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Caroline Joyce
Standard 4: Human Resource Leadership
NCPAPAs DLP NELA Component Two: Maximizing Human Resources for
Goal Accomplishment
Assignment 2.3: Personal Reflection on Human Resource Leadership
My role as a school leader is to grow my teachers, so they can grow their students.
In order to meet the needs of my teachers, I must possess a skill set that builds
trust, relationships, systems and processes, teacher leaders, and I must be able to
model effective instructional practices in professional development. Managing the
human capital of the school is the single most important duty of a school leader:
relationships will either make or break the very foundation of the institution.
As a new school leader, I would first focus on building trust among my staff.
Sharing my vision and giving my staff the opportunity to build a shared vision for
the school is a priority before school begins. We must all have and strive for the
same common goal for our students. I would share the factual data of where our
school is, and where we need to be by the upcoming academic year. I would need to
have frank discussions with teachers individually about their EVAAS evaluations,
and this would lead to my decisions about how to best utilize their strengths. A
teacher who grows low achieving students needs to teach the low achieving, and
the teacher who grows high students needs to teach the advanced and honors
students. A teacher who has really great relationships but not so great scores may
be better utilized as a Dean of Students or behavior intervention personnel.
Furthermore, teachers who are exceeding growth need to be instructional coaches
to the teachers who are not meeting growth. From the visits that I have had to high
performing schools, I realize that we can break away from the traditional model of
schools and create a school that maximizes staff talent.
With trust and a vision beginning to be established, I would then direct my energies
on establishing processes and systems to run an efficient and productive learning
environment. The systems I would put in place would be student and teacher
centered. Students would clearly understand their as learners above all other roles.
I would establish and enforce a clear and consistent behavioral discipline matrix.
Teachers would have the role as maintaining consistent school-wide rules within
their classrooms and hold the students to the highest level of expectations. As I
mentioned earlier, I would use data and personnel information to place the right
people in the right roles to maximize student learning. I would also design a master
schedule that ensured protected common planning time within the school day to
promote professional learning communities. An administrator will be present for
every PLC data meeting, and I would model PLC practices and share video clips of
effective PLCs from schools that I have visited. For example, I have a 9-minute video
clip of an effective PLC at the Pactolus School that I would show to the staff as a
model of what data disaggregation and meaningful dialogue should look like at a
data PLC meeting. Structures and processes must be in place for the efficient
running of a school.

In order to make a school that grows teachers, who in turn grow students, I must be
an instructional leader. My background of consistently exceeding growth of all
students in my biology classes attests to my strengths in curriculum and instruction.
This strength is especially important to win the respect of my staff, so I would be
able to give constructive and credible feedback about their teaching. I would also
incorporate model teaching at every staff meeting, and take care of the managerial
information via email and flipped video messages to allocate the time of staff
meetings for professional development. In addition to myself, I would utilize the
talent within the building, and I would have those teachers who exceed growth
share best practices and strategies to their peers. Differentiation is important, so I
would provide smaller group staff development opportunities to suit the needs of
the teachers. By modeling best instructional strategies, and growing teacher leaders
within the school, we would then realize our goal: student growth and proficiency.
Thus, human resource leadership is crucial for having a productive and efficient
learning environment. I must know how to communicate and build the relationships
with my staff for us to come together as a team to grow our students. In the
systems and processes of a well-run school, I would place the right people in the
right places to maximize the potential of student learning. In the 21 st century, we
have to grow students who know how to collaborate and think critically, and in order
to achieve this goal, we must first have a staff who collaborates and thinks critically,
themselves.