STANDARD FOUR- 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 that results in the recruitment, induction, support, evaluation, development and retention of a high performing staff. The school executive must engage and empower accomplished teachers in a distributive leadership manner, including support of teachers in day-to-day decisions such as discipline, communication with parents, and protecting teachers from duties that interfere with teaching, and must practice fair and consistent evaluation of teachers. The school executive must engage teachers and other professional staff in conversations to plan their career paths and support district succession planning. standard and add content for each part of the standard including artifacts and descriptions of those artifacts.
A) Professional Development/ Learning Communities
The school executive ensures that the school is a professional learning community. While at Merrick- Moore Elementary one PLC per week was typically reserved for in-house professional development. These PD's are lead by teacher leaders, instructional coaches and administration. I led several PD's associated with literacy and questioning. Example power point presentations are provided.
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B) Recruiting, Hiring, Placing and Mentoring of Staff
The school executive establishes processes and systems in order to ensure a high-quality, high performing staff. I had the opportunity to conduct interviews for several open positions at Merrick-Moore. We conducted the final round of interviews at Merrick-Moore and then discussed the candidates and came to a consensus on who would best fit the school. The principal and team have collaboratively conducted these hiring processes, to include, resume review, interviews, reference checks, and HR recommendations.
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C) 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. |
In order to streamline this method and to provide quicker feedback during virtual learning. We were able to create forms that allowed for immediate emailed feedback to the teachers and stores the records electronically. In addition it gave the leadership team opportunity to analyze trends across the school by reviewing the graphs and spreadsheets that the forms generate.
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