Standard 10

The teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth, and to advance the profession.

My Interpretation: The teacher looks for leadership opportunities and takes responsibility for student learning by working closely with students, families, colleagues, and the community to support student growth and contribute to the teaching profession.

Artifact 1: BARR

Indicator: 10 (a) Takes an active role on the instructional team, giving and receiving feedback on practice, examining learner work, analyzing data from multiple sources, and sharing responsibility for decision making and accountability for each student’s learning.

Introduction of Artifact: This is a screenshot of a program our community has started using this year called BARR. Each Tuesday during our prep period, we sit down as a community to discuss the different students, how we can support them, and evaluate their school performance.

Rationale: The way that this program is structured is that if we have students for whom we have noticed a decline in either behavior or academics, we bring them up during our small block meeting to discuss as a team how we can support the student and what interventions we can do to support them and get them back on track. As you can see, we review their strengths and connections to school, and then look at their grades in each classroom. After discussing their strengths, we then review our concerns and the interventions we can do for them. Some of these are as simple as having a conversation with the students; others, we reach out to parents or recommend them to our social worker or guidance counselor. This is how we continuously check in and monitor the students and their performance.

Artifact 2: RSU 9 Proffesional Development

Indicator: 10 (c) Engages collaboratively in the school-wide effort to build a shared vision and supportive culture, identify common goals, and monitor and evaluate progress towards those goals.

Introduction to Artifact: This is a certificate of participation from the RSU 9 professional development day that was hosted at the high school in March.

Rationale: This was a district-wide professional development day. All of the schools in RSU 9 congregated at the high school. There were different sections to choose from, taught by different teachers from the district. Mt. Blue school district stands on community, culture, and curriculum. The first session I attended was where I learned how to juggle. It was related to how students learn new information and how some learn faster than others. The second session was on how to involve projects in the general education classroom. Both of these are to help expand on that part of the curriculum on which Mt. Blue stands. We came together as a district-wide community and developed learning to then help us come up with different ideas that we can use with the students.