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**3a. Focus on Collaborative Work Environment**: The school executive understands and acts on the understanding of the positive role that a collaborative work environment can play in the school’s culture.

Internship Activities
 * Participated in planning meetings with teachers including grade-level planning with principal and instructional coach
 * Led PD sessions on online tools available for literacy; led to more effective collaboration between teachers and lab proctor
 * Participated in PLC meetings with neighboring school
 * Meeting with principal, instructional coach and cohort fellows to discuss strategies for our internship projects

Coursework, Trainings and Readings
 * Site visit to Gaston College Preparatory: KIPP; presentation of methods used for ensuring collaboration among teachers
 * Site visit to Bunn High School where all teachers observe the classes of at least two of their colleagues over the course of the school year
 * Distinguished Leadership in Practice assignments on cultural leadership - Educational Garage Sale

Selected Artifacts [|Assessing School Culture - DLP] Collaborative Assignments 

**3b. School Culture and Identity**: The school executive develops and uses shared vision, values and goals to define the identity and culture of the school.

Internship Activities > <span style="background-color: #f26464; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Coursework, Trainings and Readings
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Internship Project - Phase I: School Profile from Public Data and Phase II: Detailed Examination of the School Community and Human Resources
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Participation on the Black History Month Committee
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Reading and application of principles from //How to Win Friends and Influence People// (Carnegie, 1981)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Reading and application of principles from article "Social Intelligence: The Biology of Leadership" (Goleman, 2010)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Digital Storytelling Retreat – community digital story on Halifax County
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Visited Chaloner Middle School with NELA cohort fellows for Middle School Developmental Project
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">NELA Assessment Day – <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 24px;">video response discussing key elements of being a culture shaper
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Instruction on culture and change - NELA class
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Social Justice class sessions with Dr. Lynda Tredway from Berkeley University of California
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">DLP assignments and training that included discussion and evaluation of school culture
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Studied three different cases - elementary, middle and high schools; discussed in groups three main areas needing improvement and three areas of strength

<span style="background-color: #f26464; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Selected Artifacts

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Black History Month Quiz Bowl.docx] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|"Social Intelligence" Ning Discussion response.docx]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">media type="custom" key="14478142"This video looks at the positive culture that Bunn High School has created. A team of NELA fellows (Doug Miller, Erica Shoulders-Royster, Shelley Williams and I) traveled to this school of distinction to gather strategies for establishing school culture and identity.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**3c. Acknowledges Failures; Celebrates Accomplishments and Rewards**: The school executive acknowledges failures and celebrates accomplishments of the school in order to define the identity, culture and performance of the school.

<span style="background-color: #f26464; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Internship Activities
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Attended an awards ceremony for eight teachers receiving grants from the county’s education foundation; wrote a news article about it for display in the office
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Letters/notes/cards to teachers who go beyond regular job duties
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Participated in culture-building activities at school (example: Potluck Lunch and Secret Santa gift exchange)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Participated in and led meetings about test data
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Included a "Shout Out" corner in the school's memo to staff to highlight staff members' contributions and/or accomplishments
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Creation of the "Attendance Stars" reward program; supervised reward activities
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Created Animoto videos of the celebration of the 100 Days of School and shared with teachers and their classes

<span style="background-color: #f26464; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Coursework, Trainings and Readings
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">Middle School Developmental Project - Created <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 23px;">digital story to showcase how RRGSD meets the developmental needs of its students

<span style="background-color: #f26464; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Selected Artifacts <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Jan. 16th memo.docx] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Eight Teachers at Hollister Awarded Grants.doc] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Game Time Reward Flyer.JPG] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Dress Down Day Pass.JPG] media type="custom" key="12871062" align="left"

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">"Attendance Stars" Memo to Staff <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">"Attendance Stars" Bulletin Board in Cafeteria <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Survey Results from Student Rewards Survey



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**3d. Efficacy and Empowerment**: The school executive develops a sense of efficacy and empowerment among staff which influences the school’s identity, culture, and performance.

<span style="background-color: #f26464; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Internship Activities
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Created Animoto videos using pictures taken for a Science lesson; shared with teacher and had the video posted on school website
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Meetings with teachers on effectiveness of school programs and ways they empower their students to become class leaders to help with teacher concerns (example: Grab N Go breakfast program where students take their breakfast bags to class so that teachers can have more instruction time. Suggested student classroom helpers for classroom clean-up)

<span style="background-color: #f26464; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Coursework, Trainings and Readings
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">DLP Training and assignments (assessing the effectiveness of the school’s PLCs using teacher survey and data from Teacher Working Conditions Survey)

<span style="background-color: #f26464; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Selected Artifacts

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Quick Note After Class Observation] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Quick Note Follow-up] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Link Provided by Teacher to See Class Video <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Animoto Video Highlighting Science Lesson

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