To:All Assistant Principals and Supervisors

March31th, 2016

To:All Assistant Principals and Supervisors

From:Joel DiVincent, Supervisor, Office for Professional Development and School Supports

Subject: Preparing New Principals Program (PNPP) Level II – Route to the K-12 Principal Pool

Please find attached to this email an application and principal/director recommendation form. Thisinformation is intended for all hopeful Principals with a minimum of three years Assistant Principal experience or the equivalent in Pasco County Schools. This professional development program is the process for administrators to be added to the K-12 Principal Approved Candidate list. The successful completion of this program will qualify you for your Principal’s Certificate. The deadline for completing and submittingall portions of theapplication to our office is Friday, April 22nd, 2016. Please provide your principal or director with a copy of the verification form and ask them to complete and submit by the deadline.

The complete application process consists of three parts:

1. Application form – completed forms should be emailed to
2. Principal/Director recommendation form – completed form sent by your supervisor to
3. Gallup Principal Insight web-based assessment – unique code and web portal address to be provided to applicants upon calling 727-774-2256 or 813-794-2256

Upon selection into PNPP, all participants must attend a mandatory all-day orientation on Friday, May 6, 2016. If you cannot commit to this date or other training dates during the next school year, please delay your application.

Additional information can be found at our website:

To further assist interested candidates, avoluntary conference call will be held on:

Thursday, April 7th, 20168:00 AM4-2777

Thank you for supporting the students and staff of Pasco County Schools.

Application for the Preparing New PrincipalProgram

Name:

Worksite:

Work email:

Phone numbers: Work Cell

Principal or Director:

Number of years of education/teaching experience:

Number of years of formal administrative experience:

List the schools in which

you have been an administrator:

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Directions:Please complete all 5 sections of the application. Write complete and detailed answers to the following 15 questions. Please respond directly below the question you are answering. Attached documents and/or addendums will not be screened as part of your application.

Section 1: Applicant Statement

1. Please describe, in 200 words or less, your reason for wanting to participate in this program and for your desire to become a Principal.

Section 2: Leadership Experience Please fully describe your;

2. Specific experiences in developing and delivering professional development.

3. Specific experiences facilitating and leading school-based teams, including PLC’s.

4. Specific experiences mentoring and developing aspiring leaders and new administrators.

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5. Specific experiences supporting standards-based curriculum development and instruction.

Section 3: Planning for a new initiative within a school

6. Please describe an in-depth planyou used to introduce and incorporate a large-scale new initiativein your school.

7. What were the results of your initiative?

Section 4: In each of the listed areas, please describe your most recent professional development experience and as a leader how you have implemented the learning.

8. Coaching, communication, and conferencing skills

9. Planning, delivering, and/or assessing standards-based instruction and student performance

10. Leadership development

Section 5: Leading in a school and within an integrated system

11. What do you believe is the major role of the school-based administrator in 21stcentury schools? Describe how your actions have supported this role.

12. Please describe your actions in creating and maintaining effective conditions for collaboration and how those actions work to support achieving school goals.

13. When leading in difficult times, what leadership practices are most important to achieve school goals? Describe have you have implemented these practices at your school.

14. Please describe your understanding of our district’s three focus areas (High Impact Instruction, Data Driven Decisions, and Collaborative Culture) and your specific behaviors/actions as a leader to support this work.

15. You are currently leading a school that is integrating the Marzano Instructional Framework and the Florida State Standards. Describe your understanding of Domain 1 of the Marzano Instructional Framework and how you support teachers in its use as an intentional planning tool for the design and monitoring ofstandards-basedlessons (see image below).

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