Standard 7. School Improvement.

Effective educational leaders act as agents of continuous improvement to promote each student’s academic success and well-being. Effective leaders:
a) Seek to make school more effective for each student, teachers and staff, families, and the community.
b) Use methods of continuous improvement to achieve the vision, fulfill the mission, and promote the core values of the school.
c) Prepare the school and the community for improvement, promoting readiness, an imperative for improvement, instilling mutual commitment and accountability, and developing the knowledge, skills, and motivation to succeed in improvement.
d) Engage others in an ongoing process of evidence-based inquiry, learning, strategic goal setting, planning, implementation, and evaluation for continuous school and classroom improvement.
e) Employ situationally-appropriate strategies for improvement, including transformational and incremental, adaptive approaches and attention to different phases of implementation.
f) Assess and develop the capacity of staff to assess the value and applicability of emerging educational trends and the findings of research for the school and its improvement.
g) Develop technically appropriate systems of data collection, management, analysis, and use, connecting as needed to the district office and external partners for support in planning, implementation, monitoring, feedback, and evaluation.
h) Adopt a systems perspective and promote coherence among improvement efforts and all aspects of school organization, programs, and services.
i) Manage uncertainty, risk, competing initiatives, and politics of change with courage and perseverance, providing support and encouragement, and openly communicating the need for, process for, and outcomes of improvement efforts.
j) Develop and promote leadership among teachers and staff for inquiry, experimentation and innovation, and initiating and implementing improvement.

GELS 7 activity: Recognize Teacher of the Month 

Reflection

Each month the school will recognize a special teacher.  The teacher of the month will be voted on by the faculty.  Each teacher who wins the award will receive recognition in the paper, their own personal parking space for the month, a $50 gift card to the mall, and a $25 gift card for a nice restaurant.

This will allow individual teachers to be recognized for their hard work and dedication to education.  It will mean more to that individual since they were voted on by their peers.  It will allow that teacher to feel good about themselves and the jobs that they are doing.

GELS 7 activity: Begin a Volunteer Reading Program

Reflection

school will ask people in the community who would like to get involved with the school, but do not have children who are in school, to volunteer in a program for students with lower reading levels.  The volunteers may come in as often as they wish and read books one-on-one with the students. This allows people the opportunity to volunteer and get involved in the school even if they are not a parent of an individual within the school district.  It also provides students the opportunity to better their reading abilities and to get to know people within the community.