Stoa – Educational Leadership Portfolio

Dan Stoa

  1. Dan Stoa
    1. Resume
    2. Letters of Reference
    3. Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement
    4. Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms
    5. Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness
    6. Standard 4: Learning and Instruction
    7. Standard 5: Community and External Leadership
    8. Standard 6: Operations and Management
    9. Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity
    10. Standard 8: Internship

Resume

Website Design

  1. Dan Stoa
    1. Resume
    2. Letters of Reference
    3. Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement
    4. Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms
    5. Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness
    6. Standard 4: Learning and Instruction
    7. Standard 5: Community and External Leadership
    8. Standard 6: Operations and Management
    9. Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity
    10. Standard 8: Internship

Letters of Reference

  1. Dan Stoa
    1. Resume
    2. Letters of Reference
    3. Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement
    4. Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms
    5. Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness
    6. Standard 4: Learning and Instruction
    7. Standard 5: Community and External Leadership
    8. Standard 6: Operations and Management
    9. Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity
    10. Standard 8: Internship


Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement

Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation program understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to collaboratively lead, design, and implement a school mission, vision, and process for continuous improvement that reflects a core set of values and priorities that include data use, technology, equity, diversity, digital citizenship, and community.

The mission, vision and core values of every school guide the work of educators. It is the responsibility of the educational leader to guide a collaborative process that develops, reviews, and creates core values that all stakeholders commit to in respect to the mission and vision of learning in the school. This is not the sole mission and vision of the leader but of the collective members engaged in the work of the school.

  1. Dan Stoa
    1. Resume
    2. Letters of Reference
    3. Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement
    4. Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms
    5. Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness
    6. Standard 4: Learning and Instruction
    7. Standard 5: Community and External Leadership
    8. Standard 6: Operations and Management
    9. Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity
    10. Standard 8: Internship


Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms

Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation program understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to understand and demonstrate the capacity to advocate for ethical decisions and cultivate and enact professional norms.

The ethical leader must regularly consider all possible outcomes decisions may create within a system while paying special attention to outcomes that may be far away from the decision in time and space. The values inherent in the organizational mission guide the leader toward decisions that promote the well being of all students through processes that are designed to fulfill the collective mission.

  1. Dan Stoa
    1. Resume
    2. Letters of Reference
    3. Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement
    4. Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms
    5. Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness
    6. Standard 4: Learning and Instruction
    7. Standard 5: Community and External Leadership
    8. Standard 6: Operations and Management

Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness

Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation program understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to develop and maintain a supportive, equitable, culturally responsive, and inclusive school culture.

The effective educational leader consistently engages with stakeholders from a variety of perspectives to find barriers within the system that may exclude certain groups from pivotal components of school culture. This requires a constant response to patterns that emerge as individuals engage within the system.

  1. Dan Stoa
    1. Resume
    2. Letters of Reference
    3. Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement
    4. Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms
    5. Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness
    6. Standard 4: Learning and Instruction
    7. Standard 5: Community and External Leadership
    8. Standard 6: Operations and Management
    9. Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity
    10. Standard 8: Internship

Standard 4: Learning and Instruction

Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation program understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to evaluate, develop, and implement coherent systems of curriculum, instruction, data systems, supports, and assessment.

The effective educational leader understands best practices in instruction, learning supports and assessment. The effective leader uses develops a system to collect data to evaluate how well best practices are implemented in classrooms. But the effective leader promotes the expertise and experience of teachers, who complete the daily work with students, to collectively develop robust curriculum in each classroom.

  1. Dan Stoa
    1. Resume
    2. Letters of Reference
    3. Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement
    4. Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms
    5. Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness
    6. Standard 4: Learning and Instruction
    7. Standard 5: Community and External Leadership
    8. Standard 6: Operations and Management
    9. Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity
    10. Standard 8: Internship

Standard 5: Community and External Leadership

Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation program understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to engage families, community, and school personnel in order to strengthen student learning, support school improvement, and advocate for the needs of their school and community.

The effective school leader continually engages all stakeholders for ideas to improve learning. This work begins with staff in the building but must branch out to students, families and all connected to the school community. A strong school leader develops ways to elicit feedback from those voices heard from the least.

  1. Dan Stoa
    1. Resume
    2. Letters of Reference
    3. Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement
    4. Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms
    5. Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness
    6. Standard 4: Learning and Instruction
    7. Standard 5: Community and External Leadership
    8. Standard 6: Operations and Management
    9. Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity
    10. Standard 8: Internship

Standard 6: Operations and Management

Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation program understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to improve management, communication, technology, school-level governance, and operation systems to develop and improve data-informed and equitable school resource plans and to apply laws, policies, and regulations.

The effective school leader carries out the management of the system with a constant eye toward ensuring the operation of the system most effectively supports the organizational mission and vision. This requires frequent and consistent communication with the team members who carry out the daily work in support of the mission.

  1. Dan Stoa
    1. Resume
    2. Letters of Reference
    3. Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement
    4. Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms
    5. Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness
    6. Standard 4: Learning and Instruction
    7. Standard 5: Community and External Leadership
    8. Standard 6: Operations and Management
    9. Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity
    10. Standard 8: Internship

Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity

Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation program understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments necessary to build the school’s professional capacity, engage staff in the development of a collaborative professional culture, and improve systems of staff supervision, evaluation, support, and professional learning.

The effective school leader continues to engage staff in professional learning to improve their craft in respect to the organizational mission and vision. This includes professional development designed by an administrative team and outside professional development opportunities that staff members know will improve their craft in their specific context.

  1. Dan Stoa
    1. Resume
    2. Letters of Reference
    3. Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement
    4. Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms
    5. Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness
    6. Standard 4: Learning and Instruction
    7. Standard 5: Community and External Leadership
    8. Standard 6: Operations and Management
    9. Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity
    10. Standard 8: Internship

Standard 8: Internship

Candidates successfully complete an internship under the supervision of knowledgeable, expert practitioners that engages candidates in multiple and diverse school settings and provides candidates with coherent, authentic, and sustained opportunities to synthesize and apply the knowledge and skills identified in NELP standards 1–7 in ways that approximate the full range of responsibilities required of building-level leaders and enable them to promote the current and future success and well-being of each student and adult in their school.

The effective school leader prioritizes time and resources based on the most impactful practices for improvement in the learning environment. This requires working on multiple projects and tasks simultaneously, while uplifting the critical components of the work that will fulfill the organizational mission.

  1. Dan Stoa
    1. Resume
    2. Letters of Reference
    3. Standard 1: Mission, Vision, and Improvement
    4. Standard 2: Ethics and Professional Norms
    5. Standard 3: Equity, Inclusiveness, and Cultural Responsiveness
    6. Standard 4: Learning and Instruction
    7. Standard 5: Community and External Leadership
    8. Standard 6: Operations and Management
    9. Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity
    10. Standard 8: Internship