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Personnel

School & Community

Curriculum Instruction & Assessment

Budget & Program Evaluation

School Administration Comprehensive Exam

Brendon Derstine

James Madison University

Vision & Mission Statements

A Learning Community Advancing Creativity, Dignity, & Equity

Vision

  • All students can learn, and a growth mindset is of utmost importance in learning.
  • All children are unique individuals with inherent worth, value, and importance, and have different gifts, talents, and abilities.
  • Learning must foster connections with the outside world, across disciplines, and promote the development of the head, heart, and hands.
  • All students should be treated equitably, and receive appropriate interventions based upon their learning needs.
  • Collaboration is essential and must be focused on student success.
  • Creativity, innovation, and reflective practice lead to continual improvement.
  • Positive relationships between teachers, students, parents, and the community must be built on mutual trust, dignity, and respect, understanding our common objective is the success of all students.

Leadership & Decision Making

Governance & Decisions

  • Transformational
  • Situational
  • Distributive

School Structure

#1

Proffessional Learning Communities (PLCs)

#2

Instructional Team Leaders (ITL)

#3

Effective School Correlates

  • Clear and focused mission
  • Strong instructional leadership
  • Safe and orderly environment
  • Climate of high expectations
  • Frequent monitoring of student progress
  • Opportunities to learn and time on task
  • Positive home-school relations

A Critical & Holistic Curriculum

Educating the Head, Heart, & Hand

Singleton, 2015

Assessing Student Progress

  • Response to Intervention (RTI)
  • PLCs/ Collaboration
  • Student-Led Conferences

Types of Assessments

Balanced approach: Multiple choice v. performance assessment

Both are needed, yet performance assessment provides more authentic opportunities to develop skills necessary for life and career.

Assessment Philosophy

  • Aligned to standards
  • Authentic
  • Evaluate transferable skills (5 C's)
  • Accessible/equitable
  • Student-Led
  • Promote growth with feedback, critique, and reflection

Student Led Instruction (Berger, Rugen, & Woodfin, 2014)

  • Setting learning targets
  • monitoring own learning
  • Using data to show growth
  • Student-led conferences
  • Capstone projects/student portfolios

Standards Based Grading

  • Accurately describe student progress & level of achievement
  • grades are for communication
  • Students communicate their progress

Backwards Design (McTighe & Wiggins, 1999)

1) What is it we want our students to be able to know and do?

2) How will we know when we get there?

3) How will we support all students to succeed & what will we do for students who do not meet our goal?

Educating the Hand:

Experience, action, nonviolence, service, sustainability, & connections to the earth; providing for authentic & deep engagement in the learning process; creating lifelong, motivated learners

Instructional Methods (Marzano, 2001)

  • identifying similarities and differences
  • summarizing and note taking
  • reinforcing effort and providing recognition
  • homework and practice
  • non linguistic representations
  • cooperative learning
  • setting objectives & providing feedback
  • generating and testing hypotheses
  • advanced organizers

Educating the Heart:

Social & emotional intelligence, culturally competent engagement; the ability to interact with others of different cultures, to show empathy, compassion, care

Educating the Head:

Knowledge of systems, structures, and power; cognitive skills involving problem solving & critical thinking

Instruction

Assessment

Curriculum

GRADING

Personnel: the most important resource schools have

Supervision

Evaluations & Observations

  • Timely & descriptive feedback
  • Mulitiple observerations
  • Focused on growth

When hiring, do your research; attract the best and brightest. Know what you are looking for.

Ensure new employees get connected and have support.

  • mentors
  • frequent observations
  • reflection

Management by walking around; accessible & knowledgeable

Recognize and celebrate staff accomplishments:

acknowledge hard work, growth, and high achievement

Partnerships:

Families and communities are vital to a school's success.

Celebrate & engage with the diversity of the community.

  • PTO Potlucks
  • School/Community Picnics

Epstein's (2015) Six Types of Involvement:

  • Parenting
  • Communicating
  • Volunteering
  • Learning at home
  • Decision Making
  • Collaborating with the community

Be accessible to the community:

  • Principal's coffee hour
  • Community Advisory Committee
  • Get feedback

A Safe and orderly climate is essential to a school's success.

Reasonable and Restorative Discipline

Student Conduct

Discipline: to teach or train

Budget

A school budget is a reflection of priorities.

A school's highest priority is student achievement.

Program Evaluation

  • Continuous improvement is expected.

  • Programs will be evaluated and revised with feedback from all stakeholders to ensure they support the vision and mission of the school.

  • A needs assessment will be conducted when appropriate. Student success is the driving force behind the revision of any program.

Conclusion

The world is increasingly interconnected. Schools are becoming more dviserse and face higher standards for success. These changes cannot be taken lightly.

A holistic education that supports the vision of a learning community advancing creativity, dignity, and equity can meet these challenges.

Thank you for your time.

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