The Truth & The Fallacies of School Improvement: What are the three things you love most about your school? What are three things you would love to grow at your school? For each of the the three things you would love to grow, identify at least one thing you can do to help that process along.
1. I Love the small school feel and the camaraderie that we have together as a staff. I feel our relationships spill over to the students. 2. We work together as a team to enhance the students learning and show love to each one who walks through the doors. 3. I love how the community comes together to support our small school and to keep our doors open. There is much support in fundraisers to help the students grow outside of the school hours as well with trips and different educational events. I feel the three areas we could grow in are: 1. More feedback- I can definitely work on this. As a music teacher, I try to do let each student what they need to improve on, but I can work on even doing more with this. 2. Our school is doing really well with promoting success on social media. I do not do well in this area , so that is one of my struggle areas which I can definitely improve on. 3. Recruiting more students. Ours school is trying to keep our doors open. We are doing many things to enhance our school and I can just keep on being the best teacher I can be to help build our school up in a positive way.
ReplyDeleteFor each of the the three things you would love to grow, identify at least one thing you can do to help that process along
ReplyDeleteThree things I love about my school is the sense of Arrow Pride that runs through th community. This past year our superintendent also implemented "We are all arrows," within the elementary schools so as a town, we all have one mascot. I feel like this gives a sense of purpose and the younger can look to the older students. I like that we have PLC time, I feel that we still need to work on this concept to make it greater but we have a start,. I also like the connection with have with the local community college that allows students to take duel credit classes.
I would love to grow on the PlC within the high school. I have worked in other high school where PLC is done amazingly well. I think we need to go look at these schools and see what PLC actually is...not what it is not (All of us as robots doing the same thing). I would love to make our students do a capstone project that embodies their experience and goals for their senior project. This project would be a reflection of who they are, what they want to be and what they have accomplished through their high school. I would need administration support and complete but in from the staff! Lastly, I would love to see the restraints on advanced kids removed! My daughter is in advanced classes and she keeps being told no when she wants to challenge herself more. She has goals and I feel many advanced kids do and we need to listen to their goals and help them to our best abilities.
Things I love most about my prior school: 1. The relationships I had with my team of teachers. We always had each others' backs and it was evident to our students as well. 2. The team planning time we had was extremely helpful because we were always able to touch base and be on the same page about anything that went on. From lesson planning, activities we wanted to plan, parent communication, etc. 3. The amount of professional development opportunities we had access to.
ReplyDelete1. I would love to grow suggesting a "drop" like Hamish did with his staff. I think this would be beneficial to all staff to just hear the good without having to worry about policies, events coming up, reminders, or anything else. This would have to be a suggestion to maybe some team members, but then ultimately to administration. 2. I would also love to grow on the idea of making more hands on experiences in the community with our students. I would talk with some community members and get ideas together on where this could be incorporated and then talk with my team members and administration as well. 3. I would love to grow in the area of making technology more useful in my classroom, especially with being out of the classroom for a few years. There are many new ideas and apps available. I would need to research and look into different apps and see where I can incorporate more into my curriculum.
The three things I love most about my school are: 1. The sense of community and collaboration among staff. I genuinely enjoy, respect and appreciate working with my fellow School Counselors. Each person on the School Counseling team truly wants to support students and work together. 2. Our school has many opportunities for students to explore their interests and grow as leaders, whether clubs, organizations, athletics or the fine arts. It’s very rewarding to help students set personal and academic goals and assist them in finding experiences that help them develop confidence and skills. 3. The focus on social-emotional learning and student well-being. I appreciate that students’ mental health is valued, and I can contribute by running small groups, teaching lessons, seeing students one on one and assisting them in navigating post-high, emotional and personal, academic and other avenues.
ReplyDeleteThese are three things that I would love to grow at my school and how I can do that to help the process along: 1. Expanding mental health support for students. Some students could use more structured programs for managing stress and emotions. I can support this by leading more and new small groups, working with teachers to identify students who need extra support, and continuing to connect families with outside resources when needed. 2. Using data more intentionally to support the School Counseling program and the academic and social-emotional growth of our students. We can be more strategic about identifying trends and needs. Previously we used a program to track the amount of time given to our direct and indirect services and beyond. I would like to implement something like this again. Our team could do this and review counseling data, actionable insights with staff and administration, and collaborating on interventions that support students. 3. Strengthening student advocacy and voice in school decisions. I want students to feel like their ideas and perspectives matter, particularly personal, social, emotional and academic at school, but also in the items of their lives outside of school. Our School Counseling team can create student advisory groups, organize forums for them to share feedback, and encourage effective communication and leadership skills.
Overall, I would like to see what we do as School Counselors align more consistently with the American School Counseling Association national model. I do believe that we do a good job of this, but could improve on the items that are on the inappropriate duties list for School Counselors. Collecting some data could certainly support the work we currently do and need to improve on.
Three things I love most about our school.
ReplyDelete1. Supportive, Dedicated Teachers
2. Engaging Extracurricular activities
3. Friendly School Environment
Three things to grow at our school and how I can help with the process:
1. Personalized Learning- as the Foundation director I can easily assist by helping provide staff with additional ways to promote, enhance and enable education and enrichment opportunities in their classroom through Foundation grants and funding.
2. School Spirit additions- again through the Foundation we are currently working on adding more Bulldog spirit to the school. This project will foster a strong sense of community, belonging, and pride among students and staff. Hoping this positive atmosphere boosts student engagement & improves mental well-being.
3. More graphic design classes- right now the Foundation is also spearheading a grant request that will purchase a projector for the gymnasium. This addition will add a new class to the curriculum for graphic design.