Safety is the #1 Priority in Education; Make the Right Choice!
If you click on the link twice all educators in the State of California can see what some the major procedures are done in a major disaster. As a future educator, I am planning on doing more. I want to first start with the schools safety plan. We will be forming a safety committee to overlook and analyze the proper procedures to help secure safety on our campus. We will put a plan in action which will be school board approved and then practiced based on the districts practice schedule. These plans will include earthquake drills, evacuations for fire drills, and intruder drills. Each one of the these three plans will be practiced by the entire student body, staff, and community members who are located on our campus at the time of procedures.
Some of the new procedures that I plan on implementing would be a major disaster drill. Some situations that would be implemented would be bomb treats. As a future principal, I would plan on presenting my ideas to my safety committee in order to enhance the proposal. Since this is a community proposal of a bomb threat there will be an additional steps of including all community members to the board meeting to make sure that all community members that want to be involved can be. Once the committee has looked at the ideas, given feedback, and then the next step is to go to the school board for approval. Once the approval has been established then the plan of attack can be enforced within the school site. I plan on having a community rally with students on how to implement such a large scale of community awareness for a major disaster. After the school rally has occurred there will be a date and bell schedule switch for all students, staff, and community members to practice the drill.
Including Pleasanton Police Department is another high priority for my role as a future educator. We have Resource Officers on Campus and I plan to implement them to the best of my ability. Keeping them in the loop and having them reinforce the plan of attack will help the students, staff, and community as well. If there is any questions related to the procedures, then we will have them contact Pleasanton Police Department to make sure all questions and procedures and answered to community, parents, students, and staff members. Please call them at (925)-931-5100.
Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Plan (PBIS)-Can Reinforce Student Achievement In So Many Areas!
A website is a great resource for understanding, delivering, and gaining knowledge. If you click on the link above then as an educator can see all the positives about putting a website together. The resources are helpful for the staff, students, parents, and the community. As a future leader, I am planning on implementing these resources in several ways. First, by providing Staff Development Training for all staff members in this area. I want staff to be able to utilize all resources available for the curriculum material, for promoting conflict resolution, regaining classroom management, and preventing areas of bullying. I plan on implementing lessons during regular staff development training and gaining feedback from staff on how to encourage, support, and supply any and all necessary material.
Secondly, providing special in service training in this area is another top priority. Allowing for staff to take days within their departments to learn, feed off of each others ideas, and implementing the Tier one, two, and three programs can highly benefit my school. I want staff to come back with more than a hand full of knowledge and just trying it in the classroom. I want reinforcements to go within the entire curriculum and students to achieve at the highest possible level. This can be done by promoting, sharing data on the improvements, and demonstrating on how other educational systems are utilizing PBIS within their own schools.
Finally, I want my staff to be able to do presentations to the community and parents at events such as "Back to School Night". This will help introduce and promote the PBIS program and help the Pleasanton Unified School District(PUSD) go in an upward state for discipline, alternatives to suspensions, and promote the "Amador Way". The "Amador Way" is acts of kindness in which we reinforce as educators for students to demonstrate beyond high school.
Zero Tolerance Polices-Are they mandatory in your district?
There are many pluses and minuses to having a zero tolerance policy in your school district. By clicking twice on the you tube video then educators can view all of these policies. Since there are many minuses within the zero tolerance policy there are many obstacles to overcome as a future leader. As a future leader, I plan on restoring positive behavior and classroom management. One of the ways I want to do this is to implement the safety procedures that need to ensure safety for all students, staff, and community. I plan on implementing zero tolerance policies for weapons, alcohol usage, and drug policies. These will be mandated to keep order at the school site and hold circumstances over students heads for not doing the behavior or action.
As a future leader, I plan on implementing my alternatives to suspensions within the school site setting and the community programs as well. Be establishing the in house suspensions and working with teachers to implementing work then learning can continue. Students will no longer be off from school as a reward. It will be an adjustment to all, but learning can continue in a very positive way. With an alternative suspension plan in place students can achieve and the reinforcement of behavior can continue within the educational system. Our community system programs will be the pre established programs that have our students commit and do public service out to our community. These programs are designed to help students restore conflict, help them with community connections, and establish a better rapport within the community.
Another priority of mine as a future leader is to help the students with disabilities with behavior issues. I want to develop the Tier one, two, and three in order to help these students and not remove them from their learning environment. Behavior programs are a high priority for safety, classroom management, and improving the academic performance for all these students. Incorporating these types of programs are a win for a win. A win for students, academic learning, parents, and the community.
Educational Codes, Laws, and Discipline
Knowing the Educational Laws, School Board Policies, and Disciplinary Actions can help when being in Educational Leadership. As a future leader, I plan on knowing the educational codes by heart. The ones that I have experience in is Religion in Schools, Student Records, Tenure Teacher Dismissal, Students with Disabilities, Cyberbullying, and Administrating Medication and Monitoring Health Conditions. These are just a few cases that I have encountered within the future leadership position.
As a future leader the attention will be put on being strict with the educational laws to enforce the necessary behaviors that I want incorporated into my school site. I want classroom management, a positive culture on campus, and a climate that supports positive behavior. This can be demonstrated by knowing the educational laws, attending school board meetings, and promoting classroom management to the educational staff. Taking the time to teach and implement the standards that I want to incorporate as a future leader can be done with educational training during in services and the staff training days.
Building a positive school climate comes with sharing the vision of my school site and having my staff members buying into the vision. Staff needs to share the vision in order to help prevent future happenings occurring at the site. I feel that implementing strict laws to the educational codes will help with overall discipline and support for a positive based learning environment within the classrooms. This will promote the environment that I want as an educational leader.
The leadership skills that I want to demonstrate will be fair, non basis, and promote a positive model of attitude toward dealing with all groups involved. By demonstrating these models then acts of fairness are modeled, less lawsuits are put on school districts, and maintaining a precise decision on the overall outcome usually comes out in the right direction. This can be done by demonstrating good leadership skills throughout the school site for all students and staff through all models of education.
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