Domain 1: School Vision

Component A:  Sets ambitious, data-driven goals and a vision for achievement; invests teachers, students, and other stakeholders in that vision.

• The principal creates an atmosphere for achievement of high academic expectations for all students; providing a clear picture of the school’s future.

• The principal ensures that the school vision is lived in practice, encouraging behaviors that support the vision and addressing behaviors that undermine the vision; enlisting the support, ownership, and institutionalization of the vision from various perspectives and lenses.

• The principal places data driven school level goals into the vision which describe how the vision will be attained; adjusting the goals as needed, using student learning outcomes, needs assessments, observations of teacher practices, and participation from stakeholders to ensure they are driving improvements in achievement.

Domain 2: School Culture

Component A: Facilitates collaboration between teams of teachers

• The principal develops a school culture that allows effective teaching and learning to occur through the use of effective and frequent collaboration between teams of teachers.

• The principal reinforces the school culture, along with the teachers, students and stakeholders, through practices and actions that say:  every child, every day and is it good for kids

• The principal establishes  a culture of learning, wherein teachers identify and teach core academic skills across the curriculum and implement shared instructional practices to improve student achievement; using work that is rigorous and aligned with the Compass rubric.

Component B: Provides opportunities for professional growth and develops a pipeline of teacher leaders

• The principal expects professional growth from all members of the teaching staff that is aligned with the vision of the school and the Compass rubric.

• The principal facilitates meaningful, targeted professional development opportunities aligned to teacher needs and designed to improve instructional practice.

• The principal cultivates a pipeline of teacher leaders and develops their leadership skills to provide additional support to teachers in the school and allows them to take on additional leadership opportunities.

Component C: Creates and upholds systems that result in a safe and orderly school environment.

• The principal ensures that the school building is clean and safe; all basic facilities are in working order and that the physical plant fosters major academic priorities and initiatives.

• The principal consistently implements and discusses across all classrooms, an age appropriate code of conduct with written values and beliefs that is aligned with district and school priorities.

• The principal utilizes all support staff, including certificated and non-certificated employees, to strategically support the achievement of school goals.

Domain 3: Instruction

Component A: Observes teachers and provides feedback on instruction regularly.

• The principal observes teachers to provide on-going actionable, clear and transparent feedback on instruction; these observations will become a part of both formative and summative assessments of teacher effectiveness.

• The principal ensures that all instruction is focused on the development and implementation of goals and objectives that are aligned with the Common Core Standards.

Component B: Ensures teachers set clear, measurable objectives aligned to Common Core.

• The principal guarantees that all instruction is grounded in and guided by the Common Core Standards.

• The principal implements a curricular scope and sequence that fosters rigorous instruction and activities that are designed to cognitively challenge students using the Common Core Standards.

• The principal supplies supporting curricular materials that allow teachers to implement the curriculum with fidelity.

Component C: Ensures teachers use assessments reflective of Common Core rigor.

• The principal facilitates and supports staff use of aggregate and disaggregated data to identify and prioritize students’ needs in relation to the Common Core Standards.

• The principal will ensure that all assessments are Common Core aligned and will maintain teacher accountability for on-going analysis of student data to provide rigor, differentiation, rapid interventions and updated intervention assignments to reflect student needs and progress.

Professionalism Competency – Contributes to achieving the school’s mission, engages in self-reflection and growth opportunities, creates and sustains partnerships with families, colleagues and communities.

• The principal engages in self-reflection and growth opportunities to support high levels of learning for all students.

• The principal collaborates and communicates effectively with families, colleagues, and the community to promote students’ academic achievement and to accomplish the school’s mission.