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= = **Strategic Leadership 1** = = 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.



1a. School Vision, Mission and Strategic Goals: The school's identity, in part, is derived from the vision, mission, values, beliefs 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.


 * Internship Experiences: **


 * Developed personal vision statement
 * Distributed letter of introduction to Roanoke Rapids High School faculty, parents, and students.
 * Conducted formal and informal observations providing feedback to teachers in various disciplines
 * Performed instructional walk through to monitor Essential Questions, non-fictional writing, and technology implementation
 * Worked with School Leadership Team

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 * Coursework **

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 * DLP assignment required collaborative collection and rating of internship school vision and mission with mentor principal and select teachers, fall 2011.
 * Applied the PDCA cycle to study the processes used to establish vision and mission in the school, fall 2011
 * Through Vision Statement Assignment, developed and shared a personal vision that reflected high expectations for student achievement.
 * With Self Assessment assignments, fellow made continual changes to personal goals that reflected feedback data to improve performance.
 * "I Am From" Poem
 * School/District Digital Story
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Leadership Digital Story
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Evaluation of Teacher Working Conditions Survey
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">AB Combs Visit
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">NC "Turnaround" High School Visit


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Specialized Training **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Llano Grande Digital Story Training Halifax County Digital Community Story
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Distinguished Leaders in Practice


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Related Readings **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Tinkering Towards Utopia
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The School Leaders our Children Deserve

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1b. Leading Change: The school executive articulates a vision and implementation strategies for improvements and changes which result in improved achievement for all students. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Experiences =
 * =<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 80%;">Meet with Transition Academy teachers and lead discussion on mission and vision of Transition Academy =
 * Revised Transition Academy brochure to include mission and vision statements aligned with schools vision.
 * Organized, planned and invited community dignitaries to discuss future career options and self-awareness with 8th graders


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Coursework **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Introductory Letter
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Fall 2011 Assessment Day School Culture Video
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Facilitative Leadership
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Crucial Conversations
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Problem of Practice Phase #4

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Specialized Trainin**g
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Social Justice Training
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Crucial Conversations


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Related Readings **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Bolman & Deal
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Leading Change by Carter
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">7 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Tinkering Towards Utopia
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Trust Matters
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Cultural Change
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Dale Carnege
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Crucial Conversations
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The School Leaders our Children Deserve
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Seven Keys to Equity
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Schooling by Design
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Leading in a Culture of Change

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1c. School Improvement Plan: The school improvement plan provides the structure for the vision. Values, goals and changes necessary for improved achievement for all students. =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Experiences
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">School Improvement Team Meetings
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">PLC Meetings

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Coursework = =
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">DLP #1 (PDCA) Cycle
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Problem of Practice Phase #2
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[[image:logic_model.jpg width="448" height="336" align="right" caption="Problem of Practice Logic Model"]] [[file:Melissa Richardson.dlpdocx.doc]]



<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Specialized Training
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Understanding by Design
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Facilitative Leadership

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Related Readings
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Schooling by Design
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Leading in a Culture of Change by Carter

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1d. The school executive created and utilizes processes to distribute leadership and decision making throughout the school. =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Experiences


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Transition Academy: supervised and managed 22 staff members and 192 freshman and 242 eighth graders
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Monitoring administrator for Akers Alternative School advocating for 8th and ninth grade students.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">PLC Meetings
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">School Improvement Team Meetings

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Coursework


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Facilitative Leadership

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Specialized Training


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Facilitative Leadership
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Crucial Conversations

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Related Readings


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Dale Carnege: How to win friends and influence people
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Trust Matters