Standard 4: Human Resource Leadership
Principals will ensure that the school is a professional learning community. Principals will ensure that process and systems are in place which results in recruitment, induction, support, evaluation, development and retention of high performing staff. The principal must engage and empower accomplished teachers in a distributive manner, including support of teachers in day-to-day decisions such as discipline, communication with parents/guardians, and protecting teachers from duties that interfere with teaching, and must practice fair and consistent evaluations of teachers. The principal must engage teachers and other professional staff in conversations to plan their career paths and support district succession planning.
A. Professional Development/Learning Communities: The school executive ensures that the school is a professional learning community.
DPLC PLC Meeting Agenda
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Educators Handbook Review/Professional Development
During my first few weeks at Holton/DPLC, my Principal and I identified the need for clarity around Educators Handbook. We went through the system and noticed that many incidents were coded incorrectly as well students referrals were not written in a professional way. In this professional development, we wanted to clarify and model the way in which to code discipline write ups. Another focus of the professional development was to ensure our teachers understood how to write a professional discipline referral. At the end of the PD, teachers were put in groups and given discipline referrals that were not coded correctly and written unprofessionally. They were tasked with fixing the errors and rewriting them in the correct way.
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.
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DPLC Interview Question Tool
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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.
Formal Observation Feedback
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Canvas Lesson Feedback
As an instructional leader in our school, it is important to understand that the physical classroom is only a small component to the instruction that happens in our building. Doing walkthroughs and in class observations are important, but equally as important is the instruction happening in Canvas. So much of what we do through The Modern Classrooms Framework is facilitated digitally. It is important for me to give feedback to our teachers to help them grow in their digital classroom, as well as their physical. |
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DPLC Electronic Walkthrough Tool
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Student Engagement Measurement-Formal Observations
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