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**Strategic Leadership** **School executives will create conditions that result in strategically re-imaging the school’s vision, mission, and goals in the 21st century. Understanding that schools ideally prepare students for an unseen but not altogether unpredictable future, the leader creates a climate of inquiry that challenges the school community to continually re-purpose itself by building on its core values and beliefs about its preferred future and then developing a pathway to reach it.**  Graph developed based on self assessment.

** 1a. ****School Vision, Mission and Strategic Goals**: The school’s identity, in part, is derived from the vision, mission, values, beliefs and goals of the school, the processes used to establish these attributes, and the ways they are embodied in the life of the school community.

**__Internship Experiences__**
 * **Facilitated** monthly meetings of the Bertie Middle School's Leadership Team as Chairperson
 * **Facilitated** the Leadership Team to design an action plan to revise the school's mission statement (applied the PDCA cycle to study the processes used to establish vision and mission in the school) (Fall 2011)
 * **Facilitated** the staff through revising the School's Mission Statement (powerpoint provided)
 * **Facilitated** the Bertie Middle School's Leadership Team and the staff on rewriting the "new" mission statement
 * **Revision** of the mission statement and values, evaluated and discussed Teacher Working Conditions Survey, including comparison of previous years.

**__ Coursework __**
 * **DLP assignment** required collaborative collection and rating of internship school vision and mission with mentor principal and select teachers, fall 2011.
 * **Applied the PDCA** cycle to study the processes used to establish vision and mission in the school, fall 2011
 * **Mission and Vision** Statement Assignment, developed and shared a personal vision that reflected high expectations for student achievement
 * **Self Assessment assignments**, made continual changes to personal goals that reflected feedback data to improve performance.
 * **"I Am From" Poem** (attached to Biography)
 * **School/District Digital Story **
 * **Leadership Digital Story **
 * **Evaluation** of Teacher Working Conditions Survey (example 1d.)
 * **AB Combs Visit **
 * **NC "Turnaround" High School** Visit (South Creek, Robersonville, NC)

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">__ **Specialized Tr****aining** __
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Llano Grande Digital Story** Training- Group work: created a Bertie County story title: HOPE (Heritage Of People and Ecology)
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Distinguished Leaders in Practice **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Certified training** of Schooling by Design included protocols for articulating mission and vision regularly
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Certified training** on Facilitative Leadership, including specific training on sharing a compelling vision.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">**__Related Readings__**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tinkering Towards Utopia
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The School Leaders our Children Deserve
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">How to Win Friends and Influence People

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

Staff Meeting Agenda - Facilitated Mission Revision



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<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">**1b. Leading Change:** The school executive articulates a vision, and implementation strategies, for improvements and changes which result in improved achievement for all students. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Internship Experiences__**
 * **Aligned** the school improvement plan with the Mission and beliefs of the school.
 * **Professional Learning Communities** meetings with 8th Grade English Language Arts Department

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__ Coursework __**
 * **Introductory Letter**
 * **Fall 2011 Assessment Day**
 * **Facilitative** Leadership
 * **Crucial** Conversations
 * **Problem of Practice** Phase

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">__ **Specialized Training** __
 * **Social Justice** Training
 * **Crucial Conversations**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Related Readings__**
 * Bolman & Deal
 * Leading Change by Carter
 * 7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
 * Tinkering Towards Utopia
 * Trust Matters
 * Cultural Change
 * Dale Carnege
 * Crucial Conversations
 * The School Leaders our Children Deserve
 * Seven Keys to Equity
 * Schooling by Design
 * Leading in a Culture of Change


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



[|ELA/PLC Beginning on Planning Stage (Notes on Record)]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">**1c. School Improvement Plan**: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The school improvement plan provides the structure for the vision, values, goals and changes necessary for improved achievement for all students.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Internship Experiences__**
 * **Worked with Leadership Team** to develop an action plan to align school improvement plan with Teachers' Working Condition Survey, and Title I plans for 2011-2012 school year (attached example 1d.)
 * **School Improvement Team Meetings** (attached agenda example 1a.)
 * **PLC Meetings** (agenda attached)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__ Coursework __**
 * **DLP #1** (PDCA) Cycle
 * **Problem of Practice Phase #2**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">__ **Specialized Training** __
 * **Understanding by Design**
 * **Facilitative Leadership**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Related Readings__**
 * Schooling by Design
 * Leading in a Culture of Change by Carter

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



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">**1d. Distributive Leadership**: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The school executive creates and utilizes processes to distribute leadership and decision-making throughout the school.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Internship Experiences__**
 * **Developed and implemented** 8th grade PLC/ ELA (attached agenda 1c.)
 * **Led leadership team** to revise mission statement in staff meeting (agenda)
 * **School Improvement Team**/ Leadership Meetings (attached agenda 1a.)
 * **Collaboratively** developed and planned Club Activity Days. **Recruited** staff for advisors of clubs.

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

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">__ **Specialized Training** __
 * **Facilitative Leadership**
 * **Crucial Conversations**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Related Readings__**
 * Dale Carnege: How to win friends and influence people
 * Trust Matters

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

After the Leadership Team met they asked the grade-level teams to meet and offer suggestions on the needed items of improvement from the TWC survey. Below is a compiled list of the grade level team suggestions:

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//Information about Club Day:// //Club Day “start-up”// was a big undertaking for our school. The students were excited to know that clubs were going to be started and the staff was somewhat apprehensive until further information was generated. Having the staff buy-in to the Club Day was a must in order for it to be successful and sustainable.
 * Here are the results**: 39 CLUBS : 48 STAFF MEMBERS as Advisors (some Clubs had 2 advisors)--*Note: Only 3 Full time Staff Members were not advisors.

//Reflection:// The success of the Club Day is due to the staff being ready to support the clubs as advisors. Staff became willing to be an advisor because they designed and chose their own Club. In other words, staff was allowed to choose or design their own club, and this was a huge push for building school relationships and culture. This year there was a huge variety of clubs to choose from, and the students felt like they could choose something of their interest because of the variety. Now students are constantly asking about the next “Club day”. We meet on the average of two times each month. Relationships have been built between the staff and students, and among the staff themselves. Plans have already been put into place to continue and improve Club Day activities.

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Announcement of Club Activity Day - Club Choices (also found on Bertie Middle School’s webpage)

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