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**4a. Professional Development/Learning Communities**: The school executive ensures that the school is a professional learning community.

Internship Activities


 * Participation in planning sessions with teachers
 * SMARTboard Instructional Technology Facilitator – conducted PD with small groups
 * Creation of tracking system to monitor staff participation in professional development (online modules for formative assessments in the classroom); Gathered certificates
 * Participation in PLC meetings and department meetings
 * Leading of PD sessions - Internship Project (Literacy Through Technology)
 * Created work samples for PD and uploaded them to internship project website
 * Conducted PD with fifth grade teachers and lab proctor on Animoto and Go! Animate with lesson examples and rubrics
 * Evaluation of Literacy Through Technology internship project; creation of poster/presentation to inform principal and school for next year's professional development sessions
 * Meeting with teachers by grade level to discuss benchmark test data and resources the teachers needed

Coursework, Trainings and Readings
 * Facilitative Leadership Training: Practice and Reflection (Design Pathways to Action)
 * RFP: Differentiated Instruction Workshop – conducted professional development for Math and Reading PLC
 * Distinguished Leadership in Practice Assignment - Assessing Professional Learning Teams in Your School
 * Clinical supervision/classroom evaluation assignments
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">ASSISTments.org training

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Selected Artifacts

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Assessing PLCs and Learning Teams] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Paper Slide PD Agenda.doc] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Literacy Technology Online Tools (Handout).doc] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Internship Project Website]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**4b. Recruiting, Hiring, Placing and Mentoring of staff**: The school executive establishes processes and systems in order to ensure a high-quality, high-performing staff.

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Internship Activities
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Served on hiring team for new Career and Technology Education teacher at the middle school level
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Mentored four new teachers; provided them with tips, resources and a "listening ear"
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Reinforced teachers’ self-confidence (acknowledge them for specific accomplishments via personal notes, post-conference forms with teacher strengths listed)

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Coursework, Trainings and Readings
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Facilitative Leadership (Coach for Performance)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">DLP Training on using the coaching method
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">NELA Assessment Day – Teacher Improvement Plan

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Selected Artifacts <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">[|Individual_Meeting_with_Beginning_Teacher.JPG] <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">[|Offer to Help with Goal-Setting] <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">Thank You E-mail from First Year Teacher <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Teacher Improvement Plan Scenario <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Improvement Plan Created on Assessment Day

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**4c. Teacher and Staff Evaluation**: The school executive evaluates teachers and other staff in a fair and equitable manner with the focus on improving performance and, thus, student achievement.

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Internship Activities
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Conducted pre-conferences, teacher evaluations, and post conferences; gave timely feedback
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Review of observation cycle: video recording of pre-observations and post-observations and review with Executive Coach
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Participated in debrief sessions with principal and instructional coach following evaluations and observations
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Monitored and adjusted methods of evaluation and feedback sessions to meet needs of staff
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Created tracking system for teacher evaluation and observation/ walk-throughs
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Led goal-setting sessions for teachers

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Coursework, Trainings and Readings
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Teacher Evaluation Practice and Reflection assignment for Teacher Evaluation training/class
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Conducted peer evaluations using NC Teacher Evaluation Instrument as a teacher
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">RFP: Differentiated Instruction Workshop – conducted professional development for Math and Reading PLC
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Crucial Conversations and Conflict Resolution training
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Application of principles learned in “Attribution Error and the Quest for Teacher Quality”
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Operation NELA: Fellow 1:1 with a Teacher
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Presentation at Leadership Academy Quality Assurance Meeting about my experiences with teacher evaluation
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Created schedule and guidelines for peer evaluators to observe beginning teachers
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">//Educational Leadership//
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">//Working With and Evaluating Difficult School Employees// (Eller and Eller, 2010)

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Selected Artifacts

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Evaluation and Conference Schedule.docx] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|District-Level_Walkthrough_Form.JPG] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Student Engagement Walk-though Observation Form] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Teacher Evaluation Post Conferences <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Teacher Evaluation Forms Created For Pre and Post Conferences <span style="background-color: #fef7a0; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Revised Post Conference Form (After Executive Coach Feedback) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">"Praise, Question, Polish" Form Created to Give Feedback after Informal Observations