Principal+Residency

=Notes on Curriculum and Instruction=

[|Project Essentials]
Notes on Building School Culture
 * Set up Project Day, once a month with staff taking turns helping kids do project work while rest collaborates
 * Plan for Fun Time
 * [[file:Professional Culture Brainstorm.pdf]].
 * [[file:Learning Walk Observation Form v2.pdf]]
 * Common planning time
 * Partnerships
 * Teachers as learners; transferring learning to classroom
 * Shared leadership (all stakeholders)
 * Staff models same expectations as the students (practice what you preach)
 * Scaffolding and differentiated PD for staff
 * Staff as community liaisons
 * Staff consistently examines practices and beliefs (reflective practioner)
 * Trust, respect, and responsibility
 * Interacting with a shared purpose
 * Dress for success
 * Collaboration taught and modeled

**Professional Culture:** · Supportive – basic needs met: reliable tech, time and tools, resources · Collaboratiive – open communication, common planning · Clear common vocabulary · Interactive norms · Respect · Trust · High expectations · Continuous learning/improvement **What to do to start this:** · Do the building a culture of trust worksheet · Ask, What does “ideal culture look like? · Define terms · List current culture · List what to do to go from current to ideal – do action items/strategies – then can hold staff accountable to these jointly created norms · These interactive norms are a critical piece – a model of the process for kids where I act as a PBL leader using a driving question so staff comes to the above professional culture collaboratively

**Critical Friends:** · Always develop the NEED TO KNOW · Use cognitive coaching questions in Resource Library · See document of steps and elements · Set up minimum expectations on how/when to use · Use for every project, also for middle and end of · Post changes to projects from I Wonder’s and Next Steps to Moodle

**June PD and Planning:** · Make business network more clear/specific · Craft mission/vision and values in advance from New Tech site, and use process to accept/modify · Discuss the specifics of maintaining collaboration time throughout the year – go back to The Plan · Designate specific people and roles in agenda · Use Google Apps to document and for accountability · Spend more/enough time on norms and culture building · Work on learning outcomes rubric using Michael McDowell’s model: Identify, define, overall outcome, vertically articulate

**Recruiting:** · Use the term “option school” · Do focus group of 9th graders on owners manual and recruiting peers · Push the 1:1 laptop in the new message · Lead with all kids – school of choice and not magnet · Get on TV · Get Business Advisory together on this · Use Zion – Benton video · Enhancing the average