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** EDLD 5333 - Leadership for Accountability Course Embedded Reflections -  ** =====

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What I value most this course Leadership for Accountability is the information I take to my classroom, my grade-level team and my campus. I have always been an advocate of being a lifelong learner, but never taking it to the next level. It is through this course that I now realize for a school to be successful it requires several components: leadership, shared vision and mission; site-based decision making team, and professional learning communities. Like a puzzle you must have all these interlocking pieces to complete the whole picture. I now realize when a leader has no vision a school has no direction. In the past six years we have had six different principals. With the exception of one principal the other four felt our school was a problem school (though we have been Recognized every year) and their mission was to change our school. And with those changes came six new Campus Improvement Plans developed based on data results. Yet, when delivering their new plan each principal meet with resistance for they never took the time to foster a cohesive-shared vision. =====

We also explored the Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) data utilized in developing the Campus Improvement Plans. As a fifth grade teacher data has been an intricate part in driving our instruction in the classroom and tutoring after-school. This course took us a step further by completing data analysis to determine areas of strength and weakness and identifying patterns and trends. This now is critical component of RTI which helps our campus meet AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress).