Beliefs About Leadership, Administration, and Learning

Administrators do not listen and communicate well with their staff, stakeholders, parents, and students. Administrators do not communicate change when change happens in the learning communicate.

They also do not listen to the staff, stakeholders, parents, and students when they are talking to them or when they are expressing how they feel about their teaching or learning. I *Administrators promote student learning by calling on teams of teachers to create common assessments (Devour and Maroon, 2009). *The administrator provides teachers with information regarding the qualities of effective and balance assessment practices.I *Administrators do not promote student learning by rumoring groups of teachers to create common assessments. *Administrators will not encourage teachers to work together to collaboratively to create assessments. I *Administrators recognize the need for Improvement.

*They are constantly looking at work orders and they respond In an adequate timely manner to make sure the school is up to compliance. I *Administrators do not recognize the need for improvement improvement of the building or the need of up to date curriculum.I *Administrators provide teachers with training, support, resources, and tools to become more effective teachers. Administrators support collaborative teams of teachers by giving them time for collaboration weekly and they give them resources to examine their curriculum. I *Administrators do not provide teachers with professional development, support for improvement, resources, and the tools to become effective teachers. *Administrators do not give teachers the opportunities to take professional development trainings and they do not give them the support to become a better teacher.

I *School is a true community of learners in which administrators, teachers, and students learn how to get better and better at the work hey do together, so that everyone succeeds optimally (Pointing, leaders, teachers, and students work together as a whole to reach a common goal. I *School is not a true community of learners in which administrators, teachers, and students do not learn how to get better at the work and they do not do together, so that they do not succeed optimally. *A school does not encourage their administrators, teachers, and students to work together to reach specific goals.I *Leaders wear many hats to help improve the learning of students and teachers. *They manage the curriculum, resources, teaching methods, length of lily class periods, etc.

(Pointing, 1995) | *Leaders do not wear many hats that will help improve the learning of their students and teachers. *Leaders do not manage the learning that takes place in the school, but instead they will assign their duties to someone else while they are not focus on what the teachers and students need to improve their education. I *Leadership involves multiple involves and they share or collaborate leadership. They collaborate with stakeholders and teachers to share ideas and responsibilities.

I *Leadership does not involve multiple involves and they o not share or collaborate leadership. *Leadership in a learning community is one person who does all the planning and makes all the decisions. I *Student's learning should be challenging, invigorating, and meaningful. *Teachers make lessons that students can engage in them to make them think at a higher learning. I *The learning of students is not challenging, invigorating, or meaningful. Teachers do not encourage the students to get involved in the lesson and they do not ask the students higher thinking questions.

I *The learning that students gain at school is the foundation of lifelong learning. Teachers implement lessons that teach students how to be responsible, committed, and ethical. I *The learning that students gain is not the foundation of lifelong learning. *Administrators and teachers do not allow students to be responsible for their actions and students are not committed to what they are learning. I Rubric for Learning Environment II 12 13 14 1 Learning environment displays the vision.I Vision statement is displayed in the office, classrooms, web site, student and parent handbooks.

I Vision statement is displayed in the office, classrooms, and student and teacher handbooks. I Vision statement is displayed in the office, classrooms, and student handbooks. I Vision learners where they demonstrate how working together everyone will succeed optimally. I Administration, teachers, staff, parents, stakeholders, and students work together to reach a common goal. I Administration, teachers, staff, stakeholders, and parents work together to reach a common goal.

I Administration, teachers, stakeholders work together to reach a common goal. I Administrators, teachers, staff, parents, stakeholders, and students do not work together to reach a common goal. I Administrators promote student learning by creating common assessments through teachers. I Administrators provide teachers with quality information regarding the qualities of effective and balance assessment practices.

I Administration provides teachers with information regarding the qualities of effective and balance assessment practices.I Administration provides teachers with some Administration provides teachers with little to no information regarding the qualities of effective and balance assessment practices. I Administrators provide teachers with support to become an affective teacher. I Administrators observe teachers in their classrooms, mentor, and provide feedback them feedback in a timely manner.

I Administrators observe teachers in their classrooms and provide them feedback in a timely manner. I Administrators observe teachers in their classrooms and mentor.I Administrators observe teachers in their classrooms. I Administrators wear many hats to help promote the learning of students. I Administration manage the curriculum, provide teachers with resources, maintain the facility, communicate with all stakeholders and everyone who is involved in the learning community, etc. I Administration manages the curriculum, maintains the facility, and communicates with stakeholders and parents and students.

I Administration maintains the facility and communicates with stakeholders and parents.I Administration maintains the facility. I Learning environment displays that students gain a foundation of lifelong learning. I School environment holds students accountable for being responsible, committed, obligated, and ethical to meet the foundation of lifelong learning. I School environment holds students accountable for being responsible, committed, and ethical to meet the foundation of lifelong learning.

I School environment holds student accountable for being responsible and committed to meet the foundation of lifelong learning.I School environment holds student accountable for being responsible in order to meet the foundation of lifelong learning. I Student's learning is challenging and meaningful. I Teacher uses higher order thinking questions when planning lessons and while teaching. Students are able to properly answer open/ended questions. I Teacher uses higher order thinking questions when planning lesson, and while teaching.

Most students are able to answer open/ended questions. I Teacher uses higher order thinking questions hen planning lesson, but teacher does not utilize open/ended questions during his/ her lesson.Most students do not answer questions. I Teacher does not use higher order thinking questions when planning lessons and while teaching. Students do not answer open/ended questions.