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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**// //**i**////**ts preferred**// //**future and then**// **//developing a pathway to reach//** //**it.**//



**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.**

__**Internship Activities**__ __**Coursework and Trainings**__
 * Creation and revision of personal vision statement
 * Served as a member of SPMT (Staff Parent Management Team)
 * Participated in mid-year revisions of AES vision, mission, and belief statements
 * Internship Project ~ Theory of Action BEARS matrix for PBIS
 * Letter of introduction to staff
 * Visit to A.B. Combs Leadership Magnet Elementary School in Raleigh, NC
 * Visits to Gaston College Preparatory and Bertie Middle Schools
 * Visit to Beddingfield High School in Wilson, NC - one of the "Turnaround" High Schools recognized by DPI for high student performance
 * Distinguished Leadership in Practice (DLP) Training – discussion with principal about school’s vision (school vision, mission)
 * Schooling by Design training that included protocols for creating and articulating mission and vision regularly in incorporating them into the daily operation of the school
 * Facilitative Leadership training including specific training on sharing a compelling vision, having maximum appropriate involvement and building consensus.

__**Readings**__
 * Bolman & Deal
 * Leading Change by Carter
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Tinkering Towards Utopia
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Trust Matters
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Cultural Change
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Dale Carnege
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Crucial Conversations
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The School Leaders our Children Deserve
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Seven Keys to Equity
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Schooling by Design
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Leading in a Culture of Change

__**Artifacts and Documentation**__
 * [[file:nela1rose/Discipline Survey.html|Discipline Survey ~ emailed to staff for input on Discipline @ AES]]
 * [[file:nela1rose/BEARS PBIS logic model.pdf|BEARS PBIS logic model]]
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Parent Team Agendas
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Parent Teacher Student Organization Programs





===<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**1b. Leading Change: The school executive articulates a vision, and implementation strategies, for improvements and changes which result in improved achievement for all students.** ===

__**Internship Activities**__
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">Internship Project (PBIS with a mental health integration)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">Worked with staff on implementing PLCs and identifying "Codes of Cooperation" for each grade level.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">Conducted PLC on essential questions
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">Worked collaboratively with the School Improvement Team to identify revisions to the School Improvement Plan
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Worked collaboratively with the School Improvement Team to revise the school's vision and mission statements
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Worked collaboratively with a team of teachers in a staff meeting facilitated by mentor principal to complete an activity that identified strategies to address one of the weaknesses identified in the North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Worked collaboratively with my mentor principal, Administrative Intern, Demetra Lassiter, and fifth grade teachers during a PLC facilitated by the district Curriculum specialist to analyze the county's benchmark data and discuss an action plan to address the weakness
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Facilitated Professional Learning Communities to help teachers identify instructional strategies to increase student learning across the curriculum.

__**Coursework, Trainings and Readings**__
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">Digital Storytelling Retreat with Llano Grande in Nags Head, NC – community digital story on Hertford County
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">Participated in NELA class on Culture and Change; read, discussed and presented on selected passages from Leading Change (Kotter, 2006) and Leading in a Culture of Change (Fullan 2001)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px;">Analyzed Teacher Working Conditions (TWC) survey for Distinguished Leaders in Practice training
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Bolman & Deal
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Leading Change by Carter
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Tinkering Towards Utopia
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Trust Matters
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Cultural Change
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Dale Carnegie
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Crucial Conversations
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">The School Leaders our Children Deserve
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Seven Keys to Equity
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Schooling by Design
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Leading in a Culture of Change

__**Artifacts and Documentation**__
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">Assessing and Enhancing Your School's Identity - DLP
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">[[file:nela1rose/Reflecting and Selecting.pdf|DLP assignment ~ Analysis of 2010 Teacher Working Conditions Survey @ AES]]
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">[[file:nela1rose/SPMT Vision and Misson Statements.pdf|SPMT Agenda Vision and Mission Statements]]
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">[[file:nela1rose/SPMT.pdf|Notes from SPMT meeting 12/14/12 ~ Revisions of Mission, Vision, & Belief Statements]]

===<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**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.** ===

__**Internship Activities**__
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">Served on Staff Parent Management Team (SPMT); attended monthly meetings
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">Assisted in the mid-year revision of the School Improvement Plan
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">Assigned to assist 4th grade hall with instruction and discipline
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">Mentor to 4th grade teacher
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Senior Leadership Team Member

__**Coursework, Trainings and Readings**__
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px;">Distinguished Leadership in Practice Training (PDCA cycle) and analysis of SIP and comparison with plans from other LEAs
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px;">Schooling by Design
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Leading in a Culture of Change by Carter

<span style="background-color: #e1e1f4; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Artifacts and Documentation**__
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">Instructional Leadership and SPMT Process
 * [[file:nela1rose/Senior Leadership Team Meeting.pdf|Senior Leadership Team Meeting]]

===<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">1d. Distributive Leadership: The school executive creates and utilizes processes to distribute leadership and decision-making throughout the school. ===

__**Internship Activities**__
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">Internship project to expose staff to mental health materials and PBIS
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">Organized, supervised and coached SGA representatives to serve as ambassadors for "GRITS for Grandparents," facilitators for classroom PBIS role plays, and Hoops for Heart events
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">Gathered budget requests from 4th and 5th grade staff members to present to administrative staff, senior leadership team, SPMT, and to HCPS superintendent, Dr. John Fahey

__**Coursework, Trainings and Readings**__
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 25px;">Facilitative Leadership training including specific training on coaching for performance
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Dale Carnegie: How to win friends and influence people
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Trust Matters

__**Artifacts and Documentation**__ __****__
 * <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[[file:nela1rose/AES budget requests.pdf|AES budget requests]] **
 * <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[[file:nela1rose/District Problem Solving Team Baseline Survey.doc|District Problem Solving Team Baseline Survey-District Wide]] **