STANDARD FOUR: Human Resource Leadership
School executives will ensure that the school is a professional learning community. School executives will ensure that processes and systems are in place that result in the recruitment, induction, support, evaluation, development, and retention of a high-performing staff. The school executive must engage and empower accomplished teachers in a distributive leadership manner, including support of teachers in day-to-day decisions such as discipline, communication with parents, and protecting teachers from duties that interfere with teaching. They also must practice fair and consistent evaluation of teachers. The school executive must engage teachers and other professional staff in conversations to plan their career paths and support district succession planning.
A. Professional Development/Learning Communities
The school executive ensures that the school is a professional learning community.
The school executive ensures that the school is a professional learning community.
ELP 552: School-Based Planning, Management, and Evaluation in Professional Learning Communities, was a course that allowed me to gain a more in-depth knowledge surround the Professional Learning Communities. During this course I also worked with cohort members to create a professional development for teachers.
B. Recruiting, Hiring, Placing, and Mentoring Staff
The school executive establishes processes and systems in order to ensure a high-quality, high-performing staff.
The school executive establishes processes and systems in order to ensure a high-quality, high-performing staff.
Since being hired as the Assistant Principal for M.B Hubbard Elementary in July 2020, I have been apart of the hiring team. We have held interviews for classroom teachers and instructional assistants. Once we hold our interviews, the team discusses the pros and cons of the interviewee and if we feel that the candidate is a good choice for our school. Once we choose a candidate, I am tasked with calling the references and completing the recommendation for hire form.
ELP 553: Organizational Management I: Human Resource Management required a human resource management plan. This assignment was a performance-based activity/task utilizing best known practices in the recruitment, retention, and evaluation of high-quality staff, along with best practices maximizing instructional time. This activity also included implications and applications for future practice.