Super Stars Leadership Team

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Super Stars Leadership Team

• Students
• Teachers
• Achieving
• Robison
• Standards

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Starring
Margaret Gallego Aida Aguilar Pat Ojeda Lorraine
Martinez Barb Soto Julie Stewart Betty
Fulcomer Kevin Brown Tom Fisher
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Supporting Cast
Delia Juarez Rey Contreras Pat Lamparzyk Kelly
Viguers Sam Mendez Rex Claussen Rina Tapia
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Produced and Directed
Arizona Department of Education
Wallace Grant Building Leadership to Enhance
student achievement
2005 - 2006
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Knowledge, Communication, Involvement in
Instruction, Curriculum, and Assessment

• Parent Communication parent newsletter and
  homework notebook
• Office Communication weekly envelope
• Class and School Rules update rules and system
  for classrooms
• Writing Workshops Completed in November

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Knowledge, Communication, Involvement in
Instruction, Curriculum, and Assessment

• Visit and Observation in Classrooms Team visited
  each others classroom
• Monthly Math Lessons Mrs. Milano
• Ecosystem Curriculum develop and share
  communication skills, and knowledge across grade
  level
• Hurricane Katrina Aid 3rd grade lead school
  wide effort

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Culture and Discipline

• Student Recognition lunch with the principal,
  student of the month, perfect attendance, bumper
  stickers, and individual classroom
  acknowledgements
• Monday Assembly monitor by grouping class
• Counselor Curriculum citizenship, character
  building, bullying, creating a culture of
  respect, rule/leadership

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Culture and Discipline

• Discipline school wide addressing inappropriate
  behavior in a timely manner per TUSD policy.
  Consequences were discussed
• TUSD Discipline Policy distributed to entire
  staff
• Achieve It Programimplementing math program for
  3rd grade
• Geography Program extended to include K-5

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Flexibility and Review of Culture and Discipline

• TUSD and Site Policies reviewed regarding
  discipline and consequences
• After School Detention for severe behavior
  problems that interrupt classroom learning, and
  possible use of extra duty pay for teachers
  supervising detention
• Attendance discuss attendance and brainstorm
  ideas to increase attendance

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Flexibility and Review of Culture and Discipline

• Wednesday Math Marathon implemented for 3rd
  grade
• Math with Mrs. Milano Program planned and
  focused on math strands for continuation of
  program
• School Wide Study Groups ELL Scholastic Red,
  pending continuation of Marzano Effective
  Teaching Strategies, and implementing The
  Skillful Teacher

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Leadership Skill - Order

• Operating procedures and Routines daily agenda
• Performance Objectives posted by entire school
• Classroom Attendance display of daily classroom
  attendance
• School Procedures opening and closure of school
  day
• Bathroom Procedures walking quietly, no writing
  on walls

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Leadership Skill - Order

• Discipline Procedures consistency throughout
  school
• Homework writing down daily assignments
• Hall Passes orderly student traffic before
  school, during school, and during lunch
• Cafeteria Procedures follow goal for the week
  and clean up
• Morning Procedures ongoing discussion on
  placement of students during cold weather

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Situational Awareness Becoming aware of the
details and undercurrents in running a school
and use this information to address current and
potential problems.

• Blue Rail(by Warner Building) viewed as
  hindrance and had no purpose.
• Removed to allow access to playground and
  northern field.
• Monitors on playground need for more monitors,
  and/or develop student cadre
• or peer mediators. Ms. Ojeda would assist in
  forming cadre identifying current
• students to begin training/mentoring sessions and
  begin Bully Proofing Program
• Tagging and gang activity in community and
  school were making
• Recommendation to get SRO and/or Officer Jack
  Wixon (Julies Father), TUSDs
• Safety Director Warren Allison (Lauries
  cousin) to come and address our student body and
  staff.

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Situational Awareness

• Meeting minutes staff awareness of school groups
  decisions affecting our school and minutes of
  their meetings. (PTSC, Optimist Club, Social
  Club, Student
• Council) especially the TUSD board.
• Special Ed. Subs lack of subs affecting
  efficiency of classroom and welfare of students
  (Mr. Fisher) What can we do?
• Communication Upgrade effecting equipment,
  materials, supplies, and storage of these items.
  Each teacher keeps a master inventory of items.
  Ask input
• from staff.

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Situational Awareness

• Use of Warner Building suggest that be
  converted to school
• library. Wireless internet hook up currently
  being investigated.
• Also discussed, using space for art specialist to
  conduct classes
• and have section partitioned for that purpose and
  safety of
• personnel in Warner Building. A master key or
  repair of doors
• needs to be addressed and acted on.
• Parking issues safety of students was
  discussed. Placement
• of cones at entrance of main parking lot to help
  divert traffic.
• Suggested that a police officer be visible at
  beginning of year
• and intermittently throughout year. Crosswalk
  use by students
• isnt used properly. Beginning year assembly to
  address issue.
• Petition to City Council to make four way stop on
  Treat and
• 18th suggested.

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Situational Awareness

• Designation of playground area for safety
  reasons during lunch playground should have
  Primary Area and Intermediate Area. South area
  for K-3 grades and north area for 4th and 5th
  grades.
• Positive change during lunch has been noticed
  in way students walk orderly in hall. Thanks to
  Mr. Fishers efforts. Address/revisit this issue
  at the beginning of year.
• Appearance of school suggested adoption of an
  area of school by each classroom or grade level.
  Classes conducting bake sales responsible for
  wrappers and trash clean up afterwards.
• Classroom Security office manager should inform
  of a teachers absence and need to lock door
  immediately after school. For safety issues,
  when possible, classroom key should be issued to
  sub.

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Visibility

• Revisited school wide decision making process
• Leadership responsibilities decision made to
  create assessment
• tool to assess indicators of leadership
  responsibilities as outlined
• in Marzano.
• Principal reads to classrooms promotes literacy
  integrating reading strategies.

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Visibility

• Principal as support person is integrating
  curriculum in use of
• word of the week during Monday address to student
  body.
• Student visibility recommended more students
  become more
• visible during this time. i. e. student council
  president and
• after school sports representative.
• Teacher and Principal visibility during school
  wide functions
• to promote school spirit. Fall carnival,
  Walk-a-thon, Winter
• Program, Dr. Seuss Read In, Spring Program- Baile
  De Las Flores,
• PTSC and Parent Teacher Group.

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