Support File for NELP Standard 7

Standard 7: Building Professional Capacity

Candidates who successfully complete a building-level educational leadership preparation

program understand and demonstrate the capacity to promote the current and future success
and well-being of each student and adult by applying the knowledge, skills, and commitments
necessary to build the school’s professional capacity, engage staff in the development of a
collaborative professional culture, and improve systems of staff supervision, evaluation, support,
and professional learning.

Component 7.1 Program completers understand and have the capacity to collaboratively
develop the school’s professional capacity through engagement in recruiting, selecting, and
hiring staff.

Component 7.2 Program completers understand and have the capacity to develop and engage
staff in a collaborative professional culture designed to promote school improvement, teacher
retention, and the success and well-being of each student and adult in the school.

Component 7.3 Program completers understand and have the capacity to personally engage
in, as well as collaboratively engage school staff in, professional learning designed to promote
reflection, cultural responsiveness, distributed leadership, digital literacy, school improvement,
and student success.

Component 7.4 Program completers understand and have the capacity to evaluate, develop,
and implement systems of supervision, support, and evaluation designed to promote school
improvement and student success.

Standard Artifact/Activity Reflection Source

Component (Course)

7.1, 7.2, 7.3. 7.4 New Teacher I developed a New EA8820

Induction Plan Teacher Induction series
that spanned the first 4
years of a new teacher's
career. This plan included
monthly meetings with
different topics and a
rationale for each topic
chosen.
7.2, 7.3 Individual I developed an IDP that EA8820
Development Plan could be used for a new
(IDP) teacher specifically in
regards to classroom
environment.

7.1, 7.2, 7.3. 7.4 Webster Case This paper allowed me to EA8820
be an “acting” HR Director
who planned out an
effective communication
plan for a new principal,
the staff, and community
members.

7.1, 7.2, 7.3. 7.4 New Teacher I helped plan and facilitate Lakeview Public
Meetings & these meetings for the Schools
Leadership Team 2023-2024 new staff
cohort for Lakeview Public
Schools. These meetings
are held monthly and
cover a range of topics
specific to Lakeview
Public Schools and new
teachers.

7.1 Interview Questions I wrote out a series of EA8820

interview questions that
could be used to interview
for a classroom teacher at
the elementary level. They
could also be modified for
the secondary level.

7.2 Wellness Plan I developed a wellness EA8820

plan for myself as an
educator in an effort to
reflect on my practice and
be mindful of how to
handle the stressors of
being an educator.