QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS
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Campus Culture - CORRECT ANSWERS-The Positive Campus
A positive campus is one in which there is clear direction for all involved towards high
standards. The principal should communicate non-negotiable, goal-oriented, high
expectations. Then, they should provide scaffolded support structures to achieve these
goals.
Positive school culture is imperative to school success. The principal must actively
cultivate respectful, supportive relationships with and among students, teachers, and
parents. The principal must also continually model and reinforce that these high
expectations are achievable.
Best practices:
Visit each teacher before the school year starts to discuss goals and concerns
Provide ongoing team building events with staff to reinforce the mission and goals
Interact and communicate regularly and authentically with parents and students on
progress towards goals
Provide celebrations and recognitions when goals are met
Respect the skills, experience, and contributions of faculty and staff members
Collectively establish and monitor performance goals for faculty and staff through pre-
conferencing, observing instruction, and providing timely feedback.
Implement and support school processes that continually improve the performance of
all, with a laser-like focus upon student success and well-being
Build value-added partnerships with outside organizations and resources to benefit
overall student well-being
Leverage technologies to provide virtual and "e-space" for asynchronous collaboration
for all stakeholders (i.e. Social Media Networks, online classroom spaces, virtual
meeting rooms, and discussion boards.
Promote activities to teachers that help them build positive classrooms
Leading Learning
Vertical Alignment of Curriculum - CORRECT ANSWERS-Scope and sequence by a
campus will be vertically aligned
drive positive collaboration work to help teachers analyze their curriculum and lesson
planning to ensure vertical alignment
provide time for collaboration
Leading Learning
Vertical Alignment of Curriculum
Diversity Needs - CORRECT ANSWERS-Curriculum and lesson plans should be
adopted, created, and modified accordingly.
,Students domains:
cognitive knowledge
affective: emotional
psychomotor: physical motor skills
culturally responsive teacher recognize the importance of including students' cultures in
all aspects of learning
Leading Learning
Monitoring Instruction - CORRECT ANSWERS-visit classrooms
establish a focus /goal for observation
review lesson plans
During observation:
give feedback in real-time
use the same rubric for comparisons can be made between teachers and over time
expectations
Campus Culture
Instructional Content - CORRECT ANSWERS-Positive campus
Principal is a role model
Communicate: non-negotiable, goal-oriented, high expectations
Scaffolded support structures to achieve goals
cultivate, respectful, supportive relationships with students, teachers, and parents.
Positive Campus
Best Practices: - CORRECT ANSWERS-visit teachers at the beginning to discuss goals
and concerns
team building with staff to reinforce mission and goals
communicate regularly with students and parents on progress towards goals.
celebrate and recognize when goals are met.
respect the skills in other members
implement and support school progresses to continually improve the performance of all
Build value partnerships with outside organizations and resources to benefit students
include technology
, promote positive classrooms
Collegial campus
goals are clearly communicated and shared to focus on common goals and the
encouragement of each other's success - CORRECT ANSWERS--shared sense of
responsibility towards achieving a common goal
- collegial leader: sharing the power of leadership with others and working along side
staff to achieve a goal. \
-collegial leaders publicly recognize that success and express gratitude to the staff
member for their achievement
-model characteristics they want to see in their staff
-staff should collaboratively and observing as they engage in their practice
Collegial Campus
Best Practices - CORRECT ANSWERS--Post goals in visible places
-reference the goals when appropriate
-develop and support school leadership teams and committees
-individual/team goals related to common goal
-establish shared protocols and norms
-provide common planning time for teachers
-create opportunities for teachers to learn from each other (model classroom)
-create calendar to provide a variety of embedded opportunities for staff collaboration
-communicate learning requirements and standards.
Non-collegial Campus - CORRECT ANSWERS--staff will engage in isolation
-2 types of relationships: adversarial/competitive relationships
-Adversarial relationships: limited resources in which staff see interactions as a threat
-maintain the status quo isolation= defensive
-competitive relationships: its beneficial to hoard their resources and ideas for
themselves so they have the competitive edge on other teachers and staff.
Campus Vision
Instructional Content
Research-Based - CORRECT ANSWERS--use research-based approaches as the
foundation
-create evidence in educational literature that these changes will lead to success
(improve student achievement)
-data-driven planning
backwards planning.
Campus vision
Instructional Content
Research-based - CORRECT ANSWERS--provide behavioral intervention (PBIS)