CSTP

6: Developing as a Professional Educator

Element Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Is aware of the need to Begins to engage in Engages in re lection Re lects individually Maintains ongoing
re lect on teaching re lection on teaching individually and with and with colleagues on re lective practice and
practice to support practice individually colleagues on the re inements in action research in
student learning. and with colleagues relationship between teaching practice and supporting student
Re lects individually or that is focused on making adjustments in connections among the learning and raising
with colleagues on methods to support the teaching practice and elements of the CSTP the level of academic
immediate student full range of learners. impact on the full to positively impact the achievement.
learning needs. range of learners. full range of learners.
Engages in and fosters
re lection among
colleagues for school
wide impact on
student learning.
In my school’s skill This year I have taken
binder we have lessons more of a leadership role
.1 Re lecting on
6 plans that we write, unit with our PBIS Rewards
teaching practice in plans, pacing plans, program. I have been
support of student student work and noticing trends when I run
re lections on lessons. reports on which teachers
learning This is a living document give out the most points
so we are constantly as well as the trends by
adding to and changing the grade level. So I started
document. In addition to taking a few minutes at the
our meetings we actively PD meetings to celebrate
re lect upon and discuss teachers and staff who are
our lessons and what we giving out the most PBIS
have learned and we points and also shared
discuss changes that we data that showed that the
can make to improve 11th and 12th graders are
lessons with a special being awarded the least
focus on improving points per period. I also
student engagement, showed them data that
student success and showed that we were
making lessons relevant. awarding points pretty
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female students.
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I have continued to use I also volunteered to pilot
my skill binder as a our irst CICO (check in
re lective living check out) using the PBIS
document. I look at and Rewards prgram. I have
make changes to my been calling teachers to
lessons. I also constantly make sure that they are
strive to improve student checking in with the
engagement. I collaborate student and creating and
with staff and parents closing out the daily
during meetings, I documents for the
collaborate with teachers student. We are hoping
during PD and after and that this can take the place
before school. 5/10/2022 of our progress
monitoring sheet which is
dif icult for the kids
because they lose the
sheet and is less private
because they have to run
around with a sheet of
paper every day. In
addition, I work closely
with our English dept.
team. to ensure that we are
engaging students in the
curriculum and
school-wide activities.

After each lesson, I take a

moment and re lect upon
the good and the bad, and
the ugly of said lesson I
make adjustments as soon
as possible in order to
enrich my lessons and
ultimately the student’s
experience. 3/20/2023
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Develops goals Sets goals connected to Sets goals connected to Sets and modi ies Sets and modi ies a
connected to the CSTP the CSTP that take into the CSTP that are authentic goals broad range of
through required account authentic, challenging, connected to the CSTP professional goals
processes and local self-assessment of and based on self- that are intellectually connected to the CSTP
protocols. teaching practice. assessment. challenging and based to improve
on self-assessment and instructional practice
Attends required Expands knowledge Aligns personal goals feedback from a and impact student
professional and skills individually with school and variety of sources. learning within and
development. and with colleagues district goals, and beyond the classroom.
through available focuses on improving Engages in and
professional student learning. contributes to Engages in ongoing
development. professional inquiry into teacher
Selects and engages in development targeted practice for
professional on student professional
.2 Establishing
6 development based on achievement. Pursues a development.
professional goals needs identi ied in variety of additional
and engaging in professional goals. opportunities to learn Contributes to
continuous and professionally. professional
purposeful organizations, and
professional growth development
and development opportunities to
extend own teaching
practice.
Each year I re lect on my
goals for the school year
prior to the beginning of
the academic year. I chose
1-2 speci ic goals that I
would like to focus on.
This year I want to focus
heavily on my students'
social emotional needs
due to the isolation that
students expressed. I want
to focus speci ically on
introducing play into my
lessons and fostering
social interactions. During
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out beginning of year PD I
shared these goals with
my colleagues and asked
for advice. In addition we
set a goal for our
department to focus on
vocabulary acquisition.
Finally, our school doesn't
have a break room so we
don’t get much time to
build personal
connections with our
team. In addition, last year
several teachers retired or
moved (we have 6 new
teachers this year out of
16 teachers total). I
launched a Sunshine Club
to help foster personal
relationships and offer
support to new teachers.
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I have continued to work

with teachers to try and
improve vocabulary
acquisition, I have been
doing well with the
sunshine club and I have
lead serval PDs on a
variety of different topics
including PBIS, Edgenuity,
Sunshine Club, Team
Building and Taling
Points. 5/10/2022

This year I have attended a

PD on grading the CASSP
tests, and I have facilitated
training on Talking Points
and No Red Ink. I have
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also been using data from
the PBIS Rewards App to
help motivate and create
buy-in from staff. I have
also asked to go to a PD
for myself and the other
English teachers at the UCI
Writing Conference which
is a full-day PD with
speakers including Gholdy
Muhamad. 11/22/2022

After going to the

conference and attending a
seminar on environmental
change through the
language arts curriculum I
have been re lecting upon
how to employ an
environmentally
appropriate curriculum
well lesson to my
curriculum. I learned a lot
about environmental
racism and I would like to
disseminate this
information to my
students. the area that our
school is in is heavily
mixed with very
high-income and very
low-income students so I
want to make this
culturally appropriate for
all students. 3/20/2023
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Attends staff, grade Consults with Collaborates with Collaborates with Facilitates
level, department, and colleagues to consider colleagues to improve colleagues to expand collaboration with
other required how best to support student learning and impact on teacher and colleagues.
meetings and teacher and student re lect on teaching student learning
collaborations. learning. practice at the within grade or Works to ensure the
classroom level. department and school broadest positive
Identi ies student and Begins to identify how and district levels. impact possible on
teacher resources at to access student and Interacts with instructional practice
the school and district teacher resources in members of the Engages with members and student
level. the broader broader professional of the broader achievement at school
professional community to access professional and district levels and
community. resources that support community to access for the profession.
teacher effectiveness resources and a wide
and student learning range of supports for Initiates and develops
.3 Collaborating
6 teaching the full range professional learning
with colleagues and of learners. opportunities with the
the broader broader professional
professional community focused on
community to student achievement.
support teacher We have several grade This year I took the
and student level and department initiative and I knew
learning meetings each year. In the enough to request a PD for
beginning of the year we our department. My
meet by grade level to school is very open to
collaborate with the sending us to PD’s in fact,
previous years’ teachers our principal forwards
to gain insight on the emails to us about PD’s.
students and we create My irst couple of years I
learning goals for the would try and igure out
students. This is my irst what “sounded good” but I
year on the leadership always felt lost. This year
team. During our weekly I got an email from the
meetings we have WRITE foundation and I
discussed the needs of our read about a PD for
school, our teachers and English teachers at UC
out students and created Irvine and I knew some of
goals and presentations the names! The PD
for our weekly PD seemed like a good it for
meetings. 9/25/21 our team for I suggested it
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I have continued to attend
grade level and
department meeting as
well as the PD on
Wednesdays and I’ve had
the opportunity to go to a
weekend training of CATE
the California Association
for Teachers of English. I
have been using Talking
points heavily to
communicate with parents
and family members. I
participate in After School
evens, volunteer for ield
trips and attend school
dances. 5/10/2022
and we are set to go the
December 8th. There are a
few other things that I
need to set up but I’m
pretty excited. I feel
growth in this area and I
am looking forward to the
PD. 11/22/2022
This year I took the
initiative and I knew
enough to request a PD for
our department. My
school is very open to
sending us to PD’s in fact,
our principal forwards
emails to us about PD’s.
My irst couple of years I
would try and igure out
what “sounded good” but I
always felt lost. This year
I got an email from the
WRITE foundation and I
read about a PD for
English teachers at UC
Irvine and I knew some of
the names! The PD
seemed like a good it for
our team for I suggested it
and we are set to go the
December 8th. There are a
few other things that I
need to set up but I’m
pretty excited. I feel
growth in this area and I
am looking forward to the
PD. 3/202023
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Is aware of the role of Acknowledges the Supports families to Provides opportunities Structures a wide
the family in student importance of the contribute to the and support for range of opportunities
learning and the need family’s role in student classroom and school. families to actively for families to
for interactions with learning. Seeks Adjusts participate in the contribute to the
families. information about communication to classroom and school. classroom and school
cultural norms of families based on community. Supports a
families represented in awareness of cultural Communicates to school/district
the school. Welcomes norms and wide range families in ways which environment in which
family involvement at of experiences with show understanding of families take
classroom/ school schools. and respect for cultural leadership to improve
events. norms. student learning.
I am using the Talking
Points app this year to
communicate to all my
students’ guardians this
year. This is in addition to
.4 Working with
6 adding parents/ guardians
to google classroom and
families to support powerschool to help
student learning monitor students needs
and progress. We have
parent meetings at our
school. This year we
didn’t have a back to
school night due to the
social distancing rules
however I am working on
creating a greeting to
parents and students for
talking points as my
contact log is almost
complete. I also quickly
respond to emails to
parents. 9/25/21

Talking Points and my

tutoring folder have been a
great success this year. I
am working on getting the
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teachers on board so that
this can be a school wide
communication tool. We
have used sign up genius
and zoom to meet with
parents and members of
the community. We had
our irst Home sports
game last Friday which I
attended. 5/10/2022
I have been using Talking
Points in my classroom
and it has proven useful. I
did a PD at the beginning
of the year so that other
teachers can use the
platform. I attend many of
the school events
including Homecoming
and Prom. I am one of the
teachers that students can
rely on to help out when
they are doing club
activities. In additionI am
the facilitator for the
Anti-Reading Book Club
and we went on our irst
ield trip to The Last
Bookstore in LA. We
raised enough money to
give each member $20 to
send in the store which is
nice. 11/25/2022

We have parent meetings

every quarter as well as
board meetings every
month and open house
and back-to-school night
these are all excellent
opportunities to meet and
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talk to parents and
connect them to our
school. in addition, I use
talking points to contact
parents to tell them when
their students are
struggling as well as when
they are doing well.
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Develops awareness Seeks available Uses a variety of Uses a broad range of Collaborates with
about local neighborhood and neighborhood and neighborhood and community members
neighborhoods and community resources. community resources community resources to increase
communities to support the to support the instructional and
surrounding the school. Includes references or curriculum. instructional program, learning opportunities
connections to students, and families. for students.
Uses available communities in single Includes knowledge of
neighborhood and lessons or sequence of communities when Draws from an Engages students in
community resources lessons. designing and understanding of leadership and service
in single lessons. implementing community to improve in the community.
instruction and enrich the Incorporates
instructional program. community members
into the school
learning community.

.5 Engaging local
6
communities in
support of the
instructional
program
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One of the irst
assignments that students
do in my class is get their
Los Angeles Public
Library Card. After they
get the card I have them
search and add 5 books to
their wish lists and
borrow or place 1 book on
a hold.

After our Personal

Narrative unit we began
reading The Tortilla
Curtain by T.C. Boyle. I
have lessons about
gentri ication and I ask
students to research and
apply their knowledge to
identify gentri ication in
their communities. We
also look at the motif of
borders and walls and
make connections.
between the text and their
communities. 9/25/21

I am contunitune to
promote the use of the
public library card and I
am working on doing a
ield trip to our local
library the irst month of
school. I have also
coupled with the After
school program, Think
Together to plan a ield
trip to YALL West next
year. This will give over
40 students the
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opportunity to visit a
literary fair. 5/10/2022
This year I can’t teach the
Tortilla Curtain because of
an offensive word in the
story. I have adjusted my
curriculum, I haven’t
found a new novel to teach
the honors students but I
am using the textbook to
ill in the gaps where the
book was. I feel like this is
evidence of my ability to
change and grow as my
students and society need
me to. 11/25/2022

This year the Anti-reading

Book Club and our
After-School program Gear
Up will be going to Y'all
West in Santa Monica. it is
a young adult literary
Book Festival that will
have authors and
booksellers and panels
that the students can go to
I was able to apply for a
grant through the Y’all
West and we got a free
bus, a free book for each
student, Free tickets to all
the panels, and a free
lunch. this is a great
opportunity for the
students to get out and
celebrate books and
reading. Our Anti-Reading
book club has also been
fundraising to give each
student in the club $20 to
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spend at the literary
Festival. 3/20/2023

Develops an Maintains professional Anticipates Integrates the full Models

understanding of responsibilities in professional range of professional professionalism and
professional timely ways and seeks responsibilities and responsibilities into supports colleagues in
responsibilities. support as needed. manages time and advanced planning and meeting and exceeding
effort required to meet prepares for situations professional
Seeks to meet required Demonstrates expectations. that may be Responsibilities
commitments to commitment by challenging. effectively.
students. exploring ways to Pursues ways to
address individual support students’ Maintains continual Supports colleagues to
student needs. diverse learning needs effort to seek, develop, maintain the
and maintains a belief and re ine new and motivation, resiliency,
in students’ capacity creative methods to and energy to ensure
for achievement. ensure individual that all students
.6 Managing
6 student learning. achieve.
professional
responsibilities to
maintain
motivation and
commitment to all
students
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We use google calendar for
our meetings which
makes keeping
commitments organized
very easy. I made a goal
pre pandemic to have my
desk clean every night
before I leave the
classroom, I have
continued to work on this
goal this year. Staying
organized helps ensure
that I manage my time and
work on what I need to. I
have new goals this year
to try and get to my emails
within 12 hours
(hopefully sooner). I am
working on implementing
a Sunshine Club to halp
create stronger bonds
between staff which
includes my self to make a
stronger support group to
help all teachers and staff
stay positively motivated.
I am lucky to work at a
school that has a pretty
high motivational
environment. In general
we are very student
focused and we are
advocates for our
students. 9/25/21
I continue to use google This year I have had a
calendar as well as my much easier time staying
wall calendar. I have meet up on my grading. I am
my goal for a clean desk still in charge of the
every night almost every edgenuity program, as
night this year. Staying well as the Sunshine Club,
organized has really the Anti-reading Book
helped me. I have also Club, PBIS team, and the
stayed organized by using Leadership team. I feel
my Tutoring Folder and by like it’s a little easier this
switching more year to keep everything
assignments to the online going. I have taken on the
platformI also realized 12th grade Honors Class
that I needed a template and this year I gave the
for saving word docs and students the option to do a
assignments so that I can regular curriculum or a
ind them. I lost a few SyFy curriculum, so I am
from last year and I was working with a brand new
forced to recreate them. I curriculm that I developed
have been keeping up with and I am constantly
Sunshine Club and I have a making adjustments as we
routine where I use my go. I have also been using
TA’s to help me with the the No Red Ink platform
extra work that I have to for students and I think
do to keep the that it has really helped
independent study me differentiate the
students connected to student’s learning
their teachers and make experience. The only thing
sure that the paperwork that I have been really
gets done. 5/10/2022 struggling with keeping up
with is the student
references. I get a lot of
requests for student
references since I am
teaching 12th grade
honors. 11/25/2022
As the school year of
winds down I ind that the
calendar is very
important, in fact, crucial
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to staying on top of
everything that is going
on. right now we are
coming up on our spring
break today the anti
reading book club is
fundraising it Menchie's,
on April 29th Anti-Reading
Book club goes to Ya’ll
West, at the beginning of
Spring Break a group of
students are going to
Europe, prom is on May
19th my birthday, Grad
Night needs to be taken
into consideration even
though I'm not going I
won't have my seniors at
school, and I have to plan
for the CAASPP and Finals.
I use a Wall calendar and a
digital calendar to keep all
the plates spinning.
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ollows all state education codes, legal requirements, district and site
F Maintains a high standard of personal integrity
policies, contractual agreements, and ethical responsibilities.* and commitment to student learning and the
profession in all circumstances.
* As follows:
.7 Demonstrating
6 ● Take responsibility for student academic learning outcomes. Contributes to building professional community
● Is aware of own personal values and biases and recognizes ways in which and holding peers accountable to norms of
professional
these values and biases affect the teaching and learning of students. respectful treatment and communication.
responsibility,
● Adheres to legal and ethical obligations in teaching the full ranges of
integrity, and learners, including English learners and students with special needs. Contributes to fostering a school culture with a
ethical conduct ● Reports suspected cases of child abuse and/or neglect as outlined in the high degree of resilience, professional integrity,
California Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act. and ethical conduct.
● Maintains a non-hostile classroom environment and carries out laws and
district guidelines for reporting cases of sexual harassment.
● Understands and implements school and district policies and state and
federal law in responding to inappropriate or violent student behavior.
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● omplies with legal and professional obligations to protect the privacy,
C
health, and safety of students, families, and other school professionals.
● Models appropriate behavior for students, colleagues, and the profession.
● Acts in accordance with ethical considerations for students.
● Maintains professional conduct and integrity in the classroom and school
community.
I am a strong believer in modeling. I re lect upon my
sanctions and focus on creating strong personal
interactions with students and staff that models the
strong citizens that I want to see graduating from my
school. I think that one of the greatest challenges to
maintaining motivation during our online learning over
the past year. I was very aware of my students’ needs
and focused on creating the most positive learning
environment that I could. I am currently on the
leadership team at my school. I have worked with
several new teachers checking in and offering support. I
have a strong work ethic and a strong sense of integrity
in general. I need to work on making sure that I am also
taking care of myself while managing student and staff
needs. I commute about 1.5 hours to work each
morning and I have routines that are great for my
emotional health during this time (jamming to music in
the morning and listening to audiobooks on the way
home) but I’ve noticed recently that I am ignoring my
physical needs. I get to school fairly early and I have
time, but I haven’t utilized the time to stretch after the
long drive. I need to take the time to do that especially
after the long hiatus from driving. 9/25/21

I have not done as well with my self care this semester.

I have been throwing myself into my work due to some
stress and personal things that I have been having
issues with. I have been keeping up with my walking
but I haven’t been hitting my goal. I have taken two days
off this semester to work on school work for this
program. Which was very good. Usually I am too afraid
to leave my students. Sunshine club is doing well
keeping connections with the staff but everyone is
feeling the need for summer break strongly. I am
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looking forward to next year and I am going to take a
few days this summer to drive to the beach with my dog
and have “me time”. I am also crushing my reading goal
of 60 books this year. I am already on 41. :) 5/10/2022

I think that this time of year is easy for all teachers to

get a little tired. So at this time of year, I try to double
down on PBIS. If we're feeling run down the students are
probably feeling run down as well. so this is the perfect
time to bring out games and fun activities whenever
possible. I also think that Self-care is important during
this time because what we portray to our students also
comes back to us. So I often have students do more
re lective writing and listen to meditation videos.
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