Standard 4: Human Resource Leadership
School executives will ensure that the school is a professional learning community. School executives will ensure that processes and systems are in place that result in the recruitment, induction, support, evaluation, development and retention of a high performing staff. The school executive must engage and empower accomplished teachers in a distributive leadership manner, including support of teachers in day-to-day decisions such as discipline, communication with parents, and protecting teachers from duties that interfere with teaching, and must practice fair and consistent evaluation of teachers. The school executive must engage teachers and other professional staff in conversations to plan their career paths and support district succession planning.
A. Professional Development/ Learning Communities: The school executive ensures that the school is a professional learning community.
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.
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.
A. Professional Development/ Learning Communities: The school executive ensures that the school is a professional learning community.
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.
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.
Artifacts
PLC Video/ PLC Notes
Conflict Resolution
Crucial Conversations
Facilitative Leadership
Operation NELA
Readings
On Common Ground: The Power of Professional Learning Communities (DuFour)
Reframing Organizations (Bolman & Deal)
The Ten Minute Inservice (Whitaker & Breaux)
PLC Video/ PLC Notes
- Professional Learning Communities are an integral part of our school. The video and going notes come from different PLCs that I attend and facilitate.
- This video provides insights and reflections resulting from an interview with the Associate Superintendent on Human Resources Leadership.
- My participation in the Northeast Leadership Academy candidate assessment day has helped me identify processes and develop skill sets that are necessary for recruiting, hiring, placing, and mentoring staff.
- This schedule demonstrates a proactive approach to the assignment of lunch times that are fair and equitable for all teachers without interrupting instructional planning periods and promote safe and orderly learning environments.
- This spreadsheet outlines the formal observations that I completed throughout the year. A post-observation conference was used to provide instructional coaching and support following each observation.
- I worked to establish a Teacher Assistant evaluation process that went beyond teacher input to include walkthroughs and administration input.
Conflict Resolution
Crucial Conversations
Facilitative Leadership
Operation NELA
Readings
On Common Ground: The Power of Professional Learning Communities (DuFour)
Reframing Organizations (Bolman & Deal)
The Ten Minute Inservice (Whitaker & Breaux)