Standard 4: Human Resource Leadership
Principals will ensure that the school is a professional learning community. Principals will ensure that process and systems are in place which results in recruitment, induction, support, evaluation, development and retention of high performing staff. The principal must engage and empower accomplished teachers in a distributive manner, including support of teachers in day-to-day decisions such as discipline, communication with parents/guardians, and protecting teachers from duties that interfere with teaching, and must practice fair and consistent evaluations of teachers. The principal must engage teachers and other professional staff in conversations to plan their career paths and support district succession planning.
4 b. Recruiting, Hiring, Placing and Mentoring of staff: The school executive establishes processes and systems in order to ensure a high-quality, high-performing staff.
Working closely with our district Public Information Officer, Candi Horton and I created a recruitment video to highlight our district for potential new employees. We also created flyers to highlight our own school with specific details about working at the school.
As we interviewed different candidates through the school year, we realized the questions we were asking were not always relevant and needed to be updated, I created a new set of questions for interviews with a rating scale for each question.
4 c. Teacher and Staff Evaluation: The principal evaluates teachers and other staff in a fair and equitable manner with the focus on improving performance and, thus, student achievement.
We created an observation schedule to ensure each administrator observed different teachers within the different observation cycles. Throughout the year, I conducted 33 observations of teachers in different cycles of their teaching careers. When conducting the observations, I utilized the rubrics created through NCEES for each Standard to ensure teachers were objectively observed. The Blooms Taxonomy was utilized to determine the depth of instruction. Pre and Post Observation questions were utilized in discussions with teachers before and after observations.
Evidences for Teacher Standards by rating category (1).pdfRevised BloomsTaxonomy Verbs.docxNCEES-questions-5.11.17 (1).pdf