Leadership For Dalton

Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium

of the

Council of Chief State School Officers

COMPONENT A. 1.

FACILITATING THE VISION OF LEARNING

WITHIN THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY

Prepared by Educational Testing Service for submission under contract with the Council of Chief State

School Officers. Prepared August, 1999

FORM A

COMPONENT CHECKLIST

A. 1. FACILITATING THE VISION OF LEARNING WITHIN THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY

This sheet must be the FIRST page of this Component's submitted materials.

You must complete, sign, and submit this form for each completed Portfolio Component. Assemble the materials in the sequence listed below. Verify that all materials are included by checking the boxes next to them. Be sure to sign at the bottom.

o Component Checklist (FORM A)

o Candidate Feedback Form (FORM B)

o Written Commentaries and Reflection

o Supporting Documents (send duplicates only, do NOT send originals

o Total number of pages submitted for this component (count this page, all other form pages, supporting documents, and your written responses): ______pages

FORM B

CANDIDATE FEEDBACK FORM

COMPONENT.A.1. FACILITATING THE VISION OF LEARNING WITHIN THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY

Upon completion of this Component, fill out this Feedback Form and place it directly after Form A with the

materials you submit for this Component.

1. Circle the number on the rating scale that best represents your response to each question.

Strongly / Agree / Disagree / Strongly
Agree / Disagree
• The component directions are clear and easy to follow 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
• The component measures skills and knowledge that 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
are important for effective school leadership
• The activities and tasks associated with the component 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
represent authentic (realistic) leadership practices
• The content and nature of the component are fair and 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
reasonable

2. Approximately how much time (in hours) did you spend completing your portfolio component?

3. Was the number of pages allotted to you for writing your reflection and each of your commentaries adequate?

(Circle one)

YES NO

If not, please give a brief explanation of your response in the space below.

4. Was the number of pages allotted to you for supporting materials adequate? (Circle one)

YES NO

If not, please give a brief explanation of your response in the space below.

5. Was the process of completing the portfolio component a worthwhile professional development experience? (Circle One)

YES NO

Please give a brief explanation of your response in the space below.

6. Were the supporting materials helpful to you in completing your portfolio component? (Circle one) YES NO

Please give a brief explanation of your response in the space below.

7. What were some of the difficulties or problems you encountered in completing this component? [Consider such things as following the directions and instructions, identifying appropriate scenarios, choosing student work, knowing how best to present (highlight, make clear, select and explain) evidence of your leadership practices.]

8. In the space below, please add any comments that you would like to share regarding the component or the experience of completing the component.

INTRODUCTION

Focus

The focus of this component is your analysis of important aspects of your school or district in terms of their impact on student learning.

Overview

You will present documents and written commentary that, taken together, clearly demonstrate your knowledge of your school or district. You will identify and describe significant aspects of the community, the students, the organizational structure, and the instructional programs of your school or district; you will analyze how these particular factors impact student learning and how they have shaped your activities as a school leader. You will write one commentary in response to specific questions, and you will write one reflection which will enable you to analyze the strengths and needs of your school or district.

Before you begin it is critical that you first read through all the material contained in the Candidate Bulletin and in this Component. Be sure you understand and are completely familiar with all the questions, directions, strategic decisions, scoring criteria, and all other relevant material.

Standards The Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards for School Leaders will frame and guide the work that you will do for this component. The specific standards and indicator statements measured by this component are included at the end of this Component in the section EVALUATION CRITERIA. It is critical that you read and understand the importance of these standards before you begin this assessment activity. The score you receive on your Portfolio will be a direct reflection of how well you understand and implement these standards as you carry out your responsibilities as a school leader.

QUESTIONS AND DOCUMENTATION

Following the directions given above and in the Candidate Bulletin, respond to the questions below. Before you begin, read the STRATEGIC DECISIONS and EVALUATION CRITERIA described at the end of this Component.

1. THE COMMUNITY

QUESTIONS:

What would you identify as the most significant features of the community in which your school or district exists? How do these features affect student learning? How do these features help shape your decisionmaking and your activities as a school leader?

DOCUMENTS:

These materials should help you identify and document important features of the community that affect student learning and that impact your activities as a school leader. Materials could include demographic, historic, cultural or other information that would help you present a view of the kind of community in which the school or district exists: census data, descriptions of economic factors or trends, newspaper clippings, etc.

Maximum length: commentary 2 pages; supporting documents 5 pages

2. REFLECTION

QUESTIONS:

What do you consider to be the greatest strengths of the system in which you work, and what do you consider to be the greatest challenges posed by the system? How do you hope to draw on these strengths and address these challenges in order to promote the success of all students?

Maximum length: commentary 2 pages

STRATEGIC DECISIONS

The school or district you will analyze

For schoolsitebased administrators, this will be the school in which you are working; for district or central office administrators, this will be the district in which you are working.

Collecting and selecting data

All data and notes that you eventually select to support your written commentaries should help you address how particular aspects of your school or district impact student learning. It will be important, as you collect, that you evaluate the documents to verify that they provide you with specific information that will help you write about these impacts on learning. You may find it helpful, in order to provide a fuller explanation of your current educational context, to have documentation that will enable you to provide a historical context for your responses.

Writing Style

Your written responses will be evaluated based on their responsiveness to the questions and evidence of the relevant ISLLC standards. You will not receive additional credit for including information in your responses that is not asked for by the questions.

Adequate Rationales

Some questions will require you to explain why you made particular decisions and/or selected certain courses of action. Merely stating that policy guidelines required you to act in the way that you did will not be an adequate response.

Peer Review You have the sole responsibility for the development of the ISLLC Portfolio. Peer and/or mentor review of your work is permitted, but all written submissions must be completed by you. It is strongly suggested that you get an experienced colleague to help guide you through the process and review your work prior to submission.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

This Component of your Portfolio will be evaluated on the following criteria. These criteria are drawn from Standards I, II, III, N, V, and VI of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards for School Leaders:

There is clear, consistent, and convincing evidence of the candidate's knowledge of.

Standard 1

§ information sources, data collection, and data analysis strategies learning goals in a pluralistic society

Standard 2

§ curriculum design, implementation, evaluation, and refinement principles of effective instruction measurement, evaluation, and assessment strategies

Standard 3

§ theories and models of organizations and the principles of organizational development

Standard 4

§ the conditions and dynamics of the diverse school community

Standard S

§ the values of the diverse school community

Standard 6

§ the political, social, cultural, and economic systems and processes that impact schools

Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium

of the

Council of Chief State School Officers

0 1 ,a

vC8

,. r

w ~ f

J 0 E,

Portfolio Licensure Assessment

COMPONENT A. 2.

SUSTAINING A CULTURE CONDUCIVE

TO STUDENT LEARNING

Prepared by Educational Testing Service for submission under contract with the Council of Chief State

School Officers. Prepared August, 1999

FORM A

COMPONENT CHECKLIST

A. 2. SUSTAINING A CULTURE CONDUCIVE TO STUDENT LEARNING

This sheet must be the FIRST page of each Component's submitted materials.

You must complete, sign, and subnut this form for each completed Portfolio Component. Assemble the materials in the sequence listed below. Verify that all materials are included by checking the boxes next to them. Be sure to sign at the bottom.

0 Component Checklist (FORM A)

0 Candidate Feedback Form (FORM B)

0 Written Commentaries and Reflection

0 Supporting Documents (send duplicates only, do NOT send originals)

O Total number of pages submitted for this component (count this page, all other form pages,

supporting documents, and your written responses): pages

By my signature below, I affirm that all of the abovechecked materials are included, that all necessary release forms have been completed and collected, that all supporting materials are authentic and are accurately characterized, and that the written responses are my own productions.

Signature

Date

FORM B

CANDIDATE FEEDBACK FORM

COMPONENT A.2. SUSTANING A CULTURE CONDUCIVE TO STUDENT LEARNING

Upon completion of this Component, fill out this Feedback Form and place it directly after Form A, with the materials you submit for this Component.

1. Circle the number on the rating scale that best represents your response to each question.

Strongly / Agree / Disagree / Strongly
Agree / Disagree
• The component directions are clear and easy to / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
follow
• The component measures skills and knowledge / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
that are important for effective school leadership
• The activities and tasks associated with the / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
component represent authentic (realistic)
leadership practices
• The content and nature of the component are fair / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
and reasonable

2. Approximately how much time (in hours) did you spend completing your portfolio component?

3. Was the number of pages allotted to you for writing your reflection and each of your commentaries adequate? (Circle one

YES NO

If not, please give a brief explanation of your response in the space below.

4. Was the number of pages allotted to you for supporting materials adequate? (Circle one)

YES NO

If not, please give a brief explanation of your response in the space below.

5. Was the process of completing the portfolio component a worthwhile professional development experience? (Circle One

YES NO

Please give a brief explanation of your response in the space below.

6. Were the supporting materials helpful to you in completing your portfolio component? (Circle one) YES NO

Please give a brief explanation of your response in the space below.

8. In the space below, please add any comments that you would like to share regarding the component or the experience of completing the component.

INTRODUCTION

Focus

The focus of this component is your analysis of important aspects of your school or district in terms of their impact on student learning.

Overview

You will present documents and written commentary that, taken together, clearly

demonstrate your knowledge of your school or district. You will identify and describe

significant aspects of the community, the students, the organizational structure, and the

instructional programs of your school or district; you will analyze how these particular

factors impact student learning and how they have shaped your activities as a school

leader. You will write one commentary. in response to specific questions, and you will

write one reflection which will enable you to analyze the strengths and needs of your

school or district.

QUESTIONS AND DOCUMENTATION

1. THREE BARRIERS To LEARNING

QUESTIONS: Identify and describe three significant barriers to learning for either all students or subsets of students in your school or district. Why are these barriers significant? What is their impact on student learning?