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   **Strategic Leadership** School executives will create conditions that result in strategically re-imaging the school’s vision, mission, and goalsin 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.

**__Experiences & Selected Artifacts__**
 * Experience || Description || Artifact ||
 * Shared Vision || Each grade level holds parent assemblies to discuss expectations and visions for the school year. || Accountability Meeting ||
 * SIP || I worked with the SIT to identify school activities that are tied to the school Mission. || SIT Minutes ||

 **__ Coursework __**
 * DLP #1 Assignment
 * Vision Statement Assignment
 * Self Assessment
 * [[file:I AM.....docx]]
 * School/District Digital Story
 * Leadership Digital Story
 * Evaluation of Teacher Working Conditions Survey
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">AB Combs Visit
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">NC "Turnaround" High School Visit

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">__ **Specialized Training** __
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Llano Grande Digital Story Training
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Distinguished Leaders in Practice

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Related Readings__**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tinkering Towards Utopia
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The School Leaders our Children Deserve

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">**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="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Experiences & Selected Artifacts__**

> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__ Coursework __**
 * Experience || Description || Artifact ||
 * My Vision || I developed and presented my personal vision for this school year at the opening staff meeting. || [|My Vision - Jason.docx] ||
 * Letter of Introduction for Staff
 * Provided PD on posting student friendly learning objectives
 * Assisted in drafting faculty email concerning the display of work samples that exemplified higher order thinking and 21st century skills
 * Sharing of personal core values in weekly keynotes
 * Facilitated development of Literacy Framework
 * Introductory Letter
 * Fall 2011 Assessment Day School Culture Video
 * Facilitative Leadership
 * Crucial Conversations
 * Problem of Practice Phase #4

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">__ **Specialized Training** __
 * Social Justice Training
 * Crucial Conversations

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Related Readings__**
 * Bolman & Deal
 * Leading Change by Carter
 * 7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
 * Tinkering Towards Utopia
 * Trust Matters
 * Cultural Change
 * Dale Carnege
 * Crucial Conversations
 * The School Leaders our Children Deserve
 * Seven Keys to Equity
 * Schooling by Design
 * Leading in a Culture of Change

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">**1c. School Improvement Plan**: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The school improvement plan provides the structure for the vision, values, goals and changes necessary for improved achievement for all students.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Experiences__**


 * Experience || Description || Artifact ||
 * SIT || I worked with the SIT to identify school activities that are tied to the school Mission. || Leadership Meeting Minutes2-15-12.doc ||
 * PLC Meetings || I worked with the different PLC's to implement the school improvement initiatives of the SIT, such as PLC's. || Third Grade PLC Agenda 10-13.doc ||
 * SIP || As a reviewer for the SIT, I reviewed the SIP and shared my reflections with the SIT for them to vote on making adjustments. || SIP Reflection ||

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__ Coursework __** >
 * DLP #1 PDCA Cycle
 * Problem of Practice Phase #2

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">__ **Specialized Training** __
 * Understanding by Design
 * Facilitative Leadership

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Related Readings__**
 * Schooling by Design
 * Leading in a Culture of Change by Carter

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">**1d. Distributive Leadership**: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The school executive creates and utilizes processes to distribute leadership and decision-making throughout the school.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Experiences & Selected Artifacts__**

[|Teacher Leaders Roster 101.pdf] ||
 * Experience || Description || Artifact ||
 * Teacher Leaders || I worked with the following teacher leaders of the school. || [|Teacher Leaders Roster 1.pdf]
 * SIT Meetings || I attended several SIT meetings that are led by the teachers of the school. || [|Leadership Meeting Minutes1-26-12.doc] ||

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**__ Coursework __**
 * Facilitative Leadership

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">__ **Specialized Training** __
 * Facilitative Leadership
 * Crucial Conversations

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">**__Related Readings__**
 * Dale Carnege: How to win friends and influence people
 * Trust Matters