Standard 4: Learning & Instruction

Standard 4: Learning and Instruction: Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation program understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to evaluate, develop, and implement coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, data systems, supports, and assessment.

Component 4.1: Program completers understand and can demonstrate the capacity to evaluate, develop, and implement high-quality, technology-rich curricula programs and other supports for academic and non-academic student programs. 

Component 4.2: Program completers understand and can demonstrate the capacity to evaluate, develop, and implement high-quality and equitable academic and non-academic instructional practices, resources, technologies, and services that support equity, digital literacy, and the school’s academic and non-academic systems.

Component 4.3: Program completers understand and can demonstrate the capacity to evaluate, develop, and implement formal and informal culturally responsive and accessible assessments that support data-informed instructional improvement and student learning and well-being. 

Component 4.4: Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to collaboratively evaluate, develop, and implement the school’s curriculum, instruction, technology, data systems, and assessment practices in a coherent, equitable, and systematic manner.

NPBEA. (2018). National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP) Program Standards - Building Level. Retrieved from: www.npbea.org. 

Artifact 1: Below you will find a high school education course that I created according to the Iowa Teaching Standards. This course is implemented to allow for high school students to explore what it would be like to go into teaching. It contains a course syllabus along with a school-wide component for participants of the program to coordinate with teachers within the school district to connect, learn, and grow.

Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ssUYoe6ylDIxrMHWBOyGT9-otS43BssitA3irO0VgRY 

Artifact 2: Below is a reflection and plan during our ELD 277 course centered around special education. In this course, I was able to plan out the many ways I could involve myself within our special education departments. I met with my building principal and sharing information about special education that I learned during this course. We noted relevant trends and changes to special education throughout the past decade. In the document below, I mention the importance for special education students to also be provided with the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities. This goal has been achieved and we had a number of special education students actively participate in activities alongside the school while maintianing good grades.