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Aspiring School Leaders' Insights

This reflection discusses Jasmine Tolbert's relationships with mentors during her clinical internship. She has an official mentor, Lauren Benoit, who she communicates with weekly, as well as unofficial mentors in her school's administration that she meets with several times a week. During this week's internship, Jasmine observed and facilitated meetings, seeing how administrators allowed teachers to guide discussions and provide peer coaching. This aligned with ELCC standard 1.1 by having teachers collaboratively analyze student data and identify trends to improve instruction. Next week, Jasmine will focus on reviewing curriculum for the upcoming year and creating professional development for new teachers.

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Aspiring School Leaders' Insights

This reflection discusses Jasmine Tolbert's relationships with mentors during her clinical internship. She has an official mentor, Lauren Benoit, who she communicates with weekly, as well as unofficial mentors in her school's administration that she meets with several times a week. During this week's internship, Jasmine observed and facilitated meetings, seeing how administrators allowed teachers to guide discussions and provide peer coaching. This aligned with ELCC standard 1.1 by having teachers collaboratively analyze student data and identify trends to improve instruction. Next week, Jasmine will focus on reviewing curriculum for the upcoming year and creating professional development for new teachers.

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Topic 1 Reflection

Jasmine Tolbert

Grand Canyon University: EAD -519 Clinical Internship I

Dr. Cherri Barker

February 10, 2021


Relationship with principal

For this internship, I have the privilege to have one official mentor and several unofficial

mentors. My official mentor is Lauren Benoit, a previous middle school assistant principal who

now works as an administrator for the University of Texas. Since she is not located at my school,

I have enlisted the support of my current administration to support me in this endeavor as well.

My communication with Ms. Benoit occurs weekly, normally on Tuesday. I meet with the

principal, Mariela Mensik, and the assistant principals, Jessi Lopez and Alexa Burdett, several

times throughout the week. I communicate any internship activities that I plan with my school

leadership with Ms. Benoit as I am assigned tasks. Ms. Benoit and I discuss the individual tasks

to ensure that all standards are being addressed.

Significant Leadership Moment

For this week’s internship experience I spent the majority of the time facilitating

meetings and observing or shadowing the principal in the meetings. The two meetings that I

attended were the first-grade team meeting as a facilitator and the kindergarten as observer

shadowing the principal and assistant principal. During the meetings, I observed that the

administrators allowed the teachers to guide the conversations and provided the teachers with

opportunities to share their expertise to support each other. Rather than being the ones to answer

all of the teacher’s questions and provide feedback, they opened the questions up for all of the

teachers to help coach each other. I see this as a valuable skill because information and feedback

from an administrator seem more punitive than when received from a colleague. The premise of

the meetings was to analysis that student data and identify trends across the grades and in various
content areas. This aligns with ELCC 1.1: Candidates understand and can collaboratively

develop, articulate, implement, and steward a shared vision of learning for a school. The teachers

were able to build upon the skill set of each other to improve their instruction to be more

effective for students.

Focus and application

For the upcoming week, I anticipate spending much of my time review the curriculum

that has been chosen for the upcoming year along with creating a summer PD schedule for

returning a new teacher.

References

National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA). (2011). Educational

leadership program standards: 2011 ELCC building level. USA. Retrieved from

www.nobea.org

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