This document summarizes an individual leadership plan and assessment for the goal of engaging in professional development to stay up-to-date on education research, literature, best practices, and trends. The administrator completed graduate courses, attended several professional conferences, and engaged in professional development with teachers. This helped inform the administrator's work with teachers on instructional practices, data analysis, and supporting students upon their return to in-person learning. While the goal focused on the administrator's individual growth, collaborative professional development helped cultivate a professional learning community and allowed the administrator to apply new knowledge when supporting teachers and communicating with parents.
This document summarizes an individual leadership plan and assessment for the goal of engaging in professional development to stay up-to-date on education research, literature, best practices, and trends. The administrator completed graduate courses, attended several professional conferences, and engaged in professional development with teachers. This helped inform the administrator's work with teachers on instructional practices, data analysis, and supporting students upon their return to in-person learning. While the goal focused on the administrator's individual growth, collaborative professional development helped cultivate a professional learning community and allowed the administrator to apply new knowledge when supporting teachers and communicating with parents.
This document summarizes an individual leadership plan and assessment for the goal of engaging in professional development to stay up-to-date on education research, literature, best practices, and trends. The administrator completed graduate courses, attended several professional conferences, and engaged in professional development with teachers. This helped inform the administrator's work with teachers on instructional practices, data analysis, and supporting students upon their return to in-person learning. While the goal focused on the administrator's individual growth, collaborative professional development helped cultivate a professional learning community and allowed the administrator to apply new knowledge when supporting teachers and communicating with parents.
This document summarizes an individual leadership plan and assessment for the goal of engaging in professional development to stay up-to-date on education research, literature, best practices, and trends. The administrator completed graduate courses, attended several professional conferences, and engaged in professional development with teachers. This helped inform the administrator's work with teachers on instructional practices, data analysis, and supporting students upon their return to in-person learning. While the goal focused on the administrator's individual growth, collaborative professional development helped cultivate a professional learning community and allowed the administrator to apply new knowledge when supporting teachers and communicating with parents.
3C-1Strengthen school climate through participation, engagement, connection, and a sense of
belonging among all students and staff.
The following narrative describes the extent to which actions were taken and results achieved in meeting and/or exemplifying the above standard for each standard concept. Narrative responses for each question should be no less than 300-and no more than 1000 words for each numbered question. Please type your response under each question in a blue ink.
1-6 Practice the Meets the Standard (required)
1. Describe the factors that inspired the development of your clear vision for this goal?
Goal: Standard 5 Ethics & Integrity: Education leaders make decisions, model, and behave in ways that demonstrate professionalism, ethics, integrity, justice, and equity and hold staff to the same standard.
5A-3: Engage in professional learning to be up-to-date with education research, literature, best practices, and trends to strengthen ability to lead.
Last school year was marked with unprecedented change in education. School closures continued into the 2020 school year which resulted in tremendous changes in how we educate students and engagement school communities remotely. Key stakeholders in education continued to voice concerns about the impacts of distance learning on student’s academic growth and social emotional learning. The decline in student engagement made it evident that once students returned to campus for in person instruction, teachers and school leaders would need to provide robust supports to ensure students were on track to meeting learning outcomes. With that in mind, I wanted to ensure that I was prepared to meet this need when students returned so, I focused on staying up to date with current research, trends and best practices in education.
2. Detail the factors that informed the design and direction of your action plan for achieving your vision?
To further my own personal growth, I completed several graduate courses this school year. The courses included Conceptual Curriculum Perspectives, Organizational Theory and Advanced Research. These courses prepared me work with staff around a shared vision, to understand the complexity of school organizations and policy and analyze data in the effort to increase student achievement. In anticipation of students returning to campus full time, my work in these courses will guide the implementation of academic supports for students.
The second factor that informed the design of this goal was engaging in professional development that would support the shared vision and initiatives of my school site. Ensuring students were provided with rigorous instruction during distance learning and planning adequate supports for students once they returned to campus was a priority at both school sites. Therefore, it was important to engage in professional learning aligned to these goals.
3. What professional learning did you solicit and experience in order to inform your practice within this goal, and how did it impact your vision and actions?
This particular goal revolves around increasing leadership skills through professional development. I was able to take advantage of a variety of professional development opportunities that were aligned to supporting teachers in best instructional practices and the cultivation of professional learning communities at both school sites. These professional learning opportunities included:
ACSA Leadership Summit
ACSA Every Child Counts Conference PLCs At Work Time For Change- Four Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders DNA Math Through these professional development opportunities, I was able to collaborate with the school teachers and the administrative teams to explore research-based instructional practices, plan interventions for the upcoming school year and refine grade level planning. Knowledge and skills gained from these professional development opportunities were applied when meeting with teachers during the evaluation process and while collaborating with grade level teams. The PLCS AT Work professional development was done in conjunction with teachers, where we read current literature revolving around standards -based instruction, unwrapping standards and instructional strategies to increase rigor while simultaneously supporting student’s individual needs. We then discussed how teachers planned on incorporating these practices to support student growth. Knowledge gained from these professional development opportunities shifted my thinking with this goal from it focusing solely on my individual growth to how collaborative professional development increases my individual growth. By engaging in professional development with a team, I was able to see how teachers viewed their role in increasing student engagement and achievement and the unique challenges faced at each grade level. By engaging in dialog, we were able to discuss solutions to common barriers that traditional prevent teachers from trying more research-based instructional practices.
4. What specific actions did you take build the leadership capacity of others within this goal work?
I believe the biggest action was engaging in collaborative professional development. The PLCS At Work professional development was completed with the majority of the teaching staff over a series of Saturday mornings. The Time for change conference was completed with my administrative team at Cottonwood which enabled us to discuss ideas and plans for implementation in real time. Throughout the Every Child Succeeds conference, I discussed the breakout sessions with other vice principals within the district. We shared take-aways from the varying sessions and how strategies can be brought back to the district to support student needs.
5. What specific actions did you take to engage and compel the staff and/or broader community in cooperatively working toward your individual goal toward becoming a shared goal? Response:
Engaging in professional development to further site initiatives assisted in cultivating a professional
learning community and working toward my goal in preparing to support students academically upon a return to campus as well as staying up to date with current research and trends in education.
In completing graduate courses and attending educational conferences I was able to apply this knowledge when working with teachers in grade level teams to review NWEA data and communicating this data to parents during ELAC meetings. For example, although I was reassigned to a new site I was able to pull site-based assessment data reports for ELA and Math, disaggregate the data and present the findings to parents during an ELAC meeting. I communicated student growth by year with parents and discussed how the data was being used to inform instructional decisions and funding next school year. The data was also presented at the School Site Council meeting to connect spending to student needs. 6. How did your work specifically result in increasing student and staff growth and well- being? Include substantiating data (qualitative or quantitative). Response: I believe my engagement in professional development opportunities enabled me to contribute to student and staff growth and well-being in a variety of ways. This included exploring best practices with teachers, applying those strategies throughout the evaluation process and increasing student engagement through literacy and team building. By researching and launching the Battle of the Books competition, students engaged collaborative teams and read varying genres. Being that this goal focused on self- growth through professional development, I was unable to measure how the goal actively increased student and staff growth and development. 5-7 Practice that Exemplifies the Standard (optional)
7. In your work within this goal/standard, describe innovative practices or programs did you designed and employed in your work with staff and/or students? Response:
8. Describe how the positive results of your work in this goal resulted in your staff/students/community rallying their commitment and support for this effort. Response:
9. Describe the way in which you leveraged relationships to distribute leadership and accountability across the community in order to continuously improve outcomes beyond expectations. Response:
