Professional Growth Plan

Use this form in conjunction with the Standards and Benchmarks for the ESA role in which you serve. Complete one form each standard, including those which you believe you may meet at this time.

Name: Sara McManus Date: May 16, 2013 District or approved Private School: Shoreline School District Building and/or Assignment: Shorecrest High School Standard/Benchmarks: The school counselor demonstrates skills to utilize data and systems change theory to advocate for school policies, programs, and services that enhance a positive school climate. Present Levels of Performance (Includes External Assessment and Self Reflection): The present level of performance includes the use of a needs assessment to determine specific school-wide interventions and pre / post assessment data to gauge the level to which students met the objectives designed for guidance lessons in classrooms and small groups. With data from the interventions for my advocacy project, I will be promoting the use of high impact funds to target credit deficient ELL and exited juniors and seniors during the 2013 2014 school year. This is a school-wide discussion, but could be expanded to look more generally at data about student success and design more school wide intervention to help struggling students. New skills and/or knowledge needed to meet benchmarks? In order to lead school-wide efforts to identify barriers to student learning and create an inclusive, nurturing, and physically safe learning environment I would need to develop an ELL Site Team educated about issues facing first generation students and families. With this group, I would love to attend something like the AVID ELL strand training or some other cultural awareness seminar that would provide insight for the group on issues of family school engagement. Professional Growth Action Plan What specific growth activities will you engage in to obtain the identified new learning and/or skills? ACTIVITIES RESOURCES NEEDED TARGET DATE Create a carousel of data Help data-mining on about student achievement Skyward and other systems By October 2013 Design and conduct a Create survey school and community School-wide survey system October 2013 needs assessment climate survey; study results Create a Site Team to Stipend for bi-monthly meet twice a month and meetings; teachers, staff, October 2013-May 2014 design / pilot interventions administrators, students, community members Pilot Advisory period for Teachers/ Counselors students identified as atwilling to volunteer for November 2013-May 2014 risk for connection piloted intervention groups Evidence proposed to demonstrate meeting Standard/ Benchmarks: Agenda from Site Team Meetings, achievement data before and after interventions, pre / post test data, carousel of data, data from school and community survey