With a group of grant writing team members in the All-boys program, I have lead the process of writing a grant to the Target Foundation for funds to allocate towards participating in the EDGE program at George Mason University. Since the field trip is relatively expensive for the amount of funding available and our school …
Category: Collective Record – Final Documentation
Apr 28
Standard 6: Student Advocacy Plan
Within the All-boys program, I have started an advocacy program (The House Council) that targets the two areas of growing concern for our middle school boys. One facet of the council is to provide a system for the All-boys program to voice their ideas and concerns to administration and house leaders (teachers). Secondly, it provides …
Apr 28
Standard 6: School Board Meeting
School Board Meeting Agenda 4-6-16 I attended the controversial school board meeting held on April 6, 2016. The most intriguing discussion/debate was in regards to the renaming of Godwin Middle School. The neutral stance of school leaders was the most note-worthy. When discussing the controversial topic, school leaders provided clear, concise details for the reasoning …
Apr 28
Standard 4: Involving Parents in Student Learning
As a Principal’s Advisory Council (PAC) member, I actively participated with key stakeholders (administration, teachers, parents, community members, and students) in order to impact student learning. Over the course of the school year, I have participated in four PAC meetings. The outcome of these meetings has resulted in an increased awareness for students’ needs by …
Feb 05
Standard 4: Improving visibility/communication with the community
My Twitter WMS Twitter In order to improve visibility and communication with our school community, I wanted to receive the parents’ opinions on how this may be effectively accomplished. After of our meeting, we came to the conclusion that the use of social media would be the most effective way to communicate with our school community. Our …
Nov 10
Standard 3: Participate in developing the school budget
As a part of the Principal’s Advisory Council and intern, I worked with administrators and lead teachers to develop a balanced budget with minimal impact on student learning as our primary goal. As the administrative intern, I was given the duty of assessing the cost of supports (specific to technology) for student learning. Working with …
Oct 14
Standard 2: Staff Development Project
Through my data analysis of our school’s SIP, I was able to identify the All-boys program as an area of improvement. Through my 5 years of experience as an All-boys teacher, I have seen many of our veteran teachers leave the All-boys program to seek other opportunities. Since the majority of our All-boys teachers have …
Oct 13
Standard 1: SIP member
As Woodbridge Middle School’s SIP member, I was an active participant in setting and improving on our improvement targets. Periodically, throughout the Spring, Summer and Fall we would meet together as a committee and discuss our school’s data and report from the State. When analyzing the data, we compared our data/AMO’s to similar regional schools. …
Oct 13
Standard 2: Implement and Evaluate SIP
Prior to starting my internship experience, I was a participant in Woodbridge Middle School’s School Improvement Plan committee. After developing my own SIP, I have used my own data analysis to become a more active participant and offer varying improvement targets and proposals. While looking at our school’s SOL data, I have noted that our …
Oct 06
Standard 5: SPED Placement Meetings
Throughout the late summer and early fall, Elizabeth Vaughan Elementary conducted several special education placement meetings. My supervisor believed these meetings would be “controversial” and would be good experiences. During these meetings, I acted as an observer by watching how the administrators conducted the meeting and dealt with hostile parents. Through my observations, I learned …
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