SUPPORT FILE FOR NELP STANDARD 5

Standard 5: Community and External Leadership

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 engage families,
community, and school personnel in order to strengthen student learning, support school improvement,
and advocate for the needs of their school and community.

Component 5.1 Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to collaboratively engage diverse
families in strengthening student learning in and out of school.

Component 5.2 Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to collaboratively engage and
cultivate relationships with diverse community members, partners, and other constituencies for the benefit of
school improvement and student development.

Component 5.3 Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to communicate through oral,
written, and digital means within the larger organizational, community, and political contexts when advocating
for the needs of their school and community.

Standard
Artifact/Activity Reflection Source
Component
Worked with our teacher supervisors
and student leaders to orchestrate
Troy High’s
community events, such as raising
5.1, 5.3 Student Troy HS
nearly $40k for “On My Own of
Government
Michigan” during Activist Week,
putting on Senior Citizen Prom, etc.

Supported our two LEAP teacher

supervisors as they build our first LEAP
Troy High’s Troy HS and the
5.2 Program at Troy High, using
LEAP Program Boomerang Project
upperclassmen to mentor and support
our future 9th graders (Class of 2028).

Attended PTO and Boosters meetings to

serve as a liaison between our THS
THS PTO and administration and parent/community
5.1 Athletic Boosters organizations. In attending these Troy High School
Meetings meetings, I provided insights into school
policies, offered support for initiatives,
and continued our goal of collaboration
 to enhance the overall educational
experience for all students.
Spent 4 full days with TSD
administrators, teacher representatives,
and high school students to explore the
future of high school design and
development; we worked together to
establish a framework for a new school Troy School District
TSD High School
5.2 mission and culture, digging into a and Fielding
Design Team
better alignment between mission, International
culture, programs, and physical space;
we spent time investigating and re-
imagining the use of time, space, and
technology in an effort to create a new
vision for high school in the TSD.
Wrote a paper on the pros and cons of
Proposal A in Michigan in effort to
close to per-pupil foundation allowance
5.3 Proposal A Paper gap, guarantee more equity among local EA 8840
school districts, lower property taxes,
and generate more school
accountability.
Analyzed the TSD's budget and made
recommendations so that I could better
understand the financial landscape,
Final Project –
identify areas for improvement, and
Budget
ensure that resources are allocated
5.2, 5.3 Recommendations EA 8840
efficiently to support academic
to the Troy School
initiatives and maintain fiscal
District
responsibility, while maintaining a
World Class learning environment for
all students.