Standard+6

External Development Leadership

//**A school executive will design structures and processes that result in community engagement, support, and ownership. Acknowledging that schools no longer reflect but, in fact, build community, the leader proactively creates with staff, opportunities for parents/guardians, community, and business representatives to participate as “stockholders” in the school such that continued investment of resources and good will are not left to chance. **//



**6a. Parent and Community Involvement and Outreach**: The school executive designs structures and processes which result in parent and community engagement, support and ownership for the school.

Internship Activities
 * Participated in Parent Team meetings; selected as staff representative and served as secretary for February meeting
 * Home visits to the homes of students
 * Parent meetings and conferences
 * Meeting with PTSO officers
 * Participation in assembly programs
 * Assisted with planning of school/community events (SGA community projects including visiting local Nursing Home during the holidays with caroling and treat bags, Black History Month Activities, Tuskegee airmen visit AES, "GRITS for Grandparents," Night of Kindness and "Hoops for Heart" - American Heart Association).

Coursework, Trainings, and Readings


 * Community Internship & grant-writing @ Hertford County Cooperative Extension Office in Winton, NC
 * National American Association of School Administrators Conference, Denver, Colorado
 * Developmental Projects: Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary, Middle School, and High School
 * Distinguished Leadership in Practice Assignment: "Creating a Strong Internal and External Stakeholder Focus"
 * Facilitative Leadership
 * IEL Federal Policy Institute
 * Internship Project / "Theory of Action"
 * Internship County assets video
 * Legal Lesson Plan assignment
 * School Law & Finance course
 * School visits: KIPP: Gaston College Prep, Bertie Middle School, Beddingfield High School, Hertford County Alternative After-School program for students with long-term suspensions.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Social Justice workshop
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Special Education workshops presented by the NC Department of Public Instruction
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Practiced strategies from Crucial Conversations, Facilitative Leadership and Dale Carnegie in dealings with students, staff and community
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Llano Grande digital storytelling
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Payne, R. K. (2009). A framework for understanding poverty. Moorabbin, Vic: Hawker Brownlow Education.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Steele, C. (2010). Whistling Vivaldi: And other clues to how stereotypes affect us. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wood, C. 92007). Yardsticks: Children in the classroom, ages 4-14. Turners Falls, MA: Northeast Foundation for Children.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Theoharis, G. (2009). The school leaders our children deserve: Seven keys to equity, social justice, and school reform. New Yrork: Teachers College Press.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniels, D. H., Beaumont, L. J., & Doolin, C.A. (2008). Understanding children: An interview and observation guide for educators. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Patterson, K. (2002). Crucial conversations: Tools for talking when stakes are high. New York: McGraw-Hill.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Meece, J. L., & Daniels, D. H. (2008). Child and adolescent development for educators. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Convey, S. R. (2004). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Restoring the character ethic. New York: Free Press.

Artifacts and Documentation
 * [|Hoops for Heart ~ Ahoskie Elementary School's Team Page]
 * [[file:nela1rose/RAA_Appreciation_Certificate_1.pdf|Read Across America "GRITS" for Grandparents]]
 * [[file:nela1rose/Wilson Beddingfield School Turnaround.m4v|Wilson Beddingfield School Turnaround.m4v]]
 * Campus clean up @ Riverview Elementary

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">**6b. Federal, State and District Mandates**: The school executive designs protocols and processes in order to comply with federal, state, and district mandates.

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Internship Activities
 * Attended district-level principal meetings and led a book study review with Transformation Coach, Therese Wetherington and fellow NELA intern, Demetra Lassiter on // Annual Growth, Catch-up Growth. //
 * Attended & Facilitated district-wide Common Core trainings
 * Facilitated and attended PLCs; essential questions, proper protocol for PLCs, new district lesson plan implementation, Cornell note taking, Teacher evaluation instrument, etc.
 * Conducted walk-thru & formal observations, pre and post conferences with staff members
 * Participated in Manifestation Determination meeting
 * Attended RtI training with HCPS school psychologist, Lisa Frederes
 * Attended PBIS regional meeting
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">District Lesson Plan Format
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">School Level Walk-thrus on Ipads
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Shared 5-10 minute walk-thru forms used @ Centennial Middle School in Raleigh and was used by Senior Leadership Team @ AES

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Coursework, Trainings, and Readings > Artifacts and Documentation
 * Attended IEL conference in Washington DC
 * Data Boot Camp with NELA (EVAAS, DPI, Metametrics, NC Falcon)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Lane, K. E. (2005). The Principal's legal handbook. Dayton, Ohio: Education Law Association.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Schimmel, D., Militello, M., & Eckes, S. (2010). Principals teaching the law: 10 legal lessons your teachers must know. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Corwin Press.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Huefner, D. S. (2006). Getting comfortable with special education law: A framework for working with children with disabilities. Norwood, Mass: Christopher-Gordon Publishers.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Guthrie, J. W. (2007). Modern education finance and policy. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon. <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">
 * [[file:Common Core Schedule (Feb-2. 13, 2012).pdf]]