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 which result in recruitment, induction, support, evaluation, development, and retention of high performing staff. The school executive must engage and empower accomplished teachers in a distributive manner, including support of teachers in day-to-day decisions such as discipline, communication with parents/guardians, and protecting teachers from duties that interfere with teaching, and must practice fair and consistent evaluations of teachers. The school executive must engage teachers and other professional staff in conversations to plan their career paths and support district succession planning.**//



**4a. Professional Development/Learning Communities **: The school executive ensures that the school is a professional learning community.

Internship Activities
 * Participation in planning sessions with teachers
 * Participation in PLC meetings and department meetings
 * Leading of PD sessions - Internship Project (PBIS-Bears acronym)
 * Attending and led portions of Monthly Staff meetings

Coursework, Trainings, and Readings
 * Facilitative Leadership Training: Practice and Reflection (Design Pathways to Action)
 * Distinguished Leadership in Practice Assignment - Assessing Professional Learning Teams in Your School

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Artifacts and Documentation
 * [[file:4th Grade PLC.pdf]]
 * [[file:Dr-1. Allen PLC.pdf]]

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**4b. Recruiting, Hiring, Placing and Mentoring of staff**: The school executive establishes processes and systems in order to ensure a high-quality, high-performing staff.

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Internship Activities
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Served on interview committee for eight prospective teachers for four openings
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Mentor for new teachers
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Reinforced teachers’ self-confidence (acknowledge them for specific accomplishments via personal notes, post-conference forms with teacher strengths listed)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Notes left for all student teachers and career teachers after walk-thrus, observations, and evaluations with positive feedback and an area to focus on for improvement
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Worked with 5 new teachers on developing their portfolios and presentations to be delivered at their schools and HCPS Board meeting

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Coursework, Trainings, and Readings
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Facilitative Leadership (Coach for Performance)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">DLP Training on using the coaching method
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">NELA Assessment Day – Teacher Improvement Plan
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Mock Interview with Cohort II members

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Artifacts and Documentation
 * [[file:nela1rose/TADA_Rose_2-3_.pdf|Teacher Action Development Plan]]
 * [[file:nela1rose/Mentor Log Form 09-10.doc|Mentor Log Form used for New 4th Grade ELA teacher]]

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**4c. 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.

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Internship Activities
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Conducted pre-conferences, teacher evaluations, and post conferences; gave timely feedback
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Review of observation cycle: pre and post-conferences and observation with fellow NELA fellow, Demetra Lassiter and Mentor Principal
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Participated in debrief sessions with assistant and principal coaches following evaluations and observations
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Monitored and adjusted methods of evaluation and feedback sessions to meet needs of staff

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Coursework, Trainings, and Readings <span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Artifacts and Documentation
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Teacher Evaluation Practice and Reflection assignment for Teacher Evaluation training/class
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Conducted peer evaluations using NC Teacher Evaluation Instrument as a teacher
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Crucial Conversations and Conflict Resolution training
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Application of principles learned in “Attribution Error and the Quest for Teacher Quality”
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">//Educational Leadership//
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">//Working With and Evaluating Difficult School Employees// (Eller and Eller, 2010)
 * [[file:Dr-1. Allen PLC.pdf]]
 * [|NC Teacher Evaluation Manual]