Developing the Leaders build collaborative cultures, structure the organization for success, and connect the

school to its wider environment.

Organization
Classroom School System/Community
Leadership Practices/Indicators Leadership Practices/Indicators Leadership Practices/Indicators
Actively participates in a professional learning
Facilitates the development of a collaborate
community:
classroom culture: Communicates and engages with the home and community
Engages in collaborative inquiry to identify and
Utilizes a variety of groupings to build in a regular, reflective, informative and invitational manner
implement evidence-based instructional and
student engagement; e.g. inviting feedback, reporting progress, soliciting
assessment strategies;
Engages students in decision-making and involvement, and encouraging school council to be active
Shares resources to support student achievement
problem-solving; partners.
and success;
Establishes peer mentoring programs; Engages in system professional development and shares
Encourages the sharing of best practice through
Demonstrates perseverance and flexibility; best practice.
classroom and school visits; and
and Participates in learning networks with other schools in the
Provides differentiated support and professional
Models respectful behaviour, continuous system and shares appropriately with colleagues.
development to meet team members needs.
improvement and life-long learning. Creates and sustains mentoring relationships with system
Mentors new teachers and pre-service candidates.
Scaffolds instruction to build on students leaders.
Participates in learning networks with other professional
knowledge and skills.
learning teams in the school.
Evidence/Reflection / Impact Evidence/Reflection / Impact Evidence/Reflection / Impact

How am I deepening and extending my learning
about building collaborative cultures in the
classroom? What am I doing in a more
meaningful way to share my practices?
Talk to students about what I am doing
on PD day, what I did, and what I
learned. Want them to see that learning
is continuous and not stagnant.
Reading Coherence, Innovators Mindset
Studying research by John Hattie
Collective Efficacy by Jenni Donahoo
Taking technology PD with Queens and shared
the opportunity with staff
Follow numerous top educational researchers
and bloggers on twitter
Sharing all my resources with the department
on team drive
Have mentored numerous new teachers and
Brock University candidates ( Kelsey Newhook,
Janine Bean, Ben Board, Mac Fillman, Robin
Durham)
Going to be hosting teachers from other
schools to my classroom to observe my
Send regular Markbook emails to parents to keep
them in the loop about upcoming tests,
assignments, field trips etc.
Taste of Milton emails, phone calls, restaurant visits
and always in a professional and positive manner
Conducted workshop on Team Drives and Google
Hangouts
Working on developing a stronger mentoring
relationship with leaders from the leadership
workshops ie. Andrew Bigham, Joanna Anderson,
Meena, Peter Marshall, and within MDHS
Presented at PD session about feedback using
Goobric and Doctopus.