EDLD 5399 Week Three Part 2

I have had an opportunity to gain some helpful insight during my internship experiences. This process allowed for me to visit and work with others in the district. I was able to understand more about others job responsibilities and gain a wide range of knowledge of what we do as a district. With these experiences, I did have the opportunity to make some recommendations.




I serve as a high school principal and my concern with our district mainly focuses on district vertical alignment. High schools are the end result for each district and we want to ensure that when students arrive to our campus that they are ready with the appropriate education that should have presented to them on the junior high and elementary levels. I have visited with our Executive Curriculum Director of Instruction and recommend that a teacher from each core and grade level serve on a committee for vertical alignment. The reason for this is I believe that teachers on the elementary level really does not know what is expected of students on the high school level and secondary teachers do not have any idea of what is taught on the elementary level. My concern is that there is an academic vocabulary issue throughout the district. The district should all be using the same academic vocabulary so that each grade level can build on students’ prior knowledge and we are consistent as a whole. It was great to work with our Executive Director and the curriculum department who were in agreement with me to ensure a true vertical alignment process. Teachers on the elementary and secondary level are now able to visit as a core group and work together to enhance our students’ learning.



I also had an opportunity to work with our Human Resource Department. There are times where I do attend job fairs with our Human Resource Director and many times we share ideas when it comes to recruiting new personnel to our district. Our Hispanic population is increasing each school year and we do not have the personnel to address the growth. I recommended that our district look at attending job fairs that would assist us in recruiting teachers that can help us be a more diverse faculty as a district. We have currently switched a few college job fairs that we attend to other college job fairs to help us hire candidates that are bilingual. Each year, our district is being faced with challenges when it comes to students speaking different languages and we want to be able to address that concern so that all students have the opportunity to be successful.



These intern experiences have been wonderful and I have enjoyed each activity. I have been able to gain a wide in-depth analysis of our district as a whole. These experiences have developed me into a well groomed administrator who now has confidence to one day move up and serve as an assistant superintendent and superintendent.