Tomorrow, each of the administrators in School District #73 will be attending a professional development session at our McQueen Lake Outdoor Education facility. One of the major topics for discussion at this session will be each of our Professional Growth Plans: each of us will be diving in to our plans to see where we are at and where we are going according to the Leadership Standards created by the BC Principals and Vice-Principals and the accompanying evaluation tool.
Over the last few years I have 'digitized' my growth plan in the form of this blog and subsequently used the blog as a repository for authentic and tangible artifacts of progress. However, I find that I have not been spending enough time reflecting on this progress and targeting it towards my areas of highest need. Tomorrow, I am interested to see where the evaluation tool will direct my attention.
My prediction is that I need to grow in the area of co-developing and implementing systems to monitor the learning environment in our school under Instructional Leadership. This is something that I have worked a great deal on with staff over the last several months from a theoretical perspective, however, we need to create the mechanisms to enable our staff to make the walls of their classrooms more permeable and give them the ability to see and work with other teachers around the ideas of deeper learning.
We will see!
