Leadership Experience

Sammons Leadership Plan.pdf

Aspiring Principals Leadership Program 24-25

Cohort 4

As an aspiring leader within Ozark City Schools, I was honored to be invited to participate in the district’s Aspiring Leadership Program — an opportunity typically reserved for assistant principals. Through this valuable experience, we engaged deeply with The Leading Edge Model for Leadership, gaining a greater understanding of our individual leadership styles. Additionally, we explored strategies for effectively collaborating with colleagues who exhibit similar or differing leadership approaches, both within our schools and across the district. This program has been instrumental in preparing me for future leadership roles by strengthening my self-awareness, communication skills, and ability to foster positive professional relationships.

2020-2021 Approved Budget Expenditures.pdf

Sat on the "Budget Committee" as the Committee Chair 2022 and 2023.

Created Level 2 and 3 Discipline Referrals in Google Forms

CJHS Level 2 Student Behavior Notification - Google Forms.pdf

CJHS Level 3 Student Referral for Administrative Action - Google Forms.pdf

These Google Forms were created to track discipline data to use with our "Foundations team" to prevent misbehaviors and identify safety needs within the school building.

Created this "Formative Walkthrough Observation Form" to use to track teacher walkthrough data for assistant principal to use as we walked through classrooms together during my internship.

Formative Classroom Walkthroughs - Google Forms.pdf

Welcome Presentation I created to welcome our new teachers and introduce them to Coppinville and critical faculty members

Mrs. Sammons Version of NewTeacherOrientation2019

CHAMPS 101 2020

Champs Boot Camp for new teachers. This is a presentation that I taught new teachers to our school on how to use Champs in the classroom at the start of school

Use Lesson Plan template.jpg

Strategic Lesson Plan example given to new teachers to ensure they have a viable example as they get started on planning engaging lessons.

Data Based Reform Research Project for PLU's

Sammons_PLUACLD738EA_EDU5501_Showcase (1).pptx

Sammons_Wendy_PLUACLD738EA_EDU5501_Action_Plan (1).docx

Educational Leader/Head Beta Sponsor for the BETA Oklahoma Nationals Trip.

Upstairs Downstairs Brain Lesson

PLU project where we had to read as a group the a book called "Relationship, Responsibility, Regulation" Trauma invested practices for fostering resilient learners.

This was a lesson I created to teach my students about "flipping their lid" and learning strategies to bring them back to a clam space so that they don't react out of fear or anger, but when they are calm. This ultimately creates mental safety for all students.

Science Fair Founder and Coordinator

A middle School Student over all Regional Science Fair winner

These two students were two of three students we brought from our local science fair to participate in the regional fair. Both were winners at the regional level and won direct participation in Broad Com, a virtual world wide science fair for middle school students.

Community organizations volunteered to judge our Science Fair. This was a great way to connect with the adjoining military base . We made great partnerships and were offered a field trip for our STEM department to tour their simulations facility.

I organized and planned a field trip to Auburn University for all STEM classes at DA Smith. We toured the Engineering department and went to the Coliseum to view all the STEM and Engineering Fields that Auburn University had to offer students.

School Fair First Place winner

Student winning Greater Eastern Regional Science and Engineering Fair, Best of Fair Award

Awards student won at State Science Fair

Studnet was selected to have dinner with Engineers in Huntsville after State Scinece Fair.

Presenting at ISEF (International Science and Engineering Fair)

Student that won school Best of Fair Award

Former student was overall winner at Greater Eastern Regional Science and Engineering Fair

Regional Winners Moved to State Competion

As Science Fair Coordinator I had the privilege of attending the State Science Fair at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. This group of talented students created projects that they were passionate about and explored it in greater detail. These students worked very hard and impressed the regional judges. To move forward to state, students had to earn first place or greater. We had seven students achieve this task with no problem. Through this opportunity each of these students were recognized with a second place, third place, or honorable mention among all who participated at the state level.

International Science and Engineering Fair

I was selected to join the STEM-IQ team from Auburn University to attend the International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix Arizona, May 2019. During this trip I was asked to speak on the benefits the STEM-IQ grant offered our students and local fair to include support from university mentors in helping our program grow.

Founded STEM Program at DA Smith Middle School in Ozark, Al

Save the Animals Training

This training was offered by Auburn University through our regional AMSTI program. Through AMSTI regional director, I was able to become a part of the grant in its final stage. This program ensured that a STEM program in its infancy stage DA Smith Middle School would be successful. Students were able to explore their world at a deeper level through research and design.

Used the training I recieved at Save the Animals through Auburn University to begin a STEM program for 7th and 8th grade students.

I created opportunites for students to expand their knowledge by bringing in guest speakers from the community. This was an electric car and the owners demonstrated its technology advances.

Save the Animals.

Poster created for Save the Animals as a formal assessment of the learning process.

Bringing hands on learning to the classroom through project based learning

Students using Lego robotics. These were the first roboitcs kits that were incorperated into our STEM program.

Lego robots were the first robots incorperated into the STEM class

Programing the robot to move and pick up various items. Students then programed the robot to solve a community issue. Teams researched, designed and implemented their robot to demonstrate the task it was created to complete.

Middle School Volleyball Head Coach

High School Assistant Coach

Head coach of a middle school volleyball team requires multiple opportunites for leadership responsibilities. I created a budget, organized fundraising events, ordered supplies, organized play dates, taught skills needed for the game, built relationships with students, and scheduled referees for home game dates.

My last middle school volleyball team when they were in 7th grade

Coach Melanie Mularz and myself as we lead the team above to the State finals thier senior year. This concluded my seven years coaching volleyball.

State Finals

Created and Built Robotics Programs at DA Smith Middle School, Elba Elementary and Coppinville Jr High School

First Robotics Competition for Coppinville Jr. High School

Students learn to code through VEX coding system to move the robot. Laptops were used for codeing and reasearch in the STEM classroom

Students captured programing the new VEX robot to move and pick up various items. They then programed the robot to solve a community issue. Teams researched, designed and implemented their robot to demonstrate a task it was created to complete.

Wrote two separate grants to get the Elba City Schools Robotics Team Started

Elba Elementary Competed in their first Robotics Competition at Coppinville Jr High School and took 2nd place. This program was made possible through grants written by myself in 2021 and 2022.

DA Smith Middle School

Creating our own competition field to compete against each other to get our robotics program off the ground and to invite parents and the community stakeholders in to see what a robotics competition is like on a smaller level.

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