HTH GSE Conceptual Framework: Leadership
* Act as change agents within and beyond the school.
* Serve as effective coaches, mentors, and critical friends to colleagues.
* Build and sustain adult learning communities based on support, mutual respect, and continual professional growth.

 

Informal Observation and Reflective Conversation with a first year BTSA teacher

During the past year, I have also been serving my district as a Support Provider for the Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment (BTSA) Induction Program.  Throughout the year, I worked with three first year teachers providing them support in the classroom.  Each teacher had to complete several tasks through the Formative Assessment for California Teachers (FACT).  It was my responsibility to conduct informal observations and facilitate reflective conversations all focused on highlighting the individual strengths and creating next-steps for each teacher.  Below are links to two BTSA pilot documents reflecting my work with one of my participating teachers.  The first document contains extensive notes from an information observation, and the second document contains reflections from our post-observation debrief.

• Information Classroom Observation
• Post Observation Reflection

 

School Reform Proposal: Implementation of the E.M.E.R.G.E. Program

This collaborative proposal was created by my fellow graduate candidate Natalie Alli and I as an assignment for our School Reform class with Larry Rosenstock and Stacey Caillier.  But instead of creating a fictitious situation to implement a solution, Natalie and I decided to use our school as a means for us to promote positive change.  We are currently in transition, as our current principal is getting ready to transfer to a new school, and our staff prepares to start the 2009-2010 school year with a new leader.  Natalie and I would like to propose the idea of our E.M.E.R.G.E. Program to our new principal in hopes to bring our school, parents, and community closer together.

 

Peer Critiques: Using Video to Model New Protocol

This is a video that I created with my 5th grade team partners in order to provide a model to our staff on how to use a new feedback protocol for peer critiques.  After viewing one of my videotaped lessons, my partners and I taped ourselves going through the protocol.  Because peer critiques and lesson study was so new to our staff, it was our hopes that our video would be able to alleviate any anxieties and stress from teachers who were unclear of what the process could look like. I decided to include a few comedic surprises to lighten the atmosphere, and to show my staff that the new protocol didn't have to be formal or rigid.