Standard 4: Human Resource Leadership
A. Professional Development / Learning Communities: The school executive ensures that the school is a professional learning community.
Team Meeting
In the picture to the left, I met with my team to discuss student retention possibilities. I also talked to them about the beginning of our after school tutoring program. The team and I decided on specific students that would participate in our after school academy based on benchmark performance data and teacher recommendations. As an administrator, I had the team share with me their rationale for student retention and how they would provide corrective instruction to promote student growth. The after school tutoring program was designed to support our "bubble babies" or students who have been identified, by EVASS, as borderline proficient.
The email below is an agenda for teachers as they prepared for the team meetings. I have learned that giving teachers a "focus" for the meeting, allows for meetings to operate much smoother and members are able to stay on task. As a future principal, I will remember this tactic and utilize it with my staff.
PLC pre- meeting agenda
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.
While working with my mentor principal to prepare for our after school tutoring academy, she charged me with creating the PAFs for staff members that our team hired for specific subjects. I sat in on their interviews, questioned candidates, shared my opinions of them with my mentor principal and hired the teachers that I felt were the best candidates for the job. Below is a picture of a Personnel Action Form (PAF) that I completed for each staff member that was hired for the after school academy.
Personal Action Form
C. Teacher and Staff Evaluation: The school executive evaluates teachers and other staff in a fair and equitable manner with the focus on improving performance and, thus student achievement.
As a principal resident, I was able to complete weekly walkthrough observations to support teacher and school improvement plan. The goal was to increase student proficiency and strengthen instructional practices. Prior to this year, walkthroughs were not a part of the regular observation process at RMS. After completing the walkthroughs each week, I documented my findings on the google forms to share with the administrative team. This was for the sole purpose of determining how our instructional focus should shift and what types of support should be provided to teachers during PLCs or staff/professional development sessions. Below are screenshots of the walkthrough forms that I used to observe teachers.
Walk Through Observation Form and Google Form Feedback