Support File for ISLLC Standard 1

A school administrator promotes the success of all students by facilitating the

development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning
that is shared and supported by the school community.
Personal Statement:
Standard
Function
A, B

Artifact

Reflection

Source (Course)

Four Frame
Analysis Paper

Allowed me to apply what I know about

Bolman and Deals Four Frames to my
school Novi Community Schools. This
paper taught me to look through multiple
lenses and to analyze the structure through
multiple frames. After using the four
frame analysis, areas for improvement are
easy to identify.
This paper allowed me to analyze Novi
Community Schools through Alan
Blankstein six principals. It allowed me to
understand that Failure is not an option
primarily because student success is at the
very core of our profession. This is the
critical mind set all educators should
embody and be our sentence as Dan
Pink outlines in the book Drive. This
thinking needs to permeate each and every
interaction we have with students,
colleagues, support staff, administrators,
and parents in our classroom, school, and
district.
The reading from this book helped me to
understand the importance of aligning the
school vision with all human
resource processes and ensuring that it is a
healthy organization. Additionally, I was
able to understand:
The three biases that prevent leaders
from embracing organizational health.
The difference between a smart
organization and a healthy organization.
Why the Four Disciplines model builds
and maintains organizational health.
The secrets to cascading communication

EA 740 School as
a Formal
Organization

Artifact 1

A, B, D

Failure is Not
An Option
Paper
Artifact 2

A, B, C, E

Moodle:
Chapter
Reading, The
Advantage

EA 740 School as
a Formal
Organization

EA 754 (Human
Resource
Management and
Supervision)

B, C, D, E

Moodle:
Job Embedded
Professional
Development

A, C., D.,
E.

Creation of
District MTSS
(RtI) model
Artifact 3

throughout your entire company.

How you can hold meetings and still
have plenty of time for your job.
This article allowed me to consider the
importance of Job Embedded professional
development for the betterment of School
Improvement which includes practical
research and solutions in classrooms and
school wide. Additionally, it showed me
the importance of collaborative work
being the heart of job-embedded
professional development, evaluating and
solving problems of practice in order to
improve teacher quality
Through my work with Bolman and Deal,
it was apparent that Novi Community
Schools was in need of a district policy
for intervention for student learning. I
took the lead and through collaboration
with the Assistant Superintendent of
Curriculum and my building principal, a
model was created.

EA 754 (Human
Resource
Management and
Supervision)

Individual
Initiative

Support File for ISLLC Standard 2

A school administrator promotes the success of all students by
advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional
program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth.
Personal Statement:
Standard
Function
A, E, F

Artifact

Reflection

Source (Course)

Case Study
Webster Case

Inheriting an unhealthy school culture is

one of the most difficult tasks a
building principal takes on. This
assignment allowed me to reflect upon
another school, Webster Elementary
School, and show how to evaluate the
school culture, provide resources as the
HR director along with suggestions for
professional development.
This assignment helped me to
better understand adults as learners by
reading about the Adult Learning Theory.
This helped me to plan for professional
development for my staff.
The teacher induction plan allowed me to
create a professional development plan
that supports new teachers and supports
teachers who are not rated effective
within their school. The goal of this plan
is to ensure new teacher success and to
decrease teacher attrition.
This response discussed the leadership
video, The Art of Possibility. This
video gave me a new approach on
leadership around the idea of possibilities
and coaching through the eyes of
Benjamin Zander. A big take-away that I
would foster in my school is the idea of
the art of leadership is about a new way
of being.
I learned that having crucial
conversations is part of maintaining and
growing a healthy school climate. Crucial

EA 754 (Human
Resource
Management and
Supervision)

Artifact 4

A, F

Moodle:
Standards for
Professional
Development

A, D, G, F,
H, J

New Teacher
Induction Plan
Artifact 5

A, F

Moodle:
The Art of
Possibility

A, E, F

Moodle:
Crucial
Conversations

EA 754 (Human
Resource
Management and
Supervision)
EA 754 (Human
Resource
Management and
Supervision)

EA 754 (Human
Resource
Management and
Supervision)

EA 754 (Human
Resource
Management and

A, D, G, F,
H, J

Tapping the
Potential

D, F, G, H

IDP for
Struggling
Teacher

B, C, E, I

Inquiry Project:

conversations are essential and helped me

to see how to handle disagreements and
high-stakes communication within the
school environment. It taught me the
importance of speaking up in these
crucial moments effectively, in hopes to
accomplish the results I am after. This
book helped me to possess a skill-set that
allows me to face any situation with
nearly anybodyno matter power,
position, or authority.
This article allowed me to learn the
necessity of an induction program and the
important components including:
mentor training, common planning with
mentor and ongoing observation.
This allowed me to see the importance of
providing staff with a clear message
when presenting them with
communication in connection with an
IDP. It helped me to see the legal
importance associated with this process.
My action research plan helped me to
create a reflective process complete with
data to support my wonderings to help
improve my instruction to better meet the
success of my students. For my action
research plan, I analyzed the impact of a
driving question when working with
Project Based Learning and research.

Supervision)

EA 754 (Human
Resource
Management and
Supervision)
EA 754 (Human
Resource
Management and
Supervision)

EA 750 Action
Research I

Support File for ISLLC Standard 3

A school administrator promotes the success of all students by ensuring
management of the organization, operations, and resources of a safe,
efficient, and effective learning environment.
Personal Statement:
Standard
Function
A, B, D

Artifact

Reflection

Source (Course)

Staff
Surveys:

Creating and analyzing surveys for students,

staff and administration to better understand
the school and district was empowering,
especially if the survey is written correctly
and data cannot be altered. Additionally,
making a survey helped me to see the
importance of question writing and the
impact a well-written question has on the
outcome of the survey.
Creating interview questions for potential
teachers allowed me to carefully select
questions that align with our school vision.
Additionally, this provided me with an
opportunity to change
My wellness plan allowed me to evaluate my
physical well-being as it relates to
implementing Habit 7 of Steven Coveys 7
Habits entitled Sharpening the Saw. I was
able to implement running into my daily
schedule. Through researching I was able to
create a plan for myself and work towards a
goal of accomplishing a 5K.
This assignment analyzed the impact of
school funding on your school district. It
helped to see the strengths and weaknesses of
the current school finance system using in
Michigan.
In this assignment, it helped me to develop a
proposed budget for a Board of Education.
This proposal included contract
obligations/negotiations, healthcare costs,
projected enrollment, retirement rates,
projected funding allocation, staffing, and

EA 749 Testing,
Measurement and
Data Analysis

Artifact 6

B, C, D

Interview
Questions:
Artifact 7

B, C

Wellness
Plan

A, B, C, D,
E

Budget
Analysis
Artifact 8

A, B, C, D,
E

Budget
Analysis
Presentatio
n
Artifact 9

EA 754 Human
Resource
Management and
Supervision
EA 754 Human
Resource
Management and
Supervision

EA 741 School
Business
Management

EA 741 School
Business
Management

budget cuts.

Support File for ISLLC Standard 4

A school administrator promotes the success of all students by collaborating with
families and community members, responding to diverse community interests and
needs, and mobilizing community resources.
Personal Statement:
Standard
Function
C, D

Artifact

Reflection

Source (Course)

District Marketing
Plan

This project helped me to see the

importance of marketing plays for a
district. It is imperative that you
inform, listen, and learn from the
public. It helped me to see the
importance of having a plan that
relates to your audience and the
importance of effective
communication when presenting.
Meeting the needs of your audience is
important to ensure your message is
received.
It helped me to analyze a current
problem effecting Novi Community
Schools, special education. It helped
me to serve as the solution, but more
importantly reflect as to why it became
an issue in the first place. Seeing the
gaps in communication typically leads
to problems and issues that require
solutions and plans to rectify the
problem.
This helped me to gain insight from
other districts to help to think through
all avenues when posing a solution to a
major issue. Communicating with
others helps to look at the problem
from many different lenses, which is
an imperative strategy when facing all
challenges.
This helped me to see the need to
bridge the gap between school and
community relations. It helped me to

EA 748
School/Community
Development

Artifact 10

A, B, C, D

Issue Analysis
Artifact 11

A, B, C, D

Moodle: Issue
Analysis Posts

C, D

School/Communit
y Meeting/Forum

EA 748
School/Community
Development

EA 748
School/Community
Development

EA 748
School/Community
Development

Artifact 12

EA 701 Syllabus

C, D

EA 748 Syllabus

see the necessity and creative

measures other communities have
taken to help to bring the community
and school together. Finally, it helped
me to see the impact when there is a
gap and the communication between
the city council and the schools are
disconnected.
This course was an internship
experience. It gave me practical
opportunities to apply my leadership
theories to the workplace. I created an
action plan to apply personal goals and
objectives to field-based learning
issues. This internship is allowing me
to reflection my own beliefs while I
construct my electronic portfolio.
This course helped to see the need for
effective communication with the
public to inform, listen and learn must
be a priority for educators. It also
showed ways to improve and build
quality relationships among school and
community stakeholders. Finally, it
helped you to have strategies for
effectively managing crisis, pressure
groups or other potentially serious
considerations.

EA 701 Internship
Experience I

EA 748
School/Community
Development

Support File for ISLLC Standard 5

A school administrator promotes the success of all students by acting with
integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner.
Personal Statement:
Standard
Function
A

Artifact

Reflection

Source (Course)

Rubric to
identify
intervention for
academic
support

This rubric was created to ensure that

equality and a defined process was
carried out K-12 within the district.
This rubric helped teachers to eliminate
biases towards a student and maintained
a common and fair process for the
student.
This assignment allowed me to reflect
on who I am as a person and leader. I
learned about myself through this
process and my ethical stance. It helped
me to focus on my vision, mission and
core values and beliefs to help prepare
me for an interview and also to help
guide me as a leader.
This case study allowed me to
apply ethical and legal understanding to
hiring and firing of staff members.
School leaders are often faced with
difficult decisions and therefore it is
important to see these issues in action
and to understand how to properly carry
out initiatives while being ethically and
legally correct.
This paper asked us to think about
whether a strip search was constitutional
in the school setting. This paper asked
us to look at various state and federal
Supreme Court cases to support your
stance. In the end, it helped us to
understand the imperativeness of
making sure that you have a district
policy

Individual initiative

Artifact 13
Ethical Belief
Statement
Artifact 14

C, D, E

Case Study:

B, D, E

Search and
Seizure Paper
Artifact 15

EA 740 School as
a Formal
Organization

EA 740 School as
a Formal
Organization

EA-742
Educational Law

Support File for ISLLC Standard 6

A school administrator promotes the success of all students by understanding,
responding to, and influencing the larger political, social, economic, legal, and
cultural context.
Personal Statement:
Standard
Function
C

Artifact

Reflection

Source (Course)

Reflection
Matching
Principals to
a School

For this assignment, we were asked to look

at current professional journals and research
to discuss a hot topic to school districts and
school systems. This relection focused on a
report put out by the RAND Corporation. It
was the findings of a research-based study
that devoted the entire article/study to
ensuring the best possible match between a
principal-candidate and a school. The
placement search needs to be strategic, as if
not, the outcomes could be tragic to a
school. When you do not make the correct
match between a candidate and an open
principal position, it can greatly affect the
ability of a school to perform to its highest
potential.

EA 740 School as
a Formal
Organization

This assignment helped me to demonstrate

an understanding of the impact of federal
Supreme Court case decisions on schools,
including an understanding of how such
decisions affect schools, students, families,
and communities, and how legal decisions
drive emerging trends in education policy.

EA-742
Educational Law

Artifact 16

Case Briefs
Artifact 17

Support File for ISLLC Standard 7

A school administrator understands and comprehensively applies technology to
advance student achievement.
Personal Statement:
Standard
Function
C, D

Artifact

Reflection

Source (Course)

Digital
Organizatio
n

EA 754 Human
Resource
Management and
Supervision

C, D

Tools for
Tech Savvy
Teacher
Leaders

This gave me the opportunity to explore the

uses of computer technology by professionals
in the field. This is imperative resource to
have as technology communicates educational
platforms, messages to faculty and
community.
I learned several different digital tools to help
me stay organized so that time and resources
can be allocated appropriately.

This class was an analysis of successful human

resource management and labor practices for
school improvement both with face-to-face
interactions and digital communication.
This is a copy of an agenda and norms from
the iPad committee meeting. The norms were
were established within the committee. I met
with the iPad committee once a month to
troubleshoot with the committee and help to
establish best practice initiatives with the
iPads to help to enhance the workshop model
within the classroom.
This manual was created for the teachers in
advance of giving the NWEA assessment. It
included all troubleshooting strategies, how to
print off reports and an understanding on how
to read the report. It also helps to create a
common understanding K-4 to what everyone
is doing in connection with NWEA. Norms
are clearly stated on how to administer the
assessment. With a common message created,
stress was reduced amongst staff going into
one of the mandatory data points for Domain 5

EA 754 Human
Resource
Management and
Supervision
Individual
Initiative

C, D

C, D

Artifact 18
EA 754
Syllabus

iPad Norms
and Agenda
Artifact 19

A, B, C, D

NWEA
Manual
Artifact 20

EA 740 School
as a Formal
Organization

Individual
Initiative

A, B, C, D

NWEA
Parent
Manual
Artifact 21

of the Marzano district teacher evaluation

model.
Twice a year, parents are sent home with
Individual
information about NWEA. The reports are
Initiative
sent to the parents, with little to no explanation
to the parents for them to understand what
they are looking at and what this assessment
means to their childrens growth with their
learning. To help bridge this gap of
misunderstanding, I created a brochure to send
home with the reports at the end of the year
that helped parents to draw a greater
understanding of this on-line assessment and
to gain knowledge about their childrens
learning.

Support File for ISLLC Standard 8

A school administrator synthesizes and applies knowledge and best practices and
develops skills through substantial sustained, standards-based work in real
settings to advance student achievement.
Personal Statement:
Standard
Function
A

Artifact

Reflection

Source (Course)

EA 749
Syllabus

This course introduced me to the history of

testing in American public schools, the
meaning of individual and group test scores,
reliability and validity of tests and measures,
test construction and preparation, methods of
analysis for test data, and issues of
accountability. This class allowed me to

EA 749 Test
Measurement and
Data Analysis

Performance
Assessment
Staff
Induction
Survey
Artifact 22
Inquiry
Project:
Action
Research
Artifact 23

analyze data in order to guide instruction

and develop best practices. It also taught
me how to create my own surveys and
assessments in a fair and consistent
manner.
This task helped me to create a survey that
was valid and reliable to obtain some real
data that is not invalid. It helped me to
understand the power of writing quality
questions and to use the Likert scale
effectively.
My action research plan helped me to
create a reflective process complete with
data to support my wonderings to help
improve my instruction to better meet the
success of my students. For my action
research plan, I analyzed the impact of a
driving question when working with
Project Based Learning and research.

EA 749 Test
Measurement and
Data Analysis

EA 750 Action
Research I