Have a Good Life: Smart Professionals with Kimberly Miles Transformative Principal 113

Smart Professionals with Kimberly Miles Transformative Principal 113

Sunday, February 28, 2016 by jethrojones

Kimberly Miles is the principal of East Gresham Elementary School. 425 kids, mobility rate 64 students moving in and out since the beginning of the year. 33 percent ELL students. SUN School - community support in the school.

PLCs
Leadership Team
25 minutes each week with principal discussing the instruction and learning.
Instructional coach.
Essential Questions
Meet weekly as a team
Sense of urgency is happening.
PD for Leadership Team
Smart professionals can choose their own tools for the job.
Also more fun to let them experience their own success.
New focus is seeing students
Comprehensive needs assessments
Students need shared ownership
Specific feedback
Universal screeners for our students, they showed they were really struggling.
DIBELs gives an indicator
Phonics Screener
Still need to create common formative assessments to help students demonstrate proficiency.
Consultants come in to work with team to facilitate the needed changes.
How to facilitate difficult conversations.
Strict schedule is needed.
Really want to be a good listener as a leader.
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