ISLLC “Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards”

 

Standard 2

A school administrator is an education leader who promotes the success of all students by advocating for, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth.

 

Artifact 1: Adequacy in Schools, is a paper I wrote concerning sustaining proper instruction and culture through finance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rationale: According to Roza, the No Child Left Behind Act was in effort to equalize the adequacy of the nation’s schools and raise test scores. There is a negative tone from Roza that the efforts by States to level the adequacy simply just don’t work because not all schools have the access to the same funding. Roza’s undesirable view of the school systems stems from mismanagement of fund allocation and finance all together. A private schools cost per student is about 30,000 dollars (40,000 at the last school I taught at) compared to the national average funding of about 9,000, gives an entirely new prospective of funding. I believe numbers like these are why Roza believes adequacy is difficult to acquire (Roza, 2010).

 

Reflection: Parents want their students to be in a class of their own and the students do as well. From the eyes of students and parents, adequacy equates to a school being able to properly educate and give their son or daughter suitable extra-curricular activities.

 

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Artifact 2: Prezi

This is a prezi I created that explains what bullying is like in today’s school.

 

Rationale: 52% of students report being cyber bullied, 33% report cyber threats, 25% experience repeat bullying through cell phones or internet, 52% don’t tell their parents when they are being cyber bullied, and 11% of students have had pictures taken and sent without consent. This does not make for a nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning.

 

Reflection: As teachers and administrators we are the first defense against any kind of bullying, and with such a large percentage of students who are affected by it, action needs to take place. Monitoring student behavior, enforcing classroom and school rules, and not letting even the small incidents of bullying go unnoticed are all ways to improve any schools learning environment.