Competency Summary: MN Principal Licensure

1. Competency Summary:MN Principal Licensure Cathy Sullivan Bethel University

2. My Resume Education Experience: • Counselor/Superintendent Intern James P. Douglas Elementary/Tyler ISD 2008 – 2009 Attained national recognition as a counselor. • Counselor/Principal Intern James P. Douglas Elementary and James S. Hogg Middle School/Tyler ISD 2007 – 2008 Motivated students to improve attendance. Our school was in the top 3 the entire year and won the #1 spot three times!!! • Bilingual Counselor James P. Douglas Elementary/Tyler ISD 2002-2009 Douglas Elementary is more than 80% Latino and 15% African-American. • Bilingual/ESL Teacher James L. Wright Elementary/Perryton ISD 1995-2002 Started out being a teacher of multi-aged covering three grade levels. After one year, switched to being a pull-out teacher working with New Arrivals who knew no English. • Spanish/ESL Teacher Spearman High School/Spearman ISD 1992-1995 I was originally hired as a Spanish teacher then took on the additional responsibility of ESL. Spearman is my home town where I was born and graduated. • ESL Teacher Central Elementary/Perryton ISD 1990-1992 This was my first ever job teaching. I taught all levels from Kindergarten through eighth grade.

3. Artifacts State of Minnesota K-12 Principal Competencies

4. 1. Leadership • Campus Administrator • Grant Writer • Disciplinarian • Parent/Community Liaison • President of the Piney Woods Counseling Association • Collaborator/Team Member of District Planning Committee (DPC) and Campus Performance Objective Council (CPOC)

5. 2. Information Collection • DMAC • Student Code of Conduct • Bethel University • Worked alongside mentor who is also the assistant principal and assessment coordinator. • Attended campus and district trainings. • Attended LPAC meetings.

6. 3. Problem Analysis • Certified Counselor • Trauma Response Team Member • Backpack Club Coordinator • Transitioned from a century old building where half the students were in portables to a new building where all are housed under one roof. • Worked with non-Spanish speaking special teachers on how to communicate with non-English speaking students. • Dealt with students who are from outside our attendance zone.

7. 4. Judgment • C-Scope • Transitional Model Evaluation • District Planning Committee (DPC) • Communicated with parents. • Questioned new personnel candidates while on interview panel. • Attended ARD/LPAC Meetings.

8. 5. Organizational Oversight • Scheduling • ESL Compliance Update • Cafetorium/After School Duty • Scheduled with mentor/assistant principal on expectations and routines; Divided up duties to ensure variety and a range of responsibilities. • During fire drills, teachers are expected to bring emergency kits/bags. • Helped principal fill out student assignment cards in time for Meet the Teacher Night.

9. 6. Implementation Skills • NBA Club (Never Been Absent) • Principal Newsletters • Guest Speakers • Found a new numbering system for organizing backpacks used for Backpack Club. • Worked on principal newsletter every month. Each one followed a consistent format but had to be distinctive. • Scheduled with teachers for classroom visits.

10. 7. Delegation of Authority • The Backpack Club • Art Contests • TEAMS Discipline • Supervised paraprofessionals in cafetorium during lunch. • Coordinated The Backpack Club and recruited help from students, paraprofessionals and community volunteers. • Delegated key responsibility to secretary after training her on the key system.

11. 8. Instruction & Learning Environment • PowerPoint and eInstruction • TAKS Parent Night • People Attempting to Help (PATH) • Assisted in scheduling assessments. • Coordinated Perfect Attendance mini-assemblies during the last 15 minutes of specials (PE, art, and music). • Recognized two boys whose Christmas drawings had been used for the Christmas cards sold by PATH.

12. 9. Curriculum Design • Grade Level Meetings • TEKS Check/District Benchmark • CPOC/DEIC/DPC Meetings • Attended vertical team meetings where emphasis was made on the importance of testing early in English especially with students who have been shown to be proficient in English. • Second grade teachers agreed to give the district science benchmark test in English.

13. 10. Student Guidance & Development • Students are expected to behave responsibly and to strive for improvement and to avoid punishment. • Ensured that students know the school rules, rewards, and consequences and their place in society. • Coordinated many of the guest speakers (Andy the Ambulance, NED, WHO).

14. 11. Staff Development • Teacher Observations • Smart Walks/Walk Throughs • Teachers in Need of Assistance • Mentored new teachers. • Communicated expectations to teachers during faculty meetings, monthly newsletters, and occasional e-mails. • Attended collaborative meetings .

15. 12. Measurement & Evaluation • TEKS Check/District Benchmark Test • Data Driven Improvement Plan • TAKS/State Assessment • Disseminated data and wrote reports. • Collaborated with district and campus teams. • Printed out attendance reports every six weeks. Updated campus NBA lists posted outside my office and grade level lists posted outside each classroom door.

16. 13. Resource Allocation • Budget Planning • Budget Evaluation • Budget Reduction Process • Tyler ISD had a reduction in force (RIF) that affected paraprofessionals (3 on our campus) and other staff members. Assistant principals from many campuses were moved to different locations. • I wrote a one page grant to Wal-Mart that awarded our campus $1000 to be used for uniforms. • I wrote a four page grant to be used to buy basketballs for the NBA.

17. 14. Motivation • NBA Club (Never Been Absent) • Future Teachers of Douglas • Peer Tutors • Attended Open House/Meet the Teacher. • Attended Ribbon-cutting ceremony for our new school. • Attended new teacher luncheon with mentor.

18. 15. Sensitivity • Parent/Community Liaison • Discipline • Children of Trauma • Conferenced with students, teachers, and parents. • Debriefed with Campus Trauma Response Team. • Used/shared parent involvement strategies learned during Parent/Community Liaison meetings.

19. 16. Oral & Nonverbal Communication • Leadership Team Minutes • Presentations in a variety of settings • Receipt of grant for NBA basketballs

20. 17. Written Expression • Letters of Reference • Newsletters • Preliminary Dissertation Proposal • Experience with communicating attributes of staff members. • Experience with writing for specific purposes. • Experience with academic writing. • Example of writing to diverse audiences.

21. 18. Philosophical & Cultural Values • Stranger Danger • Helmet Presentation • Perfect Attendance • Coordinated with Tyler Police Department to award 100 bicycle helmets to deserving good citizens in grades 2-5; each teacher had to give names of five students in her class to be awarded during the assembly. • Coordinated the visits of community members to speak with students in the classrooms regarding safety issues. • Worked with teachers and parents to discuss the best interests of the students.

22. 19. Legal & Regulatory Applications • Student Code of Conduct • Tyler ISD Policies and Procedures • Aspiring Administrators Academy • Met with administrators regarding Parent Night. • Became familiar with discipline forms for consequences such as suspensions and detentions. • Conferenced with students, teachers, and parents.

23. 20. Policy & Political Influences • Discipline • CPOC • DPC (formerly DEIC) • Revised policies pertaining to discipline of students. • Discussed extensively on ways to improve student performance on state assessment. • Used skills learned during meetings sponsored by Title I to be used as a parent/community liaison.

24. 21. Media & Public Relations • Web site redesign • Monthly newsletters • NBA Press release • MediaCast • National Counselor Recognition

25. Competency Summary:MN Principal Licensure Cathy Sullivan Bethel University