NCSSE.1: Strategic Leadership
School executives will create conditions that result in strategically re-imaging the school’s vision, mission, and goals in 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.
NCSSE.1: Strategic Leadership
School executives will create conditions that result in strategically re-imaging the school’s vision, mission, and goals in 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.
- School Vision, Values, and Mission: The school’s identity, in part, is derived from the vision, mission, values, belief 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.
The school's vision, values, and mission represents the school identity and defines where the school is going while laying out educational goals for students. - Distributed Leadership: The school executive creates and utilizes processes to distribute leadership and decision making throughout the school.
- I was tasked to coordinate the Virtual Rising 9th Grade Curriculum Expo. During this task, I collaborated with educators to collect resourceful information for students at this grade level in both English and Spanish. This assignment helped me to utilize technology skills while embedding links and creating Google meets for all courses participating in the event.
- School Improvement Plan: The school improvement plan provides the structure for the vision. Values, goals and changes necessary for improved achievement for all students.
- The purpose of our school improvement is to improve achievement and outcomes for every student by working to eliminate the ability to predict achievement based on socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity.
As part of the team, I was able to collaborate while analyzing data that demonstrated different challenges that our students were facing during the pandemic. -
- Leading Change: The school’s identity, in part, is derived from the vision, mission, values, belief 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.
- As part of the NCSLA program leaders were tasked with examining a Problem of Practice to explore and develop an intervention program for their residency site. Leaders discovered this Problem of Practice upon conducting observations around the school and through data analyzes. My problem of practice focused on bridging the academic gap of Hispanic students at Cary HS. The biggest task was collecting resources to encourage parental involvement and to build relationships that would help families to feel supported and included.