Growth Plan Update - September 2014

As predicted, a result of using the BCPVPA Professional Growth Plan evaluation tool, I have found that I would like/need to grow in the area of co-developing and implementing systems to formatively, descriptively, and non-judgmentally monitor the learning environment in our school under Instructional Leadership.  This is something that I have worked a great deal on with staff over the last several months from a theoretical perspective, however, we need to create the mechanisms to enable our staff to make the walls of their classrooms more permeable and give them the ability to see and work with other teachers around the ideas of deeper learning.

This year, I will work with staff to:

• co-create a mechanism for descriptive, non-judgmental observation that has multiple entry points that match the needs of all staff members (Fall/Winter, 2014)
• continue to co-create tasks for staff that allow us to hone our skills of descriptive and non-judgmental classroom observation through video simulation (Fall/Winter 2014)
• co-create (with staff, students, and parents) our Problem of Practice through the development of our Attributes of a Graduate (Winter/Spring 2014)
• apply the skills that we have developed to do our first Instructional Rounds session to determine where we are as a school in developing our Attributes of a Graduate. (Spring, 2014)

It should be an exciting year!

Evaluating My Growth Plan - August 2014

Tomorrow, each of the administrators in School District #73 will be attending a professional development session at our McQueen Lake Outdoor Education facility.  One of the major topics for discussion at this session will be each of our Professional Growth Plans:  each of us will be diving in to our plans to see where we are at and where we are going according to the Leadership Standards created by the BC Principals and Vice-Principals and the accompanying evaluation tool. 

Over the last few years I have 'digitized' my growth plan in the form of this blog and subsequently used the blog as a repository for authentic and tangible artifacts of progress.  However, I find that I have not been spending enough time reflecting on this progress and targeting it towards my areas of highest need.  Tomorrow, I am interested to see where the evaluation tool will direct my attention. 

My prediction is that I need to grow in the area of co-developing and implementing systems to monitor the learning environment in our school under Instructional Leadership.  This is something that I have worked a great deal on with staff over the last several months from a theoretical perspective, however, we need to create the mechanisms to enable our staff to make the walls of their classrooms more permeable and give them the ability to see and work with other teachers around the ideas of deeper learning.

We will see!