Based on a school report card and profile, the document discusses providing a professional rationale about an area of strength and an area for refinement as a teacher. It states the rationale should consider how information from the school impacts cultural relevance in teaching. It also provides several links to resources on school report cards and data to review in order to analyze the school's information for the rationale. The rationale should address how identified areas will impact student achievement.

1. Professional
Based on your knowledge of the School Report Card, Links to an external site.school
environment and Focus Learner provide a professional rationale about your area of
strength and your area of refinement – what do you want to do better, why, and how will it
impact student achievement? You will need to consider how the information from the
school profile impacts how you will address cultural relevance Links to an external site.as
you teach in this school.Review a School Report Card of the school in which you are
working. If you are not working in a school, use this link (NYC School Report Card
https://tools.nycenet.edu/dashboard/ Links to an external site.and Long Island School
Report Cards https://www.longislandschools.com/long-island-schools-report-
card.aspx Links to an external site.), NYSED school and student
data https://data.nysed.gov/lists.php?type=school Links to an external site. NYCDOE Link
to School Quality Snapshots. https://tools.nycenet.edu/snapshot/2020/ Links to an
external site. Read: What is a Title 1 school ? https://educationpost.org/explained-what-is-
title-i-and-how-is-it-used-to-fund-our-schools/Links to an external site.Based on the School
Report Card and Focus Learner Profile, provide a professional rationale for your areas of
strength (“glows”) and refinement (“grows”) that addresses the following: