Standard 7

Foster a professional community of teachers and other professional staff to promote each student’s academic success and well-being. Education leaders promote each student’s academic success and well-being by creating and supporting a professional community of teachers. Building a community of teachers and other professional staff includes creating effective workplace conditions, promoting collective engagement and responsibility, and mutual accountability. Creating professional communities of teachers and other professional staff includes job-embedded opportunities that promote collaborative examination of practice and focuses on improvement of programs and practices. Effective leaders:

• 1. Foster supportive workplace conditions for teachers and other professional staff that promote effective professional development, practice, and student learning.

  2. Empower and entrust teachers and staff with collective responsibility for meeting the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs of each student, pursuant to the mission, vision, and core values of the school.

  3. Establish and sustain a professional culture of engagement and commitment to shared vision, goals, and objectives pertaining to the education of the whole child; high expectations for professional work; ethical and equitable practice; trust and open communication; collaboration, collective efficacy, and continuous individual and organizational learning and improvement.

  4. Promote mutual accountability among teachers and other professional staff for each student’s success and the effectiveness of the school as a whole.

  5. Develop and support open, productive, caring, and trusting working relationships among leaders, faculty, and staff to promote professional capacity and the improvement of practice.

  6. Design and implement job-embedded and other opportunities for professional learning collaboratively with faculty and staff.

  7. Provide roles, structures, opportunities, and norms to support collaborative examination of practice, collegial feedback, and collective learning.

  8. Encourage faculty-initiated improvement of programs and practices.

  9. Use data, including student performance data, to evaluate the impact professional learning has on the faculty and staff, the school/district, and student learning.

PSEL Standard 7 Summary

Standard 7 focuses on the principal’s ability to foster a professional community for teachers and staff to effectively provide an environment where students can achieve academic success. Creating a community of trust, effective professional development, and collaboration of teachers to support student learning is also a major focus of standard 6. This also calls for leaders to promote a sense of collective responsibility and mutual accountability amongst teachers. In order to establish these concepts, leaders must create a community of reflective dialogue, but also making teachers and staff feel comfortable in a safe space to make mistakes. PSII explains that when leaders create strong professional learning communities, teachers a able to work collaboratively to meet the needs of general education students and special education students. This also highlights the importance of creating a data-driven school culture to enhance dialogue, inquiry, learning, and decision-making.

Class Assignment = CA Practice-Based Experience = PBE

Artifact #1 Administrators Instructional Coaching Schedule (PBE)

Artifact 1 is an agenda for the Admin. instructional coaching, which involves teacher lead clinics. My role was to sit in with my mentor and observe the discussion around the "how and why" this was important.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VVa9Hes6dk74Ph9jZ7MAngFOYf9rc_StbpaDUh07Tw8/edit#gid=0

Artifact #2 2018 School-Wide PD Plan Breakdown (PBE)

Artifact 2 is an annual breakdown of the yearly PD schedule. My role was to observe and ask clarifying questions at the end of the session.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AlGfYB5sdeafElzo7qA4UvjJw-6VOjqC53OVnjUJ7Qk/edit#gid=0

Artifact 3 Lesson Planning Clinic Notes (PBE)

Artifact 3 are lesson planning clinic notes. My role was often ELA lead, but it was designed to present new agendas and have teachers collectively discuss possible strategies and effective instructional practices.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y49LFPqcNk3RsNTgWsNDpOY4R7yOttxgrQIJ6N6KM7c/edit

Artifact 4 Lesson Planning Clinic Guidelines (PBE)

Artifact 4 is a the protocol I created to help facilitate topics to be discussed and manage time more efficiently. I served as lesson planning clinic lead.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19RDDWxeAfg7C479pFFMbUBOmZQ3WC-fu9ilnw8p0V3M/edit

Artifact #5 Standard 7 Article Analysis (CA)

Artifact 5 is an assignment from course 8970 in which we had to find articles related to PSEL standards and write a summary. In our response, we also had to explain the findings, results and connection with the standard. We also could make recommendations based on the analysis of the article.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17I3Q_LeJjFDzlbfgtSfvt8REX4JPJFdYzMiUVRiE8Cs/edit