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
Served on the interview committees for
Interview Troy HS and Troy
7.1 several new positions at Troy High
Committees School District
School and in the Troy School District.
Attended professional development,
Leadership conferences, and workshops for school
In the TSD and
7.3 Professional administrators with an emphasis on
beyond
Development leading Professional Learning
Communities.
As Asstant Principal, I was trained on
the Charlotte Danielson Model of
Troy HS and
7.3 Teacher Evaluations Teacher Evaluation and used it to
Charlotte Danielson
support and evaluate 30 teachers at THS
during the 2023-2024 school year.
Worked alongside David Pillar from
Solution Tee and Solution Tree and other secondary
Professional administrators to build our Troy School District
7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Learning understanding and capacity for and Solution Tree
Communities professional learning communities at
our buildings.
 Worked closely with the THS admin
team to lead the Professional Learning
Committee work in our building;
Professional coordinated intentional collaboration
7.2, 7.3 Learning opportunities for our THS staff, Troy High School
Communities ensuring alignment with school/district
priorities and nurturing a culture of
continuous growth and learning within
our teaching and student support staff.
Collaborated with student support staff,
counselors, 504 coordinators, teachers,
students, families, and other personnel
Multi-Tiered
to identify students requiring additional
Systems of Support
7.4 academic or behavioral support, Troy HS
(MTSS) Meetings
reviewing data, devising tailored
and 504 Meetings
intervention plans, and monitoring their
effectiveness to promote student
success.
Wrote 10 interview questions that I
Round 2 Interview would use for round 2 of a middle
Questions for school assistant principal; includes the
7.1 EA 8820
Middle School rationale and “deeper/tag question” for
Assistant Principal each of the questions asked during the
interview.