Artifacts from EEND680C

 This class was an empowering but challenging one. The class focuses on educational leadership. I have inquired about educational leadership roles, but I was never sure they were for me. I enjoy the students. I enjoy the autonomy of my classroom. I enjoy the creativity needed to rethink up new ideas for lessons.  The most rewarding artifact from this course was the capstone project. We had to create an initiative that our district would benefit from. I chose to initiate a plan to have students stop and silently read (SSR) for one hour every Wednesday. For the capstone, we had to think like educational leaders. We had to research the demographics or the district to create the need for our initiative, we had to create a board proposal, we had to create a faculty email and meeting, we had to create an entire institute day, we had to collect data and scholarly articles on the topic, as well as create potential data collections.  It was amazing to see how much work adds an initiative into the district.  It was very time-consuming, and I feel for our educational leaders.  SSR Initiative Capstone Project

Another artifact I completed this semester was the observation assignment. I had to create a learning walk-through template for teacher observations. I chose the categories: learning targets, content delivered, students engagement, and classroom organization. I then observed two teachers in my building and used my learning walk. Here is the rubric for the learning walk I created. Learning Walks KERRN