Sat for the Connecticut Administrator's Test on Saturday. Met with newspaper club students on last edition of the school newspaper for the year. Had two more student articles published in the local paper this week.
Sat for the Connecticut Administrator's Test on Saturday. Met with newspaper club students on last edition of the school newspaper for the year. Had two more student articles published in the local paper this week.
Sat for the Connecticut Administrator's Test on Saturday. Met with newspaper club students on last edition of the school newspaper for the year. Had two more student articles published in the local paper this week.
Journal Reflection Intern Name Date Amount of Time 5/31/16 1 5/31/16 1 6/4/16 10
ISSLC Domain Standard 4 Collaborative Leadership (CL)
Name and Description of Activity
Met with newspaper club students on last edition of the school paper. Collaborated with the districts communications specialist on two more student articles submitted to the Windsor Journal. Sat for the Connecticut Administrators Test
Reflections and Insights
We successfully published our last edition of the school newspaper for the year. This paper truly represented the collaborative effort put forth by the staff because prior to the publication teachers were emailing me with pictures and captions from the field-trips they took students on, the events that were happening in their classroom and awards that students were receiving from competitions in both sports and academics happening all over the state. This type of collaboration has helped shaped my definition of community for ISLLC Standard 4, which has been the focus of my internship. I had initially been focusing on creating a collaborative working relationship between our school and individuals outside of the schoolhouse, but have added to that is the understanding of what Green (2013) identified as being a critical factor in meeting the standard, collaboration. He reminds that this is a concept that is often taken for granted and one cannot assume that all individuals are knowledgeable about the processes and procedures used to effectively collaborate (p. 13). In my own experience, this was demonstrated by the fact that once teachers knew how they could contribute to highlighting accomplishments in the school paper, they did. We had two more student articles get published in the Windsor Journal this week. This brings a total of three student articles published in the local paper since the official start of my project in May, and we have two more articles in the queue for the months of June and July. This way, even though the students wont be in school, we will still have their articles receiving publication. Finally, this week I sat for the Connecticut Administrators Test (CAT) on Saturday. This exam began at 8:30 am and concluded at 5:30 pm. The exam presented us with four different scenarios, two pertaining to instructional analysis and teacher support for both elementary and secondary teachers and two pertaining to school improvement for both elementary and secondary schools. Success on the exam requires that the test taker incorporate their knowledge of the standards of school leaders into their responses illustrating the connection between theory and practice. The exam required us to