Entry Plan by Craig Martin Michael J.

Perkins Elementary School 2013 2014 School Year

You pursued learning because this is how you asserted yourself as a free person; how you claimed your humanity. You pursued learning so you could work for social uplift, for the liberation of your people. You pursued education so you could prepare yourself to lead your people. ---Dr. Theresa Perry, Professor Introduction to Michael J. Perkins School Community It is an honor to serve as your principal. With great anticipation, I hope to meet with students and their families, staff, BPS liaisons, as well as community partners to gain a deeper perspective on the heart and promise of our school. In hosting one-on-ones, small groups, and conducting surveys with each constituency, I plan to present a narrative of my findings to all that have a vested interest in our childrens growth and development. I extend an invitation to meet with each of you, confidentially and in confidence that I so learn how I may best lead our school. Understandably, each of us has different perspectives and experiences that shape how we see our school and its community. However, with an open mind and a willingness to evolve, we can grow together. This entry plan is a guide that will refine our vision on how to do this work. In concert with the Quality School Plan (formerly the Whole School Improvement Plan), we will use this plan to identify data and themes. Following a series of conversations and communications based upon four questions, I will present my findings to the school community at staff meetings, school site councils, and school based assemblies. Interview Questions:
What do you believe are noteworthy aspects and achievements of the Michael J. Perkins School that everyone should know about? What do you believe we need to adjust about the Michael J. Perkins that you are willing to help improve? What excites you about your role in the Michael J. Perkins School? What else would you like me to know about you and/or the Michael J. Perkins?

We will collectively define action steps to drive instruction, strengthen partnerships, deepen professional teaching and learning capacity, and generate genius and leadership potential in each of our children. I strongly believe in our ability to collaborate with a commanding focus on our childrens desire to be successful. Lets join together and to educate, empower, and elevate our children to their highest potential!

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Core Values Lifelong Learning: With open minds and hearts, we become smarter and stronger as agents of change. Service: Our school community will thrive when each member contributes individually and collectively to the greater good. Respect: We value each person as a member of a global community who flourishes on common understandings, expectations, and actions which leaves a positive impact. Mission The Michael J. Perkins Elementary School will build global learners and leaders who are educated, empowered and elevated to their highest potential. Focus

Student Success: Define. Refine. Enliven. Instructional Leadership Parent Advocacy, Education, and Leadership Develop and Strengthen Community Partnerships

Student Success Missive: Nurture our students to thrive independently as thinkers, learners, citizens, and leaders within our school community. Goals:

Guide our students to set and achieve learning and behavior goals. Develop consistent protocols and reinforcements to support healthy and real world success plan for our learners. Build an academic culture where every student has access to a rigorous and high quality learning experience. Foster opportunities where students can inquire, make choices, and persevere through challenges. Develop student strategies to strengthen number fluency, computational accuracy, and visualization during mathematical problem solving. Produce student urban scientists who inquire, critically think, reason, and express themselves. Build student writers who can express clear ideas creatively.

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Mold our students as school ambassadors and leaders. Strengthen academic learning using technology tools.

Instructional Leadership Team Missive: Cultivate a strong professional learning community where planning and collaboration strengthens instructional capacity and move individual student performance, motivation, and affect; Develop tools that parents, families, and community partners can use to extend learning beyond school walls. Goals:

Create a clear definition of what success looks like for our students, families and community partners. Generate tools and resources that parents and community partners can use to aide students for homework and study purposes. Create a healthy culture of trust, transparency, and collaboration within our professional learning communities Use data to drive inquiry, process, action, and reflection. Set achievable professional and student learning goals. Deepen capacity as instructional leaders and facilitators of professional development.

Parent Advocacy, Education, Engagement, and Leadership Missive: Cultivate a climate where parents view the school as a center for parent advocacy, education, and leadership. Goals: Parent Advocacy: Provide our families with tools and supports to appropriately advocate for their childs academic, emotional, and behavioral needs. Parent Education: Provide workshops and classes that will broaden parents as learners who yield a strong investment in supporting their childrens academic success. Parent Leadership: Empower our School Site Council by providing transparent access to all academic programming and decision making while creating opportunities for parents to support existing needs of the school.

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Parent Engagement: Use Parent University as a vehicle for redefining how our school and parents collaborate as partners; Refine how teachers and staff members support parents as their child(ren)s first teachers.

Community Partnerships Missive: Nurture relationships with community agencies and businesses who are invested in our childrens academic, emotional, behavioral, and physical well-being. Goals: Create opportunities for partners to experience shared leadership and whole-child centered decision-making. Collaborate with community partners to develop programming that advance student success. Generate investments and resources to support school-wide goals and initiatives.

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The Entry Plan In Action

Action Step Collaborate with Network Superintendent and Mentors to create and June 2013 review an action plan that guides the Principal in entry into the school community. Interview and Inquiries with Out-going Principal about roles, June 2013 responsibilities, successes, and opportunities. Conduct observations and inquiries with students, parents, and staff Mid June 2013 members about school culture and climate. Invite staff to share feedback via web-based survey using the Four June to August 2013 Interview Questions. Interview staff members individually and in small groups.
June to August 2013

Timeline

Interviews and Inquiries about roles, responsibilities, resources, On-Going successes, and opportunities with BPS Principals and Mentors Visits and interviews with community partners and BPS department July to September 2013 liaisons. Meet with School Secretary Meet with Custodian
July 2013 August 2013

Conduct interviews and inquiries with school leadership team that August - Septemeber 2013 consist of COSESS, itinerants, Lead Teacher, ELA Facilitator, ILT Facilitator, Math Facilitator, ELL Teacher, and Resource Room Teachers August to September 2013 Meet with paraprofessionals, bus, and lunch monitors Host Meet and Greet the Principal with families at sites around September to October 2013 Boston ( i.e. Mattapan Library, Boston Bowl, Papa Johns in Roslindale). Conduct interviews with small groups of students from Grades 3, 4, September to October 2013 and 5. Review entry plan and data with Network Superintendent Present Plan and Findings at Grade Level Meetings to Staff Present Plan and Findings at School Site Council
Early October 2013 October 2013 Late October 2013, early November 2013

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