NC Teaching Standard #1 - Leadership

Standard 1 can be both easy and difficult to demonstrate.  It all depends on your school's culture.  If your administration makes it important to cultivate teacher leaders by encouraging in-house experts, then you are fortunate.  Here are the 5 big ideas in this standard:

• Teachers lead in the classroom.
• Teachers demonstrate leadership in the school.
• Teachers lead the teaching profession.
• Teachers advocate for schools and students.
• Teachers demonstrate high ethical standards.

 My school district put together a huge document with all sorts of ideas for artifacts.  Here are some examples of things I used to demonstrate my leadership.

• Data notebook
• CCAE/NCAE membership and acting as an Area Rep for the school
• Attendance at the One Voice Rally in Raleigh on May 3
• NCCAT attendance
• National Board Certification
• Created lesson plans when we went through a teacher transition
• Assisted the district in evaluating the new math adoption
• Procured $1,641 in materials for my classroom/school through Donor's Choose
• Participated in the district Share Fair on Feb. 17
• Participated in various activities with Discovery Education
• Did website testing for SpellingCity.com
• Completed a peer observation

I made pictures of some artifacts and others just got listed bullet form. I'll show you how I presented this information later this week.  I was able to present it to my administrators and explain things.  Overall, they were extremely impressed and pleased.

Come back tomorrow for Standard 2!