Fullerton Online Teacher Induction Program

Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) – Teacher Leader Project

Option
Revised 1.1.19
Directions: The ILP should be completed with Mentor input. Complete blue cells prior to classroom implementation. Complete orange cells after POP Cycle is completed. Cells will expand as
needed. When submitting completed ILP to instructor, please include copies of all instructional resources, including Google Survey used for assessment of audience satisfaction.
Section 1: New Teacher Information
New Teacher Email Subject Area Grade Level
Elizabeth Marchan emarchan@vistacharterps.org Social Studies 8th
Mentor Email School/District Date
Shirley Sotero ssotero@vistacharterps.org Vista Heritage Global Academy 03/02/2020
Section 2: CSTP Areas of Inquiry
Directions: Identify 2-3 CSTP elements for ILP focus. Use most recent CSTP Assessment for Initial Rating. Identify both teacher and student rating for CSTP 1 and 2. See example.
CSTP Element Initial Rating Description Goal Rating Description
T - Facilitates systematic opportunities for students to apply
T - Guide students to think critically through use of questioning strategies,
critical thinking by designing structured inquires into complex
Promoting critical thinking posing/solving problems, and reflection on issues in content.
T – Applying T – Innovating problems.
1.5 through inquiry, problem solving, S - Students respond to varied questions or tasks designed to promote
S – Exploring S - Innovating S - Students pose and answer a wide-range of complex
and reflection comprehension and critical thinking in single lessons or a sequence of
questions and problems, reflect, and communicate
lessons.
understandings based on in depth analysis of content learning.

Structures a wide range of

Provides opportunities and support
opportunities for families to
for families to actively participate in
Working with contribute to the classroom
the classroom and school.
families to and school community.
6.4 Integrating Innovating
support student Supports a school/district
Communicates to families in ways
learning. environment in which families
which show understanding of and
take leadership to improve
respect for cultural norms.
student learning.
Develops
awareness
Collaborates with community
about local
Uses a broad range of members to increase
neighborhoods
neighborhood and community instructional and learning
and
resources to support the opportunities for students.
communities
instructional program, students,
surrounding the
6.5 Integrating and families. Innovating Engages students in
school.
leadership and service in the
Draws from understanding of community.
Uses available
community to improve and enrich Incorporates community
neighborhood
the instructional program. members into the school
and community
learning community.
resources in
single lessons.
Section 3: Teacher Leader Inquiry Focus and Planning
Project Title Inquiry Question Project Objective(s)
I will conduct parent
outreach to help recruit
parents to our newly-
Will increased parent
formed PTO, and to get
Padres Unidos de Vista (Parents United for involvement in school
the PTO more involved
Vista) activities impact the school
in school activities, i.e.
climate?
Spring Festival,
Chilaquiles Social, etc.

Audience for Project How Project Fits into Professional Goals and/or How Audience Satisfaction will be
(Who Participates/Who Benefits) Department/School/District Needs Assessed
The audience for my project are Vista Our school is in desperate need I will assess parents at the
Heritage Global Academy Parents. The of more parent involvement. end of each PTO meeting,
people who will benefit are all stakeholders, We have just formed a PTO this as well as keep count of
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 semester, and we really need it
to succeed to help our school
and students succeed. This will
how many parents show up
help me reach my personal goal
i.e. students, parents, teachers, etc. to help out with school
of reaching “innovating” in my
activities this semester.
CSTP standards, as well as my
own personal goal of helping
my students succeed.
Special Emphasis: Teacher Leader Model Standards and NBPTS Core Propositions
Directions: Identify at least one NBPTS and at least one Teacher Leader Model Standards that are the primary focus of your project. Explain how these standards will be incorporated.
Special Emphasis Focus How Special Emphasis will be Incorporated
I will begin by attending the PTO meeting on Wednesday, March 04 where I
will keep track of how many parents show up. We have already reached out to
NBPTS Proposition 5: Teachers are members parents through the Parent and Community Engagement Committee, so
hopefully we will have a large parent turnout. I have brainstormed with my
of professional learning communities.
colleagues and mentor about possible ways to recruit parents. I will help
recruit parents by contacting them via school messaging app, TalkingPoints. I
TLMS Domain 6a: Uses knowledge and will also reach out to individual parents whose children attend the after-
understanding of the different backgrounds, school program. I am one of the only teachers who speaks Spanish, so I’m able
ethnicities, cultures, and languages in the to effectively communicate with the majority of the parents at our school. Our
school is predominantly Latino, and come from Spanish-speaking households.
school community to promote effective
interactions among colleagues, families, and Every time I attend a PTO meeting, I will keep track of how many parents
the larger community; attend the meeting. I will then do presentation on benefits of increased
parent involvement in school activities at the 4th PTO meeting. My mentor
and I agreed that the 3rd official PTO meeting would be best as we are more
likely to have parents consistently attending meetings by then.
Inquiry Implementation Plan
Discuss Results with
Analyze Results
Milestone 1 Milestone 2 Milestone 3 Mentor
Milestone 4
Milestone 5
Attend 3rd official
Discuss results
PTO meeting and
with mentor,
keep track of how
talk about key
many parents Attend 4th official
Attend PTO meeting points, get
showed up via sign- PTO meeting and
Wednesday, March 04 constructive
up sheet. Will also keep track of how
to facilitate future feedback from
talk about many parents
meetings, and to mentor. We
opportunities for PTO showed up via
establish next steps. I are going to
involvement in sign-up sheet.
will also reach out to Analyze results wait until this
Identify name and date for school activities. Will present
activities. families via school from my time as the
Continue to recruit information
messaging app, presentation. Spring Festival
parents via about benefits of
TalkingPoints, to help happens on
TalkingPoints and increased parent
recruit parents. Keep the 23rd, and
speaking to parents involvement in
track of how many we want to see
in after school school activities. I
parents showed up via how many
program. Will also will conduct a
sign-up sheet. parents show
present PTO with survey at the end.
up to
opportunity to help
volunteer with
organize Spring
the festival.
Festival.
03/04/2020 03/12/2020 04/03/2020 04/04/2020 04/24/2020

Provide 1-2 sentence summary I will help recruit parents to our newly-formed PTO by reaching out to families, and by giving a
of your teacher leader project. presentation about benefits of increased parent involvement.
To analyze my effectiveness as a Teacher Leader, I will keep track of how many parents attend each PTO
Summarize process for analyzing
effectiveness of leadership role.
meeting and how many volunteer to be involved in school activities. I will also survey the parents at the
end of my presentation.
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 Section 4: Inquiry Research and Exploration
Research/Professional Learning (Identify two articles that have informed inquiry focus. Provide title, URL or citation, and statement of what was learned.)
1) Sui-Chu, Esther Ho, and J. Douglas 1) The authors of this article identified four dimensions of parent involvement,
Willms. "Effects of parental involvement specifically as it relates to 8th graders. What they found was that parent
on eighth-grade discussions at home with students were the biggest influence on student
achievement." Sociology of achievement. Nevertheless, one of the major take away from their research
education (1996): 126-141. is that parent involvement does positively affect student achievement
overall.
2) According to Burcu and Sungur, increased parent involvement also meant
2) Senler, Burcu, and Semra Sungur. increased student achievement, specifically in science. The study they
"Parental influences on students' self- conducted was amongst elementary schools and middle schools. They found
concept, task value beliefs, and strong evidence that increased parents involvement increased student
achievement in science." The Spanish achievement more so in elementary school than in middle school. However,
journal of psychology 12.1 (2009): 106- they did find that increased parent involvement had some influence on
117. increased student achievement at the middle school level.
Colleagues (Summarize how two colleagues have addressed similar leadership roles OR the status of the issue at department/school/district level.)
Ms. Sotero is my mentor and is also the leader of the Parent and Community
Engagement Committee. She is the only other Spanish-speaking teacher on campus,
and as such, we both are constantly looked to for translation, parent meetings, etc.
Her interactions with our parents are similar to mine. However, she has found it
Shirley Sotero difficult recruiting parents to attend our PTO meetings. Consistent parent involvement
has been an issue at our school, which is why we decided to try to establish a PTO.
Carina Gonzalez
Ms. Gonzalez is our school psychologist, and last year, she began hosting parent classes
where she taught them strategies in how to deal with teenage behavior. She had about
15 parents attend her first class, however, only 1-3 parents continued to attend her
classes after that. She was able to give me some insight as to how to best reach out to
parents.
Section 5: Results and Reflection
Initial Revised Suggestions for Moving
CSTP Element Evidence/Rational for Rating
Rating Rating Forward
To move to INNOVATING level: Consider how to
Promoting critical thinking Teacher asked questions of analysis and evaluation. increase complexity of task beyond a single lesson
T – Applying T – Integrating
1.5 through inquiry, problem Students answered questions that included all levels of Bloom’s. Students created their so that there are continuing opportunities for
S – Exploring S - Integrating
solving, and reflection own math problems. students to engage in inquiry in complex problem.
How could you extend lesson into PBL?

I rated myself as innovating because my

project and presentation were all about how
parents can get more involved in school
This is a project that I will
activities/events. I am the Leadership teacher,
continue to work on next
so I have been working on increasing parent
academic year. My next
involvement since last academic year, have I
steps will be to get parents
have been recruiting parents to help out with
involved early on. Every
Working with school events. This year, I was able to recruit
year, we do home visits and
parents to help out with the Harvest Festival
families to we have parent orientations
and with our Chilaquiles Social for our 8 th
6.4 support Integrating Innovating for each grade level. I plan
graders. Fortunately, I have had parents show
student on encouraging parents
up to help and those same parents have asked
learning. during home visits, as well
me how else they can be involved. I was able
as presenting at each of the
to recruit them to our PTO this semester.
orientations. My goal is to
However, due to the pandemic, the PTO
begin the year strong, and
meetings have been taking place virtually.
to have parents involved
Nevertheless, I continue to see more parents
from the beginning.
interested and more parents showing up to the
meetings. I will continue working on this next
academic year.
6.5 Develops Integrating Integrating I continue to rate myself as integrating because For next academic year, I
awareness I don’t feel that I collaborate enough with plan on having community
about local community members to increase instruction members come in to my
neighborhood and learning opportunities for students. This is class as guest speakers. I
s and something that I would like to improve upon as also plan on having more
communities I know that it can be beneficial for our parents be involved in
students. I do use community resources and I classroom activities that
surrounding
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 pertain to our community.
do pull my knowledge from the community For example, when we look
the school. and implement in my classroom. For example, at Irish immigration and
my students had to analyze U.S. immigration compare to immigration in
Uses available patterns in the mid 1800’s, specifically in the our community, I can have
east coast. After they analyzed these patterns parents come in to speak to
neighborhood
and we discussed reasons why people our students about why
and community immigrate, we looked at our own community they immigrated to the U.S.
resources in and did a comparison. We had to pull from This is something that I have
single lessons. different community resources through been brainstorming and will
websites, photographs, etc. continue to develop over
the summer. mh

Special Emphasis (Teacher Leader Model Standards or NBPTS Core Propositions

Key Learnings and New Skills/Knowledge Developed by Contribution to
Product(s) Generated
Teacher Others/Department/School/District
NBPTS Proposition 5: Teachers are members of
learning communities.
- I am part of the Parent and Community
Engagement Committee, which is comprised
of teachers from different grade levels. Our
goals are to get more parent involvement on
campus, and to offer more services to our
parents, i.e. parent classes. It is in this
committee where we took the first steps to
establish a PTO at our school. We
brainstormed ways to recruit parents and I
- Contributed and
took the lead on that project. Taking on the
collaborated with
lead in this project has helped me develop
professional learning
my leadership skills, specifically my
community (Parent and
communication skills.
Community Engagement
- Once we established our PTO, we also voted
- Created “PTO Recruitment” Committee).
in officers and people to be part of the
presentation for parents - Contributed and
board. I am part of the board of the PTO.
- PTO recruitment phone list for collaborated with 2nd
This learning community is comprised of
outreach professional learning
parents, teachers and community members.
- “PTO Recruitment” parent community (PTO).
At the first meeting we discussed ways to
handout - Created presentation that
recruit more parents, and we discussed ways
- Feedback survey linked in the administration/PTO could
Leadership (the elective I teach) and PTO
presentation continue using to recruit
could collaborate to improve school climate.
parents.
- Contributed to school
TLS Domain VI: Improving outreach and collaboration
wide effort to increase
with families and community.
parent involvement on
- Before I took the lead on parent
school campus.
recruitment, there was almost no parent
participation at school activities. Parent
participation was limited to attending
concerts. After I took the lead, there was
more visible parent presence on campus
(before the pandemic) and we have more
parent interest as a result of my PTO
presentation. I predict that more parents
will be involved next academic year, should
things normalize.

Mentor Feedback
Directions: The Mentor should Identify strengths and areas of improvement in each of the following areas.
Effectiveness of resources designed by Candidate, including Strengths: Elizabeth’s presentation was informative and helpful for Vista
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presentation, notes, handouts, and other resources.
Effectiveness of Candidate in teaching and coaching adults. (Refer
to Adult Learning Principles in FOTIP Handbook
[https://www.fotip.org/adult-learning-theory.html].
Value of topic for audience.
Overall delivery by Candidate of the professional development
experience, including audience engagement, pacing, tone, and
response to questions.
Analysis and Summary of Audience Assessment
Directions: Record assessment data into Assessment Data Table (see end of document). Include copies of assessment tool with submission. Include at least one graph in your summary.
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parents. It was organized well, was clear and in language parents could
understand.
Areas of improvement: Handout could be less bulky and more parent-
friendly. Didn’t use the handout because presentation was virtual, but
handout could be improved for next academic year.
Strengths: Elizabeth addressed adults that were motivated to learn more
about how they can be involved on campus activities. The parents that attend
Coffee with the Principal are parents that want to be kept in the loop. With
this in mind, Elizabeth created a presentation that she knew would be of
interest to the parents. She engaged them by asking them questions that
required reflection. She also translated her presentation into Spanish, so she
appealed to all parents. Elizabeth also presented reasons why parents should
be motivated to join the PTO.
Areas of improvement: For the next presentation I suggest that she give
parents examples of the types of activities they can be involved in and the
types of fundraisers the PTO wants to host.
Strengths: The topic that Elizabeth presented appealed to all parents because
she was talking about ways they can be involved on campus through the PTO.
The parents she presented to were engaged and appreciated her
presentation.
Areas of improvement: I think she can widen her audience by including
reasons why teachers should be involved in the PTO too.
Strengths: Overall, Elizabeth did a great job with her presentation. Her tone
and pace were appropriate for her audience. The parents were engaged and
asked her for more information about our PTO, which was the goal.
Areas of improvement: She can widen her audience by presenting to other
stakeholders like teachers and community members.
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 *Results as seen on Google Spreadsheet from English and Spanish survey.

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 *Results from Spanish Google form

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 *Survey given at the end of my presentation
Action Items (some may not be applicable)
For curriculum design, lesson
planning, assessment planning
Not applicable

I will use what I have learned to encourage my students to motivate their parents to be more active in
For classroom practice
school activities/events. I will also encourage parents to volunteer in my class and in other classes.
For teaching English learners,
students with special needs, and I will encourage the parents of students with learning needs, EL’s or that have other instructional
students with other challenges to attend class with their student.
instructional challenges
In the future, I will take my mentor teacher’s suggestions and I will widen my audience to include other
For future professional
development
colleagues and community members. I will also work on making my presentation handout more parent-
friendly.
For supporting
I am supporting my school’s effort to increase parent involvement at our middle school and at our
others/department/
school/district elementary school.

Other

Other Notes and Comments

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 Include copy of Google Survey Form assessment tool.

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