Marta Arciniega

Administrative Internship Overview of Projects

Area of Concern

Needs Assessment

Recognition of
top
performing
students

Student discipline
referrals are increasing
and Honor Roll
membership is
decreasing. Instructional
Leadership Team
expresses the desire to
begin celebrating and
recognizing students that
consistently perform well
academically and
behaviorally.

Action Plan
1. Establish criterion for
consistently performing well
academically and behaviorally.
2. Communicate criterion and
expectations to students,
families, and the community.
3. Invite students, parents, and
community to participate in
encouraging students to become
outstanding students.
4. Find sources of funding for
recognition activities.
5. Plan quarterly celebrations to
recognize outstanding students.

Evaluation

Compare semester
one discipline
referrals and
academic data to
semester two.
Identify if any
increase in Honor
Roll membership.

Competency
Addressed
Competency 1: The
principal knows how
to shape campus
culture by facilitating
the development,
articulation,
implementation, and
stewardship of a
vision of learning
that is shared and
supported by the
school community.
Competency 2: The
principal knows how
to communicate and
collaborate with all
members of the
school community,
respond to diverse
interests and needs,
and mobilize
resources to promote
student success.

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Area of Concern
Emergency
Action Plan:

Administrative Internship Overview of Projects

Needs Assessment
Due to a large number of
new staff members, an
outdated EAP, feedback
from the disaster drill
team regarding staff &
student performance
during monthly drills,
and of course, the audit
that is coming up, campus
administrators have
requested a revised EAP.

Action Plan

Evaluation

1. Review the existing EAP for

1. Conduct ongoing
areas needing revision &
walk-throughs &
updating.
drills to ensure all
2. Perform building walk-throughs
building occupants
to identify any new and/or
are aware of policies
existing issues
and procedures
3. Collaborate with the campus
outlined in the EAP.
leadership team to discuss areas 2. Pass the building
of concern addressed during
audit scheduled for
the month of April.
monthly disaster drills.
4. Consult the district policies
regarding individual campus
EAP.
5. Draft an updated plan.
6. Present plan to building principal
and assistant principal for
approval.
7. Update all rooms with copies of
the approved EAP.

Competency
Addressed
Competency 009:
The principal knows
how to apply
principles of
leadership and
management to the
campus physical
plant and support
systems to ensure a
safe and effective
learning
environment.

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Area of Concern
Teacher use of
data driven
decision
making

Administrative Internship Overview of Projects

Needs Assessment

Action Plan

Upon conducting
1. Collaborate with teachers and
individual data fidelity
Instructional Leadership Team
meetings with Kinderdiscuss possible improvements of
Fifth grade level teachers,
current data collection and
evaluations indicate
maintenance methods.
approximately 20% of the 2. Redesign and update data
teachers scored proficient
collection tool based on
in the categories of
collaborations.
maintenance and use of
3. Provide continued grade level
data collecting tools.
team collaboration time to
discuss the data collected and the
instructional implications they
present.
4. Implement ongoing scheduled
fidelity checks of data collection
and maintenance

Evaluation
Collaboration
meeting agendas
Fidelity check
rubrics
Sample of data
collection snapshot
tool

Competency
Addressed
Competency 4: The
principal knows how
to facilitate the
design and
implementation of
curricula and
strategic plans that
enhance teaching and
learning; ensure
alignment of
curriculum,
instruction,
resources, and
assessment; and
promote the use of
varied assessments to
measure student
performance.

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Area of Concern
Time allocated
for grade
levels 3-5
STAAR target
interventions
and tutorials

Administrative Internship Overview of Projects

Needs Assessment
Based on teacher and
parent feedback, the
morning tutorial time of
7:45 to 8:15 is not sufficient
enough time to impact
students in need of more
intense interventions.
A plan for an afterschool
tutorial program was
presented to the campus
administrators and
approved to begin starting
The week of January 27th.

Action Plan
1. In collaboration with 3-5 grade level
teachers, using data compiled with
the data tool, determine the number
of students needing intensive
interventions.
2. Find sources of funding for an
afterschool-tutoring program.
3. Research, interview, and hire highly
qualified Reading and Math
interventionists.
4. Get local and district approval to
hold after school tutorials for grades
3-5.
5. Communicate with parents and
students plans for an afterschool
tutorial program
6. Plan the logistics of administrative
supervision of student and
instructional staff.
7. Communicate expectations of both
students and teachers participating
in the afterschool program
8. Get parental approval for students
selected to participate in the
afterschool program.
9. Document student and teacher
attendance and assessment scores so
that data points can be analyzed to
evaluate effectiveness.

Evaluation

Student and teacher

attendance sheets
Assessment results
disaggregated by
TEKS addressed in
tutorial sessions
STAAR results
analyzed by student
attendance and
performance
improvement

Competency
Addressed
Competency 4: The
principal knows how to
facilitate the design and
implementation of
curricula and strategic
plans that enhance
teaching and learning;
ensure alignment of
curriculum, instruction,
resources, and
assessment; and promote
the use of varied
assessments to measure
student performance.
Competency 5: The
principal knows how to
advocate, nurture, and
sustain an instructional
program and a campus
culture that are conducive
to student learning and
staff professional growth.
Competency 8: The
principal knows how to
apply principles of
effective leadership and
management in relation
to campus budgeting,
personnel, resource
utilization, financial
management, and
technology use.