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**2a. Focus on Learning and Teaching, Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment**: The school executive leads the discussion about standards for curriculum, instruction and assessment based on research and best practices in order to establish and achieve high expectations for student.

Internship Activities
 * Modeled lessons for teachers
 * Assisted teachers with several lessons
 * Conducted classroom walk-throughs and observations and provided warm and cool feedback on lessons
 * Completed Formative Assessment modules on NC Falcon
 * Common Core Professional Development (DPI and district-wide)
 * Studied content pedagogy via working along side principal and instructional coach to administer assessments study results, analyze lesson plans and debrief after observations and evaluations
 * Created digital storybooks and uploading online for students to use during listening center; met with teachers concerning classroom implementation; completed evaluation of the digital books with second graders
 * Co-led a book preview so that students could give input on books for the library before purchasing
 * Worked with fourth grade teacher to implement ASSISTments in her class after NELA training
 * Worked with lab proctor on first round of Edmodo assignments
 * Provided formative assessment examples and resources for teachers to use in classrooms
 * Conducted student observations at teachers' requests
 * Participated in school-wide Data Retreats
 * Assisted with data analysis of benchmark assessments
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Participated in Student Assistance Team meeting
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Taught a lesson on the use of a thesaurus at teacher request using strategies taught via Internship Project
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Co-taught a lesson with second grade teacher writing letters to Career Day presenters
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Created several sample videos and lessons to model implementation of free online tools in the classroom
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Meetings with teachers concerning grading, progress reports
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Selected resources/materials and shared resources from my "Resource Lending Library"
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Participated in grade level meetings about classroom rigor, time management, assessments
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Worked with second grade teacher to implement student questioning for the "Read to Someone" center during // The Daily Five // initiative; created the questioning cards for both fiction and nonfiction books
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Analyzed data from a survey to fifth grade teachers and lab proctor about internship project (Literacy Through Technology)

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Coursework, Trainings and Readings
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 24px;">Developmental Projects (Early Elementary, Upper Elementary, Middle School and High School)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Literacy Instruction (three-day NELA training)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Turnaround High School case study and school visit
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Special Education legal literacy assignment
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Clinical supervision/classroom evaluation assignments
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">ASSISTments.org training
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Differentiated Instruction training
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Common Core training
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Reading and application of "Why Reading by End of Third Grade Matters" ((Fiester, 2010)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Readings from // Child and Adolescent Development for Educators // (Meece and Daniels, 2008)
 * Readings from //Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14// (Wood, 2007)

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Selected Artifacts

<span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|PLC Agenda] <span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Help with Assistments.docx] <span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Model lesson narrative.docx] <span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Pay It Forward Paper Slide Videos.docx] <span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Pay It Forward Recordable Books.docx] <span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Reading 3D Progress Tracker.doc] <span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|"Third Grade Reading" Ning Discussion Forum Response.docx]

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">This is a digital storybook that I created for student use during their listening center in their reading classes. I embedded questions within the story to promote making predictions.



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">**2b. Focus on Instructional Time**: The school executive creates processes and schedules which protect teachers from disruption of instructional or preparation time.

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


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">Assisted principal with scheduling (testing weeks, breakfast duty, etc.); assisted EC teacher with schedule
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">Volunteered to complete tasks for teachers (laminating, paper cutting, copying, etc.) so that teachers can remain in their classrooms
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">Worked with principal and instructional coach to redo daily schedule for 2012-2013 school year for more effective planning time
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">Created and implemented schedule for Career Day for presenters and class rotations
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 23px;">Taught several classes when teachers had to leave early for meetings or appointments
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Created packet of engaging activities for teachers for the week preceding Spring Break to keep students engaged and in the classroom

<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%;">//The Flipped Classroom// training
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">//Schooling by Design// training
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Analysis and application of principles learned from "The 90/90/90 Schools: A Case Study" from // Accountability in Action // (Reeves, 2005)
 * Analysis and application of principles learned from "Tipping Point Leadership" from the //Harvard Business Review// (Kim and Mauborgne, 2003)

<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%;">[|"The 90/90/90" Ning Discussion Forum Response.docx] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Note to Teachers Attached to Packet of Engagement Strategies <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Career Day Guidelines and Schedule

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