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Category A: Organization for Student Learning toc

To What Extent...

 * does the school leadership encourage the cultivation of Catholic values and the spiritual formation of the school community?
 * does the school leadership make decisions to facilitate actions that focus the energies of the school on student achievement of the expected schoolwide learning results?
 * does the school leadership empower the staff?
 * does the school leadership ensure shared accountability for student learning?

Suggested Areas to Analyze

 * administrator and faculty written policies, charts, and handbooks that define responsibilities and relationships
 * the existing structures for internal communications, planning and resolving differences
 * strategies for team building used at the school
 * examples of collaboration across the school
 * the process for regular review of the existing structures
 * the leadership's processes and procedures for involving staff in shared responsibility, actions, and accountability to support student learning
 * the level of actual staff involvement in actions focusing on successful student learning and faith development
 * the degree to which the actions of the leadership are directly linked to student achievement of the expected schoolwide learning results
 * the measure of accountability to the pastor and religious community affiliation, where applicable
 * the degree to which the administration plans and coordinates regular staff meetings and makes provision for department meetings
 * the procedures for staff evaluation, including formal and informal classroom observations and student and parent input
 * additional evidence

Guiding Questions


 * To what extent does the school leadership encourage the cultivation of Catholic values and the spiritual formation of the school community?

The school leadership encourages the cultivation of Catholic values and the spiritual formation of the school community, especially with recent changes (see evidence).
 * To what extent does the school leadership make decisions to facilitate actions that focus the energies of the school on student achievement of the expected schoolwide learning results?

To a great extent school leadership make decisions to facilitate actions that focus the energies of the school on student achievement of the expected schoolwide learning results.
 * To what extent does the school leadership empower the staff?

To some extent the school leadership empowers the staff. When the staff is empowered, we are fully empowered. However, there are times when we are just informed about decisions with absolutely no input (not empowered at all).


 * To what extent does the school leadership ensure shared accountability for student learning?

To a small extent the school leadership ensures shared accountability (especially with availability of electronic resources for student learning); however, we think the teachers are often held to a higher level of accountability than students and parents/guardians.

Director of Faith and Service position created (Peter Shelley's);  Weekly mass before school (Wed morning);  Leadership team for Monday morning prayer;  Two chapters of Holy Cross Associates;  leadership encourages faculty/staff to participate in student retreats and often attend themselves;  Holy Cross Institute;  attendance at international celebrations/canonization;  "Blessed Basil Moreau and St. Andre Besette pray for us";  Relics preserved and honored on campus;  Holy Cross Mission Assessment;  Faculty/staff retreat at the beginning of the school year including service project;  Father Moreau Day (Book Drive);  Junior retreat (optional);  Sophomore immersion (to St. Anthony’s);  Frosh retreat (at school w/ theology class);  Prayers begin every meeting run by leadership and provided to department chairs before department meetings; ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As of today (3/25), only 25 out of 227 seniors have participated in the Kairos program. Is it due to lack of institutional support? Not all faculty and staff "buying" into the program. Could faculty/staff attendance at retreats count as prefecting? ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> one to one laptop program; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> communication via the Student Handbook <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Professional development; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> library staff involvement in expanding our technology: databases, site licenses, e-books, LibGuides etc. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Curriculum Mapper and the addition of the "reflection" column; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lunch with the Principal; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Student Curriculum Committee; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Link Crew; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Schoolwide assemblies (i.e., Keith Hawkins spoke with Campus Ministry, ASB, and Link Crew about leadership skills, etc. and Lopez Lomong and Invisible Children, Black History Month, Academic Awards Assembly); <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Father Moreau Day; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Culture Week; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Earth Week; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Student of the Month; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Academic Support Center; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Counselor dedicated to Saints and Scholars Program (Andrea brings in speakers for students, faculty & parents); <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Summer school opportunities; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tech Camp; ||  ||   ||   || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Faculty/staff included in re-tooling of collaboration; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Workshop decided by Math Dept; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Leadership researching and forwarding development opportunities (ABC-CLIO Webinar for SS Dept); <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Faculty included in curriculum and textbook/e-book decisions and choices; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Coaches and co-curricular activities allowed autonomy in their sport/art; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Faculty/staff involved in the examination and modification of the ESLRs; ||  ||   || Dept days/collaborations are taken away; Top down decisions without faculty/staff input (calendar); Sometimes feel teachers are held responsible for the lack of student progress when we have taken every reasonable step to assist success; Leadership at times has expressed a desire to shy away from disciplinary action in response to work not turned in, resulting in the teaching staff feeling un-empowered; Schedule of classes often finalized without any teacher/Dept Chair input (especially PE considering facility restraints); Teachers don't feel empowered to not allow student-athletes to leave class early for athletic events when they are struggling students or to require attendance at collab to make up for the time missed; || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> However, teachers are often held to a higher level of accountability and responsibility than students and parents/ guardians. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parent/Guardian access to PowerSchool and Moodle; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Back to School Night; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Parent/Teacher conferences; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Academic Support Center; ||  ||   || We have Teacher/Student responsibility listed in handbook, but no parent/guardian responsibilities; Teachers' experience is that they feel that they are held more responsible than students (especially in the recent approach to D/F students); Need a leadership point person (like Tom did a couple of years ago with D/F students); Course evaluations; Teacher observations; Feedback opportunities for faculty/staff to the leadership ||
 * Areas of Strength || Evidence ||  || Areas of Growth || Evidence ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">School leadership encourages the cultivation of Catholic values and the spiritual formation of the school community. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kairos experience added; faculty/staff encouraged to attend and given release time; school leadership attendance at Kairos;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">School leadership makes decisions to facilitate actions that focus the energies of the school on student achievement of the expected ESLRs (schoolwide learning results). || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many aspects of the school community are included in "school leadership": AD, Faith Formation, Finance, IA, APs, and Principal;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the staff feel empowered, we are fully empowered. However, there are times when we are just informed about decisions without an opportunity to give input (not empowered). || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(we are responding to this as faculty/staff, not just "staff") professional development opportunities forwarded, encouraged and funded;
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The school leadership ensures shared accountability especially with availability of electronic resources for student learning.
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__11/30/10-Anne Arriaga (Minutes)__ Everyone will be a recorder - alternate weeks. Colleen will send out schedule for recorders. One person will not dominate the conversation. Don't take things personally. Be mindful of how we say things. Respectful in our speech. Notify Colleen ahead of time if we aren't going to be there. Decisions decided by the majority. Everyone will be responsible for taking turns gathering evidence. There will be sufficient time given to collect evidence.
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