Leadership Flashcards
What is your greatest strength and weakness?
Strength: Developing shared leadership to foster systemic change, instructional leader - involvement in CIA & data analysis.
Weaknesses: cautious-don’t like to rush to make decisions.
Tell us about yourself and how you will support the requirements outlined in this position. - Why do you want to work for AVID
I have been fortunate to have served students and districts as a teacher, instructional coach and Principal. I believe the culture of excellence at Harelson be a part of an organization whose core values and mission have proven successful.
- Teacher
- Instructional Coach
- Principal for last 7 years in Salem Keizer SD and TUSD
- diverse high needs title I and bilingual schools.
- many opportunities for leadership and in supporting the change process to implement programs and systems that improve student learning.
- -AVID Elementary trainings
- -Literacy Squared EE research school w. U of C
- -Marion County Early Learning Hub pre-K program
- -University consortium - piloted intensive teacher prep
- -LEGENDS - Teacher/Admin Evals - InTasc & ISLIC
- -TUSD Principal Cadre leader/mentor
- -PBIS Trainer, coach, and SWIS Facilitator
- -Facilitate the District PBIS team
- -Training and coaching for 80+ schools
- -Implemented Response to Intervention, Data Teams, and PBIS models
Professional Development & Background
- GLAD - Guided Language Acquisition Design
- Systematic ELD and Constructing Meaning
- Literacy Squared Early Exit biliteracy model
- Literacy - Supporting a literacy model, guided reading, and inquiry based writing
- Close reading
- PBIS coaches trainings, SWIS Facilitator trainings
- Leadership practices - McRel
Discuss how you will ensure learning for all students.
Key responsibility for administrators
Trust & Relationships -> Cognitive Coaching
Teacher Quality: Support, Instructional Leader, PD
Effective monitoring of instructional programs can help ensure Stdnt learning.
Being involved in CIA and being an instructional leader means supporting teachers through the observation process. Observation and feedback is all about developing the knowledge and skills of teachers. Be visible and a resource for staff.
In order to ensure students are learning we need to effectively monitor their learning outcomes in an ongoing and informative process.
RTI Process - all means all. No matter who your child has they will receive additional time and supports to learn. Developed a tiered intervention system. Staff met weekly in PLC Data teams to analyze
Data and develop interventions.
Aligned instruction.
How will you support community involvement?
Parents and community play a pivotal role in successful schools. We know that when parents are involved - children are more involved and have more successful lives.
Providing opportunities for parental feedback, leadership, volunteering, and visits to children’s classes.
Parents and teachers should create improvement goals for children and work collaboratively to meet them.
Opportunities for meaningful input on academic decisions that impact learning.
It takes a village, and parents and teachers are on the same team–to help children become lifelong learners, successful people, and engaged citizen
How will support learning for all students?
Primary role is to ensure high levels of learning for all students: Building relationships, involvement in CIA, optimizing resources to support students and staff.
- support high quality instruction
- focus on reflective practice and growth of teachers (feedback and intellectual stimulation)
- Support best practices in the classroom - close reading, authors craft and integrating ideas and opinions (PD)
- create opportunities and systems for teams to analyze stdnt outcomes and reteach (RTI)
- Support teachers and families by opportunities for input and shared leadership
A parent is angry with your disciplinary decision regarding their student. They believe you have unfairly punished their child and demand you retract the punishment.
Parent relationships are always important and the first thing I try to do in these situations is listen to the parent and understand their concerns and encourage ongoing communication throughout the process. Once communication is broken it’s much harder to maintain ongoing relationship and solution.
- Understand the new information and present the facts.
- Review policy based on facts
- Assure the parent we both want their child to be successful and working together will lead to agreeable outcomes.
- Ask for more time to review all information before making any decisions -
Discipline can be a challenge. Having clear policies in place that have fair consequences and focusing more energy on prevention and students learning from their mistakes supports a positive learning environment. Students need opportunities to learn and grow, including making mistakes.
