Vision

A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by **facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by the school community.**
 * __ STANDARD 1: VISION __**

The artifacts included below involve a school-wide history day exhibition/competition that I envisioned back in 2005, put into action (with the help of colleague collaboration) in 2006, and have since revised. This is a project that __every__ 10th grade student at Upper Arlington High School now completes as a capstone to their experience in American Studies class. In 2012, we (a collaborative team of approximately 16 teachers) changed the format of this event from one that included primarily display boards to a documentary film festival. This adaptation helped increase the rigor for students and asked that they employ more technology. Every student is assigned a time and location to present his/her work to an audience of school staff, visiting university professors, parents, members of the student body, and other members of the community. My vision for this experience was to create a rigorous and authentic learning experience that would involve the entire school and community, and that vision has come to life.
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 * __Artifacts__: **
 * This event takes a considerable deal of development, communication, and consensus-building/negotiation skills. Roughly 16 teachers from three different departments (Language Arts, Social Studies, and Library/Media) are directly involved in helping students develop their research-based documentaries. In order to ensure consistent expectations in regard to student performance, we had to collaborate to develop a common Holistic Scoring Guide. **




 * This email to American Studies teachers shows how I communicated with colleagues in order to build the schedule for this event in 2012:**




 * Here is a link to the room schedule that I created in 2012. Every 10th grade student in the school had to be assigned a specific time to present his/her work: [|UAHD Room Schedule]**


 * These two artifacts show two things: 1) How I communicated with the entire UAHS staff in regard to how they would participate in this event. 2) How the project was revised between 2011 (various displays) and 2012 (film festival) to improve rigor and organization of the day.**






 * This project was adapted from the National History Day contest. Although we changed many of the requirements to fit the needs of our students/school, use use the annual themes established the the NHD organization. This artifact is an example of the theme sheet.**




 * This is a letter of recommendation from Kip Greenhill, principal of Upper Arlington High School at the time that I conceived and implemented this project. In this letter, Greenhill speaks specifically to my involvement with this event.**