Standard+5





**5a. School Resources and Budget**: The school executive establishes budget processes and systems which are focused on, and result in, improved student achievement.

Internship Activities
 * Assisted with development of Title I budget with focus on student achievement
 * Participated in discussions about use of funding from various budgets
 * School Improvement Team meeting to revisit budget after cuts

Coursework, Trainings, and Readings
 * Classroom discussion through School Law and Finance course of the federal and state budget, including history, implications, equity, uniform chart of accounts and effects of the Leandro decision
 * IEL Federal Policy Institute training

Selected Artifacts [|Grant Proposal for Basketball Court for Recreation Center] [|Grant Proposal for "Literacy Alive" for Recreation Center] Weekly Logs Documenting a Series of Budget Meetings





**5b. Conflict Management and Resolution**: The school executive effectively and efficiently manages the complexity of human interactions so that the focus of the school can be on improved student achievement.

Internship Activities
 * Participated in meetings with principal concerning arising problems/issues
 * Participated in meeting with parents sharing concerns about child’s learning and behavior
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Meetings with teachers having problems with parents and students

<span style="background-color: #fb7474; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Coursework, Trainings, and Readings
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Practiced strategies from Crucial Conversations, Facilitative Leadership and Dale Carnegie in dealings with students, staff and community
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">DLP Training on coaching
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Social Justice class sessions with Dr. Lynda Tredway from Berkeley University of California
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Operation NELA – middle school principal dealing with backpack search and t-shirt with innuendo
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Operation NELA – Fellow 1:1 with Student

<span style="background-color: #fb7474; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">Selected Artifacts

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|March Parental Contact Log] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Operation NELA for Law Class media type="custom" key="14271178" media type="custom" key="14271184"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**5c. Systematic Communication**: The school executive designs and utilizes various forms of formal and informal communication so that the focus of the school can be on improved student achievement.

<span style="background-color: #fb7474; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Internship Activities
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Assisted principal with e-mails and letters sent to staff
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Created a memo for principal to send to staff periodically
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Created a website for internship project
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Keep teachers up-to-date with happenings with students, schedule changes, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Daily interactions with parents
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Use of surveys, e-mails, school-wide announcements, face-to-face meetings to communicate with staff, parents and students

<span style="background-color: #fb7474; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Coursework, Trainings, and Readings
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Operation NELA – Letter home after weapon found on campus
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Operation NELA - E-mail about possible gang fight after school

<span style="background-color: #fb7474; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Selected Artifacts

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Memo for Dec. 12, 2011] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Internship Project Survey] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Letter Concerning Weapon] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Operation NELA about Possible Gang Fight <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">media type="custom" key="13288378" width="72" height="72" media type="custom" key="13288382" width="72" height="72"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**5d. School Expectations for Students and Staff**: The school executive develops and enforces expectations, structures, rules, and procedures for students and staff.

<span style="background-color: #fb7474; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Internship Activities
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Communicated with staff via e-mail and personal contact concerning lessons, student behavior and other concerns or requests in a timely fashion
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Monitored student behavior in cafeteria and hallway
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Breakfast Duty (weekly)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Created schedule and list of expectations for use of mobile computer lab
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Helped with discipline referrals to the office
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Handled numerous discipline issues
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Supervision of afternoon dismissal of students
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Worked with individual teachers to develop more effective grading system and progress reporting
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Created sign-in sheets for after-school tutorial program; supervised after-school tutorial on occasion
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Arranged for substitutes for teachers out sick or at trainings
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Created schedule for the school's picture day along with guidelines

<span style="background-color: #fb7474; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Coursework, Trainings, and Readings
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">School Law course that included training on the rights of students and teachers

<span style="background-color: #fb7474; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Selected Artifacts <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Breakfast Duty Schedule.doc] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Mobile Lab Checkout Sheet.doc] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Picture Day Schedule.docx]