Strategies
The building administrator focuses on improving instruction, achieving learning goals, and building leadership capacity. The principal conveys to all stakeholders a clear vision and mission while building and sustaining teacher capacity through targeted professional development, collaboration, achieving academic goals by retaining high-quality teachers, and improving overall instructional practices to ensure students' academic success.
Strategies for School Improvement
Create a shared vision.
Create goals and action steps.
Develop school system and routines.
Design clear, standards-based learning targets that are communicated to students.
Consistently review data from multiple data points to modify plans and focus on students’ needs.
Engage students in rigorous academic instruction.
Use technology to foster engagement, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration.
Create learning opportunities that include higher-level thinking and questioning.
Frequent formative assessment to adjust to instructional needs of students.
Provide timely feedback to students.
Consistently build and develop teachers’ capacity through professional learning and collaboration.
Consistent walkthroughs coupled with formal, and informal observations.
Provide timely feedback to teachers.
Identify and develop teacher leaders.
Involve stakeholders in the process.
Ask for help when needed!
Strategies for Evaluating School Progress
Our World Learning Academy will use the division online evaluation program to develop and monitor professional goals and student achievement data, per district policy.
At the beginning of the year, teachers will upload their professional goals and the data set used to create their goals.
Throughout the school year, formal and informal evaluations, and walkthroughs will be completed by building level administration.
Administration, leadership team, and teachers will analyze data weekly, monthly, and quarterly for planning, alignment, evidence of growth, and student success in reaching academic goals.
Professional learning collaboration will aligned and address areas which shows evidence for growth.
Professional goals are revisited mid-year to determine teacher progress towards achieving the determined goal.
Professional goals are revisited at the end of the school year, by both teachers and administrators to determine if the goal was achieved.
Assessment, intervention, monitor, and evaluate effectiveness of intervention. REPEAT
“Exemplary leaders make a commitment to foster collaboration by creating a climate of trust and facilitating relationships”
(Kouzes & Posner, 2017).Strategies for Promoting a Positive School Culture
As the builder administrator I will effectively and clearly communicates the vision of the school and the message of change, as I create opportunities for the leadership team and teachers to make decisions and act on their decisions through collaboration and trust.
Rules to Live by
Model the way.
Praise publicly. Correct privately.
Ask, do not tell.
Seek first to understand, then be understood (Covey,
Seek small wins.
Elicit support and develop rapport with the community.
Seek input from all stakeholders.
Admit when you got it wrong.
Have courageous conversations.
Do what you say you will do (Kouzes & Posner, 2017)
Be a reflective practitioner.
Smile. Tomorrow is another day.
Principals as Instructional Supervisors
"Principals who are school leaders should consider the influence of teachers’ instructional behaviors while emphasizing their own roles in instructional supervision. To positively affect teachers’ quality, principals must engage teachers in ways that support improved practice and seek to empower teachers as creative and innovative"(Chien Chin Chen, 2018).
Strategies for Supervising Instruction
The aims of instructional supervision are as follows:
to provide immediate and effective feedback to teachers.
to diagnose, identify, and provide opportunities for teachers to address areas of concerns.
to provide professional learning opportunities to build instructional practices to real -world learning and collaboration with other educators.
to evaluate teachers for effectiveness in instructional practices to assist students in making academic gains.
to encourage teachers to be creative, innovative, and reflective practitioners.