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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 its 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 EXPERIENCES & COURSE WORK
 * Identified the need for awareness of vision and mission statements, incorporated it in all meetings and posted statements in all classes and in the main lobby.
 * Facilitated Professional Learning Communities on Strategic Goals.
 * Identified that changes would be occurring throughout the school year, developed a digital story on change and facilitated discussion with staff on change.
 * Conducted a survey to see how staff ranked the current mission, vision, and belief statement.
 * ====Created and revised personal vision statement. ====
 * ====Created letter of introduction to staff with personal vision statement incorporated ====
 * Participated in Distinguished Leadership in Practice (DLP) Training – discussion with principal about school’s vision (school vision, mission)
 * Participated in //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
 * Participated in //Facilitative Leadership// training including specific training on sharing a compelling vision, having maximum appropriate involvement and building consensus
 * Read and applied principles from //How to Win Friends and Influence People// (Carnegie, 1981)
 * Read, discussed and applied vision setting from //Seven Habits of Highly Effective People// (Covey, 1987)
 * Completed DLP assignment that required collaborative collection and rating of internship school vision and mission with mentor principal and select teachers, fall 2011
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Applied the PDCA cycle to study the processes used to establish vision and mission in the school, fall 2011
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Developed and shared a personal vision that reflected high expectations for student achievement
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Continually made changes to personal goals that reflected feedback data to improve performance based on Self-Assessments
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Created "I Am From" Poem during Training on Social Justice with Lynda Tredway
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Collaborated with Mae Rose and Mark Long to create a digital story on Hertford County
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Created Leadership Digital Story
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Evaluated the Teacher Working Conditions Survey from 2010 to identify the areas that were the weakest.

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">**__Related Readings__** <span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">SELECTED ARTIFACTS
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tinkering Towards Utopia
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">The School Leaders our Children Deserve

Poster of Bearfield's Mission & Vision Statement to be posted in all classrooms DLP Assignment on Mission and Vision Powerpoint used during PLC's to introduce Smartgoals to Staff "I Am From" Poem written during Social Justice training to define who I am

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">**1b. Leading Change**: The school executive articulates a vision, and implementation strategies, for improvements and changes which result in improved achievement for all students. <span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCES & Coursework > **__Related Readings__**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Facilitated Common Core training
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Conducted staff development with my mentor principal on Staff Handbooks for the 2011-2012 school year to ensure that staff had an awareness of changes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Identified the need for community involvement as a result, organized Read Across America Day and solicited readers from the community.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Identified the need for improvement in reading comprehension and vocabulary, as a result implemented the STAR Reading Program
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Participated in Digital Storytelling Retreat – community digital story on Hertford County
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">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: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Led conferences with teachers about using more interactive lessons with their students.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Analyzed Teacher Working Conditions (TWC) survey for Distinguished Leaders in Practice training
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Attended North Carolina Association of School Administrators Conference
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Completed Aspiring Leader Self-Assessments
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Collaborated with Demetra Lassiter, Mark Long, Mae Rose & Hope Walker to complete High School Turnaround Case Study on Beddingfield High School in Wilson,NC
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Completed Weekly Internship Logs
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Participated in Spring 2011 Assessment Day: - Letter home re: safety incident at school - Role plays re: teacher / student issues - Essay on articles
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tyack, D. B. & Cuban, L. (1995). //Tinkering toward utopia: A century of public school reform//. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">//Carr, P.J., & Kefalas, M. (2010).// Hollowing out the middle: The rural brain drain and what it means for America//. Boston, Mass. : Enfield: Beacon.//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chenoweth, K. (2009), //How it's being done//. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Meece, J. L., & Daniels, D. H. (2008). Child and adolescent development for educators. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Florida, R. L. (2004). //The rise of the creative class: And how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life//. New York: Basic Books.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Friedman, T. L. (2007). //The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century.// New York: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ruby Payne RTI
 * <span style="background-color: #f6f6f7; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Robinson, K. (2011). Out of our minds: Learning to be creative. Chichester: Capstone.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">90-90-90 Article
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Bell Curve
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why Reading by 3rd Grade Matters
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating the Opportunity to Learn, Nogero and Boykins

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">SELECTED ARTIFACTS <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Poster created to record the community leaders coming to read on Read Across America Day Copy of Nametag from North Carolina Association of School Administrator's Conference

Copy of Weekly Internship Log Copy of Read Across America Community Letter media type="custom" key="13142926" width="136" height="136" align="center"

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">**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. <span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">INTERSHIP EXPERIENCES
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Served on School Planning Management Team.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Attended School Planning Management Team monthly meetings.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Assisted in the revision of the School Improvement Plan.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Presented monthly tardy data to School Planning Managment Team and facilitated a discussion on what could be done to improve the number of tardies in per month.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Presented plans for Read Across America Day to School Improvement Team to get feedback.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Participated in Distinguished Leadership in Practice Training (PDCA cycle) and analysis of SIP and comparison with plans from other LEAS

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">SELECTED ARTIFACTS <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">DLP Assignment on the PDCA Cycle Copy of Information Presented to Bearfield Primary's School Improvement Team Read Across America Plans presented to School Improvement Team Bearfield Primary's Revised School Improvement Plan

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">**1d. Distributive Leadership**: The school executive creates and utilizes processes to distribute leadership and decision-making throughout the school.

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">INTERSHIP EXPERIENCES

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">SELECTED ARTIFACTS <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Copy of Internship Project: STAR Reading powerpoint <span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Identified Reading as a weakness based on benchmark scores, incorporated internship project, "STAR Reading: Improving the Reading Scores of Third Grade".
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">//Facilitative Leadership// training
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Identified the need for Math Intervention program based on benchmark scores, invited a third grade teacher to go ASSISTments training.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">Identified the need for community involvement, solicited assistance from Reading Specialists, Reading Coaches, classroom teachers, guidance counselors, and students for Read Across America Day

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Copy of a note from a third grade teacher who went to ASSSISTments training

Copy of duty assignments for Read Across America Day