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Strategic Leadership
School executives will create conditions that result in strategically re-imaging the school’s vision, mission, and goals in the 21st century. Understanding that schools ideally prepare students for an unseen but not altogether unpredictable future, the leader creates a climate of inquiry that challenges the school community to continually re-purpose itself by building on its core values and beliefs about its preferred future and then developing a pathway to reach it.


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1a. School Vision, Mission and Strategic Goals: The school’s identity, in part, is derived from the vision, mission, values, beliefs and goals of the school, the processes used to establish these attributes, and the ways they are embodied in the life of the school community.

Experiences
  • Personal vision statement embedded in letter of introduction to staff
  • Reviewed the school’s mission, vision, values, and beliefs
  • Revisited the school’s School Improvement Plan
  • Led staff meeting January 2012
  • Co-facilitated w/mentor principal READY material to Terrell Lane Middle School March 2012
  • Leadership Digital Story
  • Evaluation of overall school data – School Report Card, Teacher Working Conditions Survey, and Attendance

Coursework
  • DLP assignment required collaborative collection and rating of internship school vision and mission with mentor principal and select teachers, fall 2011.
  • Applied the PDCA cycle to study the processes used to establish vision and mission in the school, fall 2011
  • Vision Statement Assignment
  • With Self Assessment assignments, fellow made continual changes to personal goals that reflected feedback data to improve performance.
  • “I Am From” Poem
  • School/District Digital Story
  • Leadership Digital Story
  • Evaluation of Teacher Working Conditions Survey

Specialized Training
  • Facilitative Leadership
  • Social Justice
  • Llano Grande Digital Story Training
  • Distinguished Leaders in Practice
  • A.B. Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary School Visit
  • NC “Turnaround” High School Visit to Bunn High School, Franklin County
  • Additional School visits to KIPP: Gaston College Preparatory, Bertie Middle School, East Garner IB Magnet Middle School, Olive Chapel Elementary School, Northside Elementary School
  • Understanding By Design workshop

Related Readings
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
  • Tinkering Towards Utopia
  • The School Leaders our Children Deserve

Selected Artifacts

Introduction to Staff Letter

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Assessment of School's Mission and Vision - DLP Assignment #1


1b. Leading Change: The school executive articulates a vision, and implementation strategies, for improvements and changes, which result in improved achievement for all students.

Experiences
  • PLC Meetings
  • Participation in staff meetings
  • Professional Development Presentations Fall & Spring

Coursework
  • Introductory Letter
  • Fall 2011 Assessment Day School Culture Video
  • Facilitative Leadership
  • Crucial Conversations
  • Problem of Practice Phase #4

Specialized Training
  • Social Justice Training
  • Crucial Conversations

Related Readings
  • Bolman & Deal
  • Leading Change by Carter
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
  • Tinkering Towards Utopia
  • Trust Matters
  • Cultural Change
  • Dale Carnegie
  • Crucial Conversations
  • The School Leaders our Children Deserve
  • Seven Keys to Equity
  • Schooling by Design
  • Leading in a Culture of Change

Selected Artifacts

Logic Model
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Personal Vision Statement
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1c. School Improvement Plan: The school improvement plan provides the structure for the vision, values, goals and changes necessary for improved achievement for all students.

Experiences
  • School Improvement Team Meetings & Participation
  • PLC Meetings
  • Leadership Team Meetings

Coursework
  • DLP #1 (PDCA) Cycle
  • Problem of Practice Phase #2

Specialized Training
  • Understanding by Design
  • Facilitative Leadership

Related Readings
  • Schooling by Design
  • Leading in a Culture of Change by Carter

Selected Artifacts
INSERT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN AGENDA

1d. Distributive Leadership:The school executive creates and utilizes processes to distribute leadership and decision-making throughout the school.

Experiences
  • I observed & assisted my mentor principal in various capacities of distributing leadership to staff. I have also visited several schools and have discussed how responsibilities are distributed.
  • PLC Meetings
  • School Improvement Team Meetings

Coursework
  • Facilitative Leadership

Specialized Training
  • Facilitative Leadership
  • Crucial Conversations

Related Readings
  • Dale Carnegie: How to win friends and influence people
  • Trust Matters

Selected Artifacts

"Distinguished Leaders" Meeting
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