MN Core Leadership Competencies (required for all licensure areas)

Portfolio Evaluation Form

SKILL/KNOWLEDGE
A. Leadership

Initial (ED 695A)

Self Score (1-5) and Comments

A1. Collaboratively accessing and

improving culture, and climate;

4 Have participated in grade-level and

school-wide quantitative and qualitative data
collection and analysis towards building
positive school culture.

A2. Providing purpose and direction for

individuals and groups;

3 More experience with individuals than

groups.

A3. Modeling shared leadership and

decision-making strategies;

A4. Demonstrating an understanding of

issues affecting education

2 Little government control in past

experience schools. I will need to develop, in
particular, legal issues that affect U.S. public
schools in the future.

A5. Through a visioning process,

formulating strategic plans and goals with
staff and community;

3 I have worked with the induction of

positive psychology embedding in my
current school.

A6. Setting of priorities in the context of

stakeholder needs;

1 I have almost no experience in this area

and will need to review stakeholder needs
for my present school in order to increase my
understanding.

A7. Serving as a spokesperson for the

5 In my current role, my primarily role is
welfare of all learners in a multicultural
serving the welfare of diverse learners. I feel
context; Serving as a spokesperson for the very confident in this strand.
welfare of all learners in a multicultural
context;
A8. Understanding how education is
1 Very little exposure to this.
impacted by local, state, national, and
international events;

Mid-Program (Practicums)
Self Score (1-5) and Comments

Final (ED 695B or ED 699)

Self Score (1-5) and Comments

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A9. Demonstrating the ability to facilitate
and motivate others;

3 More confident with motivation of

students at this point than staff

A10. Demonstrating the ability to

implement change or educational reform.

2- At a curriculum level

B. Organizational Management
B1. Demonstrating an understanding of
organizational systems;

Self Score (1-5) and Comments

2 I have a clear understanding of the
organizational systems of private schools

B2. Defining and using processes for

3 I have done this process several times in
gathering, analyzing, managing and using regards to a grade-level, school-wide pastoral
data to plan and make decisions for program program
evaluation;
B3. Planning and scheduling personal and
organizational work, establishing
procedures to regulate activities and
projects, and delegating and empowering
others at appropriate levels;
B4. Demonstrating the ability to analyze
need and allocate personnel and material
resources;

B5. Developing and managing budgets and 2 I currently manage and maintain a
maintain accurate fiscal budgets;
budget for a department program (Film
Studies)
B6. Demonstrating an understanding of
facilities development, planning and
management;

B7. Understanding and using technology as 4 I utilize technology frequently and am

a management tool.
familiar with a variety of different
educational tools

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C. Diversity Leadership
C1. Demonstrating an understanding and
3 I have experience with this in a
recognition of the significance of diversity, classroom or grade-level situation, however
and responding to the needs of diverse
not at a whole-school level.
learners;
C2. Creating and monitoring a positive
learning environment for all students;

4 I feel quite confident in this section

utilizing the underpinnings of both positive
psychology as well as the restorative
practice method

C3. Creating and monitoring a positive

working environment for all staff;

2- While I realize some of the components

that fall into this category, I have never been
directly involved in creating this environment
from a leadership standpoint.

C4. Promoting sensitivity of diversity

throughout the school community;

4- I feel quite confident with this, however,

this has been a primary initiative at many of
the schools that I have experience at

C5. Demonstrating the ability to adapt

educational programming to the needs of
diverse constituencies;

1 I have little to no experience in this area

D. Policy and Law

D1. Developing, adjusting, and
implementing policy to meet local, state,
and federal requirements and conditional
provisions, standards, and regulatory
applications;

1- Because of my time abroad with little

government control, I have little experience
with this.

D2. Recognizing and applying standards of 2 I have limited experience with this.
care involving civil and criminal liability for However, I have dealt with situations
negligence, harassment, and intentional
involving self-harm and parental negligence.
torts;
D3. Demonstrating an understanding of
state, federal, and case law governing
general education, special education, and
community education.

1 I have little experience with this strand.

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E. Political Influence and
Governance
E1. Exhibiting an understanding of school 2- I have limited understanding of this in the
districts as a political system, including
U.S. system, having only been exposed to
governance models;
U.S. schools through student teaching and
one year of teaching experience
E2. Demonstrating the ability to involve
stakeholders in the development of
educational policy;

1 I have no experience in this strand

E3. Understanding the role and

coordination of social agencies and human
services;

E4. Demonstrating the ability to align

constituencies in support of priorities and
build coalitions for programmatic and
financial support.

F. Communication
F1. Formulating and carrying out plans for 5- I feel quite strong in this area, having a
internal and external communications;
plethora of experience communicating with a
variety of activities both school, local, and
overseas
F2. Demonstrating facilitation skills;

4- I have much experience facilitating

experience of activities and seminars both in
and out of the school community.

F3. Recognizing and applying an

3 I have experience with a variety of
understanding of individual and group
different situations, however, applying this
behavior in normal and stressful situations; understanding is generally done by passing
information on to a senior administrator.
F4. Facilitating teamwork;

3 I have experience leading small

committees and groups of staff (up to 6
members)

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F5. Demonstrating an understanding of
conflict resolution and problem solving
strategies;

F6. Making presentations that are clear and 4 My undergraduate degree had a focus on
easy to understand;
presentation skills and oral communication.
Im quite comfortable and confident in
presenting to large groups and have much
experience in an educational setting.
F7. Responding, reviewing and
2
summarizing information for groups;

F8. Communicating appropriately speaking, 5 I feel incredibly comfortable and

listening, and writing for different audiences confident presenting to others and have
such as students, teachers, parents,
extensive experience presenting to students,
community, and other stakeholders;
parents, and the larger community.
F9. Understanding and utilizing appropriate 4
communication technology.

G. Community Relations

Self Score(1-5) and Comments

G1. Articulating organizational purpose and 1 I have little experience dealing with any
priorities to the community and media;
media about organizational purposes. I
hope to learn more about what exactly this
would look like in the Ed. Leadership
program.
G2. Requesting and responding to
2
community feedback;

G3. Demonstrating the ability to build

community consensus;

2 The opportunity for this has never arisen

in my current roles, however, Id feel fairly
confident implementing this.

G4. Relating political initiatives to

stakeholders, including parental
involvement programs;

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G5. Indentifying and interacting with
internal and external publics;

G6. Understanding and responding to the

news media;

G7. Promoting a positive image of schools 3

and the school district;

G8. Monitoring and addressing perceptions 3 I have some experience dealing with how
about school-community issues;
the community perceives schools Ive
worked in in the past, especially with online
message boards and facebook groups.
G9. Demonstrating the ability to identify
2
and articulate critical community issues that
may impact local education.

H. Curriculum Planning and

Development for the Success of All
Learners

Self Score (1-5) and Comments

H1. Demonstrating the ability to enhance

teaching and learning through curriculum
assessment and strategic planning for all
learners, including early childhood,
elementary, middle and junior high school,
high school, special education, and adult
levels;

H2. Demonstrating the ability to provide

planning and methods to anticipate trends
and educational implications.

3 - I make a habit of continuing to subscribe

and read current educational methodology
and trends when possible. I believe that this
strand is particularly important to focus on

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H3. Demonstrating the ability to develop, 2
implement, and monitor procedures to align
sequence, and articulate curriculum and
validate curricular procedures;
H4. Demonstrating the ability to identify
instructional objectives and use valid and
reliable performance indicators and
evaluative procedures to measure
performance outcomes;

H5. Appropriately using learning

technologies;

H6. Demonstrating an understanding of

2 I am familiar with a few alternative
alternative instructional designs, curriculum, programs (B-tech) but I dont think these will
behavior management, and assessment
transfer over to my experience in the U.S.
accommodations and modifications;
Im looking forward to learning more about
alternative curriculum and assessment.
H7. Demonstrating an understanding of
3
urgency of global competitiveness.

I. Instructional Management for

the Success of All Learners
I1. Demonstrate an understanding of
research of learning and instructional
strategies;

Self Score(1-5) and Comments

I2. Describing and applying research and

2
best practices on integrating curriculum and
resources to help all learners achieve at high
levels;
I3. Demonstrating the ability to utilize data 3 I have experience collecting both
for instructional decision making;
quantitative and qualitative data in regards to
curriculum development

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I4. Demonstrating the ability to design
appropriate assessment strategies for
measuring learner outcomes;

3 I am familiar with a variety of different

assessment strategies, particularly traditional
assessment as well as authentic assessment in
both the Common Core and IB programs of
study.
I5. Demonstrating the ability to implement 2
alternative instructional designs, curriculum,
behavior management, and assessment
accommodations and modifications.
I6. Demonstrating the ability to
appropriately use technology to support
instruction.

J. Human Resource Management

J1. Demonstrating knowledge of effective
personnel recruitment, selection, and
retention;

Self Score (1-5) and Comments

2

J2. Demonstrating an understanding of staff 3

development to improve the performance of
all staff members;
J3. Demonstrating the ability to select and 3 I am trained and certificated as a
apply appropriate models for supervision
behavior coach as a method of
and evaluation;
performance management
J4. Describing and demonstrating the
1 Most school systems Ive worked at have
ability to apply the legal requirements for limited legal regulations and requirements,
personnel selection, development, retention, and I am not a part of that process.
and dismissal;
J5. Demonstrating an understanding of
1
management responsibilities to act in
accordance with federal and state
constitutional provisions, statutory and case
law, regulatory applications toward
education, local rules, procedures, and
directives governing human resource
management;

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J6. Demonstrating understanding of labor
relations and collective bargaining; and

J7. Demonstrating understanding of the

administration of employee contracts,
benefits, and financial account;

K. Values and Ethics of

Leadership

Self Score (1-5) and Comments

K1. Demonstrating an understanding of the 2 Much of this particular strand is being

role of education in a democratic society; addressed in my current Ed. Law class at
MSUM and is deepening my understanding.
K2. Demonstrating an understanding of and 2
model democratic value systems, ethics, and
moral leadership;
K3. Demonstrating the ability to balance
complex community demands in the best
interest of learners;

K4. Helping learners grow and develop as 4 I have extensive experience within the IB
caring, informed citizens;
program, whose core is built around building
informed, world citizens
K5. Demonstrating an understanding and
application of the Code of Ethics for
Administrators under Part 3512.5200.

L. Judgment and Problem

Analysis
L1. Identifying the elements of a problem 2
situation by analyzing relevant information,
framing issues, identifying possible causes,
and reframing possible solutions;

Self Score (1-5) and Comments

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L2. Demonstrating adaptability and
conceptual flexibility;

L3. Assisting others in forming opinions

about problems and issues;

4 My current role includes many situations

of working with others collaboratively to
form opinions about problems and how to
address them within the school.

L4. Reaching logical conclusions by

making quality, timely decisions based on
available information;

L5. Identifying and giving priority to

significant issues.

4 Over the past four years, Ive juggled

multiple roles and often need to give priority
to one situation over another. I feel confident
this will transfer over into my role as an
educational leader.
2

L6. Demonstrating understanding of and

utilize appropriate technology in problem
analysis;
L7. Demonstrating understanding of
different leadership and decision-making
strategies, including but not limited to
collaborative models and model
appropriately their implementation.

M. Safety and Security

Self Score (1-5) and Comments

M1. Demonstrating the ability to develop 2 - While I have experience with creating
and implement policies and procedures for risk assessment plans for overseas and
safe and secure educational environments; abroad trips, I have limited experience from a
school-wide perspetive
M2. Demonstrating the ability to formulate 2
safety and security plans to implement
security procedures including an articulated
emergency chain of command, safety
procedures required by law, law
enforcement assistance, communication
with the public, and evacuation procedures;

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M3. Demonstrating the ability to identify
1
areas of vulnerability associated with school
buses, buildings and groups and formulate a
plan to take corrective action;
M4. Demonstrating understanding of
procedural predictabilities and plan
variations where possible;

M5. Demonstrating the ability to develop

plans that connect every student with a
school adult, eliminate bullying and
profiling and implement recommended
threat assessment procedures.

3 A majority of my teaching experiences is

within a schools pastoral program, focusing
on focusing on school climate and acceptance
of all students.