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- 1. A Showcase of Best Practices In Becoming an Effective Leader! Mary Grace Phillips American College of Education
- 2. Learning Goal: An effective leader will be able to lead and support best practices to accelerate student achievement. Objective: Effective leaders will utilize frameworks and research based strategies to implement, monitor, and accelerate student progress, as well as increase the effectiveness of core instruction, promote collaboration, and ensure use of effective interventions. To include: identifying targeted groups that require additional support and offering support and professional development to faculty and staff to ensure all are offering a high quality education for all students.
- 3. What will guide a school on a journey to success? A Mission and Vision! Creating this with my leadership team improved my skills with communicating the importance of a shared vision for ALL!
- 4. Ways I have implemented best practices: Work with individual and small groups of students identified through data analysis Support lowest 25% Support MTSS Tier II and Tier III students Provide Professional Development to Build Capacity Lead and Support Common Planning and PLCs Co-Plan, Co-Teach, and Conduct Demonstration Lessons Assist and Support Leadership with Data Analysis Assist with Developing a Mission, Vision and Create Our School Improvement Plan Model and Support MTSS Problem Solving Process and Monitor Early Warning Signs Student Support 40% Teacher Support 30% Leader Support 30%
- 5. Student Support: An effective leader puts students first and promotes the academic and social success of all students. All means ALL!!
- 6. I want to lead by example and these are ways I have offered small group support for our lower quartile students!
- 7. • One on one support • Interventions • Progress monitoring • Build strong relationships with students and families My ESOL friends!
- 8. Support for E.S.E. students and teachers! • Support for teachers • Provide resources • Model lessons • Small groups • Build Relationships
- 9. I brought our 1st Annual Tropicana Speech Contest to Tavares Elementary! Improving our students 21st Century Skills This was a great opportunity for our students to learn and grow by preparing a written speech and with public speaking!
- 10. Student Celebrations Teacher Celebrations School- Wide Celebrations G-Great behavior R-Respect for all O-On task at all times W – Winning attitude L – Limitless learning PBS Another important way a leader can build capacity is to celebrate successes! These are ways I have celebrated success for all throughout the year.
- 11. My small group cheering after doing a G-o-o-d J-o-b! Listen….
- 12. Teacher Support: Through instructional leadership it was my intent to problem-solve potential instructional deficiencies that were identified through data analysis, to improve overall content delivery, and enhance professional development (American College of Education, 2016). We are all in this together!
- 13. Through coaching, classroom walk-throughs, and cooperative planning I have used this teaching map to ensure that our teacher’s instruction is to the full intent of the standards.
- 14. I believe it’s important to offer teachers support and time for collaboration!
- 15. I found using the PLC Process with fidelity kept us on the course to student success!
- 16. Coaching Support
- 17. • Model lessons for teachers • Model lessons for students across all grade levels (K-5) • Lessons include: • Informational Based Writing • Opinion Based Writing • Introduction of Writing Frame • Effective use of FSA Rubric • Open Response Tasks • Editing and Revising • Peer Review with appropriate feedback • Model lessons that include structure from “Writing from Beginning and Beyond” – Thinking Maps • Lessons focused on different stages of the writing process • Small group pull-out to work on specific skills • Mini-lessons to focus on areas of need for specific grade levels • Provide resources • Provide specific feedback/data to help drive instruction • 30 Day Countdown to FSA Effective planning and implementation for writing – my area of expertise.
- 18. Leadership Support: An effective leader implements skills, concepts, and practices to structure an educationally rich, positive, and safe learning environment (American College of Education, 2016). Leading By Example!
- 19. E.W.S. Data • Creating Pivot Tables • Consulting with Guidance Counselors • Supporting Students and Families • Monthly Monitoring of • Attendance/Referrals/ Suspensions
- 20. My leadership skills were strengthened by creating a scope and sequence for the year. •Stakeholder meeting to create scope and sequence •Aftercares apply & receive funding - 21st Century Grant •Collection of curriculum needed. •Community outreach to make all aware of programs offered. Aug-Sept 2016 •Family Night at school •Tours of facilities •Enrollment of students October •Pre-Test students to identify needs and goals. •Gather baseline data •Identify students November •Interventions put in place. •Supplemental materials/curriculu m provided • December • Continued • Interventions January 2017 • Mid –Year Assessments • Stakeholders Meeting • Data Analysis • Adjustments made as needed. February • Continued • Student • Interventions March • End of Year Assessments • Celebration of Success! • Stakeholder meeting – Evaluation of program • Proposed changes. April-May 2017
- 21. We are a “Thinking Maps “ school! This year we rolled out a continuing program called ” Write From the Beginning & Beyond” with 3 Sessions of Professional Development for grades K-1, 2-3, and 4-5. For my professional growth, I am a trainer for both initiatives. Professional Development Opportunities
- 22. Daily Duties Ensuring School Safety Cafeteria Duty Walker Duty Member of my Leadership Team for all Safety Drills
- 23. School + Families + Community = SUCCESS! The right kinds of school-family connections—those built on relationships, listening, welcoming, and shared decision making—can produce multiple benefits for students, including higher grade point averages and test scores, better attendance, enrollment in more challenging courses, better social skills, and improved behavior at home and at school (Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 2002).
- 24. I believe in family and community involvement and have participated in various engaging opportunities. Parent University STEM Night Donuts for Dads Book Fairs PTO (Parent Teacher Organization) Grits with Grandparents A breakfast celebrating Grandparents Literacy Night School Talent Shows Awards Ceremonies per quarter. Promotion and Graduation Ceremonies
- 25. Another professional learning opportunity for me was participating in the process of writing our school’s improvement plan.
- 26. I am so proud to be a part of this dynamic team and could not have accomplished all that I’ve done without them! “We work hard, but we have fun doing it!”
- 27. As I reflect on my internship experience, I’d like to leave you with my goals as a future educational leader….. It is my hope to build strong partnerships for students, instill the value of collaboration, have open communication, and a shared vision of increasing student achievement! “ Together we can achieve anything!” - Ms. Phillips
- 28. References American College of Education. (2016, September 12). Transcript: Introducation to the internship: standards and outcomes. Retrieved from Amercian College of Education: https://ace.instructure.com/courses/1470690/files/70918988 Lake County Schools. (2016, October 10). Lake County Schools. Retrieved from Lake County Schools: http://www.lake.k12.fl.us/Page/1344 Southwest Educational Development Laboratory. (2002). A new wave of evidence: The impact of school, family, and community connections on student achievement. Austin, Texas: Author.
Editor's Notes
- An effective lessons includes a learning goal to achieve and an objective for the lesson. Here are mine for educational leadership.
- Without a mission and vision there is no path to success!
- It has been said that a teacher can be the single most difference maker in a child's life. I want to be that positive “difference maker” for my students! I also want to demonstrate this for other teachers and so they will be, too!
- My hope is for each and every student to be offered the same educational opportunities, my teachers to offer all students a high quality education, and to provide a caring and safe learning environment for all to succeed, both academically and socially.
- These students are in our school’s targeted group of lower quartile students.
- Ensuring our diverse students needs are being met to promote their individual success.
- Making sure all accommodations are offered for these student’s individual success.
- Proficiency in Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening are needed to prepare our students to be successful in college and in their chosen professions.
- I feel, as a leader, it is so important to recognize all the hard work everyone is doing and to celebrate all the great accomplishments. This builds moral on campus and inspires all to do there best. We cheer, we “teacher bingo,” and we “get our G.R.O.W.L. on” with our Positive Behavior System. All promote academic and social success for our school.
- Click on the picture to hear the cheer! Enjoy!
- Working together builds strong relationships, provides equity among all, builds a schools capacity, and fosters stewardship.
- This standards-based classroom teaching maps aligns with our districts initiatives for delivering high quality instruction for all students.
- Collaboration allows each person to share their unique strengths and is proven to have a direct, positive impact on the outcome of a task or project.
- This process supports and aligns with our district and state requirements of following Florida’s Continuous Improvement Model (FCIM).
- This opportunity allowed for continual learning and professional growth for both of us.
- As a leader, I feel it is important to celebrate student successes and classes scoring the highest writing scores, in each grade level, for a final product (per 9 weeks) received my oversized inflatable pencil to display in their classroom. It was a great incentive and the students (and teachers) loved it!
- As my principal says all the time “Try to be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.” This is what I strive for and want all my teachers and students to strive for.
- These at-risk students were another targeted group I worked with and supported in an effort to increase their attendance and decrease their referrals and suspensions. Again, it’s all about building those relationships with students and letting them know you care!
- Effective planning leads to effective instruction!
- The implementation of this writing program offered students structured ways of organizing their ideas, based on specific thinking processes, and improvement in writing can been seen in all content areas across all grade levels. I expect the more it becomes embedded, the more improvement we will see.
- Some of the main factors contributing to school safety are procedures, schedules, and assigned duties for all faculty and staff.
- As a future leader I have realized that making these connections are imperative for improving student achievement.
- I feel that making these connections can also improve parents' feelings of efficacy and can also increase community support with providing the school with resources it needs to be successful.
- As part of my leadership team, this took collaboration, data analysis, and problem solving skills to create two clear goals, possible barriers, action steps, designating people responsible for carrying out tasks, progress monitoring, deliverables, and evidence to support our school’s 4 page plan. This was a lengthy process that took hours to create, however it was a huge learning opportunity for me.
- From left to right: Shaunna Purdy- Math Coach, Mrs. Durenda McKinney- my amazing Mentor and Principal, Me (Mary Grace Phillips)- Writing Coach and Potential Specialist, Lindsey Holmes- Literacy Coach, Judith Ann LeMoyne- Curriculum Resource Teacher, and Carol Peppers- Assistant Principal.
- Good luck to all of my fellow educational leaders!