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The first interaction I had with staff with allowing them to come to me and talk to me about whatever was on their mind. This was a great way for me to get to know staff, assess what concerns they have and make a plan that will help the transition be a smooth one.

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Setting Vision early in the year and consistently modeling and re-communicating the vision.

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Setting Vision early in the year and consistently modeling and re-communicating the vision.

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This past year was all about being a "tribe" and striving for instructional excellence.

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This was done regularly throughout the year both planned with our "Sunshine" Leaders and as surprises from leadership. Whenever we felt a "rut" we planned a "pick me up". We also intentionally pre-plan some of our treats.

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Surprise staff with fun little "pick me ups"

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Surprise staff with fun little "pick me ups"

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Aligning your school's Vision with that of the District's Vision and staying connected to leaders and board members

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Aligning your school's Vision with that of the District's Vision and staying connected to leaders and board members

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Giving Families a "window" into the classroom

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Giving Families a "window" into the classroom

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Showing our families that we love their children

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Showing our families that we love their children

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1:1 Principal/Teacher Data talks in October 

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1:1 Principal/Teacher Data talks in October 

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Catching teachers in precious moments and showcasing those moments

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Catching teachers in precious moments and showcasing those moments

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Capturing moments of instruction you want duplicated by your teachers and showcasing it. 

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Capturing moments of instruction you want duplicated by your teachers and showcasing it. 

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Gathering with Families to encourage connection and involvement

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Gathering with Families to encourage connection and involvement

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An event encouraging school presence by the dads in the student's lives along with community stakeholders such as the police department, fire fighters, church members, school board and superintendent.

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Created a "dining section" dedicated to families and their student to enjoy lunch together (Kite Cafe)

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Created a "dining section" dedicated to families and their student to enjoy lunch together (Kite Cafe)

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This was a flipped faculty meeting where they had a week to watch a TedTalk as a pre-teach and they were asked to join me in the gym for an activity and was concluded was partner talk and reflections and time embedded for intentional and applicable work.

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Encouraged student engagement and new approaches 

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Encouraged student engagement and new approaches 

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(Pictured: National Teach Outdoors Day). In this picture students were creating catapults as a part of their science unit in force and motion.

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Involved community members in school functions

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Involved community members in school functions

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Students were given the option to assist in the cafeteria by "accepting a job" if they have extra time in their lunch block. Their jobs usually lasted 4-8 minutes depending on the student. The blue cards are the job descriptions and the yellow aprons attached to the card indicate that the job is available to accept. When an adult allows them to accept the job, the student puts on the apron, indicating to the other adults that they should be up, walking around and helping.

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Social Media presence used to connect with families 

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Social Media presence used to connect with families 

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Facebook Live Bedtime story was a hit this year! The students never knew who they would see on Facebook Live that evening. One person would read, another commented back to participants!

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Celebrated and honored staff and their achivements

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Celebrated and honored staff and their achivements

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This Live was done by our librarian while I commented.

https://www.facebook.com/windermereprimaryschool/videos/1776883705944060/

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Innovative and fun ways to conduct faculty meetings 

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Innovative and fun ways to conduct faculty meetings 

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We went to the trampoline park and learned about Numberless word problems, incorporating interactive games to practice the teaching strategy.

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Shared exemplars of student work, environmental print and high level student products

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Shared exemplars of student work, environmental print and high level student products

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This was a practice used frequently. It ignited interest and conversation between staff members, in addition to making staff feel good for the high quality instruction they planned.

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Best dress up winner featured!

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Maintained a focus on attendance incentives

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Maintained a focus on attendance incentives

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In this particular picture, one of our teachers and aspiring administrators worked with administration to create a fun incentive coupled with weekly announcements of the highest ADA percentage of the week. This incentive (A popsicle with the Principal) showed an almost immediate improvement in our overall campus average.

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The card color indicates the students beginning of the year Universal Screener data level (Benchmark, On Watch, Intervention or Urgent Intervention). At our middle of the year data talk, teachers moved their cards to the color pocket that matched their middle of the year scores. We celebrated the achievements (such as a red card in a green pocket) and had conversations about the students still in the areas of concerns about next steps (RTI, In class interventions, etc).

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Shared and trained on Instructional Technology Tools 

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Shared and trained on Instructional Technology Tools 

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Created systems to continuously acknowledge students for hard work and achievements

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Created systems to continuously acknowledge students for hard work and achievements

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Created a sense of family, community and support 

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Created a sense of family, community and support 

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Our campus was a safe space, No Place for Hate campus 

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Our campus was a safe space, No Place for Hate campus 

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Encouraged hands on, authentic learning opportunities 

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Encouraged hands on, authentic learning opportunities 

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This was a chick that the PreK classrooms hatched during their life cycle unit. The whole school was able to enjoy the experience once they hatched.

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Worked closely with PTO to plan events, fundraisers and increase parent participation. 

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Worked closely with PTO to plan events, fundraisers and increase parent participation. 

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Stayed connected with feeder campuses to ensure vertical alignment and motivation. 

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Stayed connected with feeder campuses to ensure vertical alignment and motivation. 

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The seniors featured in this picture went to Windermere in their elementary career and came back to visit our students.

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Collaboratively created and monitored Campus Improvement Plan. 

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Collaboratively created and monitored Campus Improvement Plan. 

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Created and maintained goals and strategies aligned to those goals to execute the plan. Formative reviews included in the attachment.

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Google Classroom for staff communication 

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Google Classroom for staff communication 

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I used Google Classroom to Flip Faculty meeting, administer surveys for input, provide resources or announcements was a success this year.

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Strong Leadership team built that collaboratively did consistent walkthroughs, left consistent feedback and tracked data to inform professional learning and communications. 

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Strong Leadership team built that collaboratively did consistent walkthroughs, left consistent feedback and tracked data to inform professional learning and communications. 

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In weekly staff newsletters, I communicated instructional look fors/ or focuses, walkthrough data, my personal schedule for the coming week, staff shout outs and other important information. Newsletters assist in ensuring expectations for excellence are clearly communicated. Walkthroughs ensure they are adequately supported.

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Current staff is always involved in hiring processes of staff members and I have systems in place to ensure the integrity of the process along with ensuring we recruit high quality educators.

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Heavy administrative involvement to monitor PLCs, along with offer support for answering the 4 questions efficiently, in turn, resulting in high student achievement.

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Digging data as a leadership team was a continuous practice to monitor instructional practices and student growth. This informed our decisions as we led, and was visible in classrooms.

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Plans are in the works to do Instructional Rounds to build community, celebration and embedded professional learning on campus.

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Principal and AP worked closely with instructional coach and teachers to build proficiency in unpacking TEKS, implementing backwards design and executing high level TEKS at the level of mastery intended.

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Shared "Take a Peek at our Week" photo stream 

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Shared "Take a Peek at our Week" photo stream 

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https://spark.adobe.com/page/Yy3639mmXF03c/

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Leadership created intensity checks were created collaboratively with staff and CAAC to aligned with district and campus look-for information to give us an easy way to gather campus wide data. This was used to inform professional learning, and guides teacher feedback. No names were used on these checks and it was not used as an evaluative tool. We shared the data with the staff to inform them how it was going campus wide. Staff found value in that.

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I've worked with several staff members to help align our work to the vision of the campus by training, collaborating and building leadership capacity. I have two aspiring leaders on my campus whom I've tasked with streamlining PBIS systems (with intense support), monitoring our ADA percentage and planning to improve it, and intentionally contributing to an enhanced culture.

I've also worked hard with my team, my Assistant Principal and Instructional Coach to coach them in the areas that align with their own professional growth and aligned with our vision.

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https://www.facebook.com/windermereprimaryschool/videos/1840306482935115/