production to enhance global cultural awareness (field trip for total school)

**__ Coursework __**
 * **Aspiring Leader Self-Assessments **
 * **High School Developmental Project **
 * **Internship Project** / Problem of Practice (Possible artifacts: PPT deck created for Dr. Corn’s class; slide created for poster; logic model; evaluation plan; video of students/teachers engaging in program)
 * **Distinguished Leadership in Practice** assignments: 2
 * **High School Turnaround Case Study **
 * **Weekly Internship Logs **
 * **Formal Teacher Evaluations **
 * **“Flipped” Classroom Video **
 * **Middle School Developmental Project **
 * **Fall 2011 Assessment Day:** - Video reflection on school culture - Triad role plays re: teacher interactions - Action plan for teacher
 * **Upper Elementary School Developmental Project **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Special Education Legal Literacy Assignment **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Clinical Supervision Assignment **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Spring 2011 Assessment Day:** - Letter home re: safety incident at school - Role plays re: teacher / student issues - Essay on articles
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pre-K / Early Elementary Developmental Project **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">__ **Specialized Training** __
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Data Day**: EVAAS, ACRE, Metametrics, NC WISE
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Literacy **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Common Core Overview** (the one we had on mock interview day)
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Understanding by Design **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Schooling by Design **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**IEL** Federal Policy Institute
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**School Visits:** KIPP Gaston, Bertie Middle School
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Mathematics Common Core** Trajectories
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assistments **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Teacher Evaluation** Instrument
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ruby Payne **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DPI Special Education Day **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Various Conferences** - ASCD (California- Spring 2011)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Related Readings__**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tyack, D. B. & Cuban, L. (1995). //Tinkering toward utopia: A century of public school reform//. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
 * //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Carr, P.J., & Kefalas, M. (2010). // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px;">Hollowing out the middle: The rural brain drain and what it means for America //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">. Boston, Mass. : Enfield: Beacon. //
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px;">Chenoweth, K. (2009), //How it's being done//. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px;">Meece, J. L., & Daniels, D. H. (2008). Child and adolescent development for educators. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px;">Florida, R. L. (2004). //The rise of the creative class: And how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life//. New York: Basic Books.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px;">Friedman, T. L. (2007). //The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century.// New York: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
 * <span style="background-color: #f6f6f7; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Militello, M.,Leading by design: Mission, action, and achievement. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Payne, Ruby K. (2009) //Research-Based Strategies: Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Under-Resourced Students.// Highlands, TX: aha! Process, Inc.
 * <span style="background-color: #f6f6f7; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Robinson, K. (2011). //Out of our minds: Learning to be creative.// Chichester: Capston

__**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Selective Artifacts **__

Problem of Practice (Internship- Bertie Middle School) The development of the project was to ensure that 8th Grade Teachers would collaborate more effectively. The Evaluation is included below in a powerpoint presentation.

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Agenda Example for Professional Learning Community



Presented at Staff Meeting (Professional Development with Staff)

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Professional Development Agenda (Staff Meeting)

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Staff Meeting Agenda (Collaborative Common Core Presentation)

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Pictures of the Staff telling their 30 second commercial of BMS. At recent DLP, I received training on “selling” your school and building positive culture at the school. The pictures are depicting the staff “selling” BMS to another staff member. The staff enjoy this activity, and continued to build a positive culture.



School-Wide Field trip (Spanish Culture)

(Field Trip planned for entire school- Spanish Culture (Global Awareness) *The trip was planned to bring cultural awareness to the students, and I chose the Spanish culture because our students were enriched with a Spanish class credit for the first time this year.


 * Responsibilities: Arrange Buses and Drivers, Teacher communication, Parent/Student Communication, and Permission Slip from Students

Thank you note from Ms. Pam Baker, who is Bertie Middle School’s Media Specialist.
 * Assisted, Participated, and Supported Accelerated Reading Program in School to implement best practices for students in Literacy

Mentored and Monitored “Beginning” teachers---began the year with a welcome basket and school tourcontinue to meet throughout the year (example--calendar of day & suggested topics)



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**Stand** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">**ard 2b. Focus on Instructional Time:** The school executive creates processes and schedules which protect teachers form disruption of instructional or preparation time.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Experien__****__ces__**
 * **Created a Club Day schedule** which protects teachers and students
 * **Arranged Celebration Day** Schedule
 * **Collaboratively** participated in designing Schedules, so that teachers & students would continue in consist manner.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__ Coursework __**


 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aspiring Leader Self-Assessments **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Internship Project** / Problem of Practice (Possible artifacts: PPT deck created for Dr. Corn’s class; slide created for poster; logic model; evaluation plan; video of students/teachers engaging in program)??
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Distinguished Leadership in Practice** assignments: 2
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**High School Turnaround** Case Study
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Weekly Internship Logs **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">__ **Specialized Training** __
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Schooling by Design **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Related Readings__**


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Senge, P.M. (1994). //The Fifth discipline fieldbook: Strategies and tools for building a learning organization//. New York: Currency, Doubleday.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lane, K.E. (2005). //The Principal's legal handbook//. Dayton, Ohio: Education Law Association.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Guthrie, J.W. (2007). //Modern education finance and policy//. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">North Carolina General Statutes, Chapter 115
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chenoweth, K. (2009). How it's being done. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Education Press.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Fullan, M. (2006). What's worth fighting for in the principalship?. New York: Teachers College Press.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wiggins, G. P., & McTighe, J. (2007). Schooling by design: Mission, action, and achievement. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Chan Kim, W., Mauborgne, Renee A. //Harvard Business Review: TIpping Point Leadership//. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Education Press.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">90-90-90 Article

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">__**Selective Artifacts**__

Below are notes from the October Leadership Team Meeting

Listed are suggested ways the leadership team addressed Teachers Working Condition Survey concerns and issues

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//After suggestions were made, the Leadership & Administrative Team implemented the following changes://
 * Reflection Notes**
 * No phone calls connected to the classroom
 * Restrict the amount of interruption
 * Limit all announcements to (morning announcements or afternoon announcement time)
 * Instructional Time protected
 * Suggestion Box added / (place-media center)
 * Meeting Time & Agendas must be sent out ahead of the meeting

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