Domain 3 focuses on Teacher Leadership. You will need to provide evidence for the areas that you collaborate with others and contribute to our school and district. Below are some guiding questions and examples for evidence. Please leave a comment with any questions you still have or ideas for evidence.
3.1-How do you contribute to the school and district culture? Share notes, emails, etc. to identify leadership roles you have taken. Have you shared ideas with the staff {RTI models at ER, for example}. Are you a staff mentor to a student? How have you stepped up to contribute to school and district initiatives {iPads, for example}. For highly effective: What leadership roles have you taken on outside of what has been asked of you?
3.2-How do you collaborate with others? What committees have you volunteered for, workshops attended, or conferences you asked to go to? What ideas have you shared with colleagues? How have you pushed yourself to learn more and try new things? How do you continue to educate yourself and others? For highly effective: Are you a positive influence during collaboration and meetings? Do you offer new ideas and share things that work for you? In what ways have you volunteered to collaborate or help others?
3.3-How do you continue to pursue new ideas and skills? What new ideas have you tried? Are there conferences and workshops you have gone to this year to continue your education? Have you asked an administrator or colleague to observe certain areas of your teaching that you want to improve upon? Do you take feedback and push yourself to improve? For highly effective: Have you lead an ER discussion group? Do you share knowledge on a subject with colleagues and committees you are on? What area of expertise do you feel you can share with others and have you done that?
3.4-How do you advocate for student success? How do you differentiate to meet the needs of all of your students? How do you help students academically and behaviorally in areas of weakness? IEP meetings, parents meetings/phone calls/conferences, etc. can be evidence here. For highly effective: How do you help students outside of your own classroom? Do you work with students from other classes in your grade during RTI? Are you a participant in the teacher mentor program? Do you work with students you have had in the past who continue to struggle? Do you collaborate with teachers to help come with new ideas to help their students {SST member}?
3.5-How do you communicate with families? Newsletters, updating the class website frequently, emails to parents telling parents information, attendance at Parent Teacher Conferences and Meet the Teacher night are all pieces of evidence. For highly effective: How do you communicate back and forth with families? Emails that show continued conversations, individual parent meetings throughout the year, phone conferences with parents, etc. How do you address concerns about students who are struggling with their family? Do you communicate positive interactions as well?
3.2-How do you collaborate with others? What committees have you volunteered for, workshops attended, or conferences you asked to go to? What ideas have you shared with colleagues? How have you pushed yourself to learn more and try new things? How do you continue to educate yourself and others? For highly effective: Are you a positive influence during collaboration and meetings? Do you offer new ideas and share things that work for you? In what ways have you volunteered to collaborate or help others?
3.3-How do you continue to pursue new ideas and skills? What new ideas have you tried? Are there conferences and workshops you have gone to this year to continue your education? Have you asked an administrator or colleague to observe certain areas of your teaching that you want to improve upon? Do you take feedback and push yourself to improve? For highly effective: Have you lead an ER discussion group? Do you share knowledge on a subject with colleagues and committees you are on? What area of expertise do you feel you can share with others and have you done that?
3.4-How do you advocate for student success? How do you differentiate to meet the needs of all of your students? How do you help students academically and behaviorally in areas of weakness? IEP meetings, parents meetings/phone calls/conferences, etc. can be evidence here. For highly effective: How do you help students outside of your own classroom? Do you work with students from other classes in your grade during RTI? Are you a participant in the teacher mentor program? Do you work with students you have had in the past who continue to struggle? Do you collaborate with teachers to help come with new ideas to help their students {SST member}?
3.5-How do you communicate with families? Newsletters, updating the class website frequently, emails to parents telling parents information, attendance at Parent Teacher Conferences and Meet the Teacher night are all pieces of evidence. For highly effective: How do you communicate back and forth with families? Emails that show continued conversations, individual parent meetings throughout the year, phone conferences with parents, etc. How do you address concerns about students who are struggling with their family? Do you communicate positive interactions as well?