SUPPORT FILE FOR NELP STANDARD 1:

Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement

Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation program

understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success and well-being of each
student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to collaboratively lead,
design, and implement a school mission, vision, and process for continuous improvement that reflects a
core set of values and priorities that include data use, technology, equity, diversity, digital citizenship, and
community.

Component 1.1 Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to collaboratively evaluate,
develop, and communicate a school mission and vision designed to reflect a core set of values and priorities that
include data use, technology, equity, diversity, digital citizenship, and community.

Component 1.2 Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to lead improvement processes
that include data use, design, implementation, and evaluation.

Standard
Artifact/Activity Reflection Source
Component
Wrote/collaborated with principal on
Troy High’s weekly family newsletter,
Troy High School Schoology posts, and the THS
Student, Family & X/Twitter account to highlight
1.1 Troy HS
Community student(s) that represented our school
Communications mission, vision, and character values of
Resilience, Responsibility, Empathy,
and Kindness.

Developed and revised building-wide

discipline plans and academic
Student Code of
1.2 guidelines to ensure they reflect Troy Troy HS/TSD
Conduct
High’s mission and vision with a focus
on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Analyzed the TSD’s decision to

discontinue honors math classes in
middle school to promote equitable
access to quality mathematics
education; using Bolman and Deal's
1.1, 1.2 Four Frame Anaylsis EA 7720
(2013) Reframing Organizations
framework, I examined the re-
structuring through the lenses of the
Structural, Human Resource, Political,
and Symbolic Frames.
 Provided guidance for evaluating
“Multi-Tiered
educational programs, as demonstrated
Support Means
in the assessment of Smith Middle
Failure is Not an
School's Multi-Tiered System of
1.1, 1.2 Option: EA 7720
Supports (MTSS) using Blankstein's six
A Critique of MTSS
principles, which highlighted strengths
Using Blankstein’s
and areas for improvement in the
Six Principles” Paper
school's approach to student support.
Explored the effectiveness of an
Advisory Program in two middle
schools in the Troy School District; EA 8895, EA 7995,
Action Research
1.1, 1.2 studied the impact of Advisory on EA 7750 & EA
Paper
student and staff well-being and their 7730
“sense of belonging” at their respective
schools.