Intern Application/Site Supervisor Agreement Plan pages 1 and 2

Internship Agreement

Lamar University – Superintendent Certification
Application for 9-Month Superintendent Internship Program (Field Experience-Practicum) and Mentor Application and Agreement:

Directions:

• After completing the Application, submit to your  Electronic (TK20) Field Experience Binder.  Submit the completed application with electronic signatures.

Date:   __9/13/2011________

Name:  ___Randall Scott Nedrow_______________________ Student ID#: _L20118038_______  SS#:_xxx-56-6709____________

Address: 2111 Serene Court_________________________            City: __Keller,Texas_______________ Zip: _76248______

Phone: (___)___N/A_______  Cell Phone:  (_817__)_683-6695_________ 

E-mail:_rnedrow________ @my.amar.edu                Home E-Mail:  __s_nedrow@hotmail.com__________________

 Field Experience Diversity Information:

Gender:             Female            Male

Ethnicity (mark one): 

        African American            Hispanic            White              Native American

                            Asian/Pacific Islander                          Other

Using information found in the AEIS District Report, report Characteristics of Students who are part of your field experience. This information may be obtained from your district or from TEA’s Accountability Report links.

Ethnicity or culture                           % from AEIS District Report

African American	24.5%
Hispanic	60.5%
White	13%
Native American	0.3%
Asian/Pacific Islander	1.8%
Other

Demographic Information for Students who are part of your field experience:

% from AEIS District Report

English Language Learners	Yes	No	28.6%
Economically Disadvantaged	Yes	No	75.3%
At-Risk	Yes	No	58.5%

Proposed Location of your Field Experience (Internship practicum):

School Name:   __Fort Worth ISD ______________________________________                          

Address: _1411 Maydell Street_______________________  City: _Fort Worth, Texas___________  Zip:________

District:  __Fort Worth ISD___________________     Region:  _13______(  1 – 20)

Site Supervisor/Mentor Agreement

As a site supervisor/mentor, I recommend __Randall Scott Nedrow____________________ for acceptance into the Internship program at Lamar University.  I will provide this graduate student with assistance and opportunities necessary to fulfill the requirements of the Superintendent Internship practicum (field experience), which is to number a minimum of 120 hours. The intern applicant is granted permission, including time when permissible for practical experience, to work toward completion of the Internship under the supervision of a Cooperating Supervising/Mentor Administrator and Lamar University Consulting Supervisor (a member of the Educational Leadership faculty – e.g., Dr. Elvis Arterbury, Dr. Bob Nicks, Dr. Steve Jenkins, Dr. Lu Stephens, Dr. Jimmy Creel, or Dr. Roy Benavides).

Please check:

           The student Intern has given me the Mentor/Site Supervisor Handbook, or provided me with an electronic version.

           The student Intern has discussed his/her needs about the program and I accept.

Signature and Title:  __Clifford Mayer/ Director of Induction, Development and Retention/HCM___________________________________________ Date:__9/13/2011_______

Print E-Mail address for Supervisor/Mentor:   ___clifford.mayer@fwisd.org/_________________________________________________________________________

Mailing Address of Supervisor/Mentor:   3150 McCart Ave., Suite214 Fort Worth, Texas, 76110

____________________   City: _Fort Worth,Texas________ Zip:  _76110____

All intern site supervisors/Mentors must have a Texas certificate in school administration.

Final Course Reflection 5396

REFLECTION-Week 5

I believe that the self assessment aimed to help me identify my own areas of strength and weakness to help me create an action plan for implementing change. It helped me address specific skills, such as communication, leadership, listening and social abilities, but it also helped me focus on more tangible abilities, as in my professional skills. A self assessment's subjective nature can call its accuracy into question. I will use a self assessment as a starting point toward personal and professional growth.  Itwill expose my areas of strength and weakness.  It is the first step in my development.

I feel that it will be a great tool to communicate with the other members of my cohort as well as others involved in similar higher educational programs and fields of interest.  I like the organization options given to make my wiki easy to use and allow members viewing my wiki to easily navigate through my pages and files.  Because of these organizational options I will be able to use this not only in my education in this class, but also throughout my professional career with other administration, teachers, and even the community.  This will be a great tool for keeping up with our ever-changing education system and initiatives.  I see this as a way to streamline comments for staff development and training in a multitude of different ways – to improve the training, give positive insights to the presenter, and to further discuss the training components.  This could also be used with a Professional Learning Community by being able to discuss trends in education with peers and colleagues.

What I learned from the interview that will improve my leadership knowledge and skills in this business is you’ve got to be doing a lot of things all at once, and you’ve got to be doing them in a fairly coordinated deliberative manner. I think you’ve got to have a framework for thinking about how you’re going to put them in play, and how you’re going to get your board and your community invested in supporting those sets of action plans and key objectives that you’ve set. Whether you call it a strategic planning process, goal setting process, action planning process, you have got to have one that genuinely engages your stakeholders, and gives the people a clear focus on what that is, and keeps them focused on that through the year.

I really enjoyed preparing my intern plan.  I really got to engage myself in the process of what a superintendent does in a way.  The intern plan will give me plenty of opportunities to interact with a variety of administrators, systems throughout the district and organizations throughout the district.  I will also be able to look at the different teaching/learning styles that are taking place around the district and in the classroom.  I also believe that the intern plan will help improve my skills in research, communication in groups, intrapersonal communication and observation.  I will also improve in personalizing learning and giving it relevance and meaning.  I also believe that I will become more effective in putting learning into context to improve understanding and the retention of certain concepts.  The intern plan also provides me with plenty of networking opportunities and when it comes to education sometimes, it is not always what you know, but it is who you know.  I think it will also help me learn how to adapt to change, being that I will be involved with a lot of stakeholders in this ever-changing education environment.  This will also help me grow emotionally and help me learn from failure and success.

I really enjoyed the discussion blogs and the web conferences throughout this course.  The web conferences were great because you could finally put a face with a name and get help with questions you had that had come up through the course and I think the discussion blog really served the same purpose, but there was just more participation.

Scott's Internship Draft

Activity # ____ You may give the number corresponding to the 38 activities from the text to identify one of the activities. Make as many cells as necessary to address all 38 leadership skill areas.	TExES comp.#___ You must have activities that represent each of the 10 Superintendent competencies.	Summary of Activity - Describe the activity you plan on implementing or participating in during your internship – you may use any of the internship activities identified in the School Leader Internship, 2nd edition, pp. 19 – 68.	Resource  Person	Projected Date to be Completed
1A	2	Analyzed our school’s vision/mission statement as it related to our school’s master schedule.	Nedrow, Fraire	8/11
2C	2	Served on our school/district SBDM team as well as the Lead Content Teacher Team. (LTC)	Nedrow, Dawson	6/12
3C	2	Reviewed the ways that our board, superintendent, faculty, staff, and our HCM department use assessment data.	Nedrow, Reed, Fraire, Dawson	5/12
4C	3	I assisted and conducted a staff development session.	Nedrow, Fraire	8/11
5A	2	Review board policy/administrative regulations. Assess compliance with policy/regulations. Assess the leadership culture in the school district.	Nedrow/Mayer	9/11
6A	2	Attend a leadership meeting of our current district administrators.  I observed the superintendents behavior when it came to setting goals, getting and providing information.	Nedrow, Dawson, Mayer	10/11
7B	5	Review board policy and administrative regulations in regards to curriculum development, implementation, management and evaluation.	Nedrow, Mayer	11/11
8B	5	Assisted in the process of class scheduling at the secondary level at DHJ.	Nedrow, Dawson, Smith	8/11
9B	5	Conduct two teacher appraisals using the clinical supervision model.	Nedrow, Dawson, Mayer	1/12
10C	6	Meet with a group of similar subject-area or grade-level teachers and review the current curriculum and lesson plans. Compile the amount of traditional, behavioral, cognitive, and experiential learning objectives used.	Nedrow, Dawson, Goodner	11/11
11A	6	Review board policy on technology. Study the district/ school plan on use of technology. Review the degree of compliance between policy and the technology plan, as well as the legal aspects regarding the use of software.	Nedrow, Mayer	12/11
12C	6	Analyze district test results.  Assess the current strengths and the weaknesses in student achievement.	Nedrow, Mayer	9/11
13B	5	Plan and supervise a extra curricular or co-curricular activity.	Nedrow, Goodner	9/11
14B	7	Analyze the district staff development plan with respect to our schools vision/mission statement.	Nedrow, Dawson, Fraire	10/11
15B	10	Meet with district leader who is involved in implementing district change.	Nedrow, Dansby	9/11
16C	6	Review discipline referrals and analyze regarding grade level, special programs, race and gender.	Nedrow, Goodner	10/11
17C	10	Interview a school nurse to discuss the major requirements, concerns, and goals for the school health program.	Nedrow, Lochtrog	9/11
18E	8	Review the policy and budget for administrative technology.	Nedrow, Martin	10/11
19B	8	Meet with the district/ school attendance officer. Discuss the rules, procedures, and ramifications of attendance on law, finance, and general school district operations.	Nedrow, Suarez	9/11
20B	9	Meet with the director of maintenance and/ or head custodian to review job responsibilities and schedules of staff.	Nedrow, Grant	10/11
21A	9	Interview the director of transportation to discuss current issues and needs for transportation.	Nedrow, Daniels	12/11
22A	9	Interview the district/school food service manager to discuss the current requirements, concerns, and issues of the program.	Nedrow, Jackson	11/11
23D	7	Meet with persons responsible for personnel to discuss the role personnel takes in planning for professional development	Nedrow, Mayer	11/11
24C	8	I participated in budget planning process for our campus and department.	Nedrow, Dawson, Workman	8/11
25A	3	Interview one or more persons involved in district/ school public relations.	Nedrow, Bond	12/11
26D	3	Observe a meeting of the site-based council Assess the role of parents in the process, and provide any recommendations for increasing the effectiveness of their role.	Nedrow, Dawson	11/11
27D	3	Meet confidentially with one or more students of differing racial groups to assess their concerns and recommendations for a positive culturally diverse climate in the high school.	Nedrow	10/11
28D	3	Gather information on the resources available to the schools from community and business.	Nedrow, Dawson, Young	12/11
29A	1,4	Analyze the superintendent’s job description and evaluation instrument for correlation between the description and the instrument.	Nedrow, Dansby	10/11
30E	1,4	In a planned project that you lead, cite any relevant historical background.	Nedrow, Dawson, Fraire	1/12
31C	1,4	Meet with a representative group of students. Solicit their beliefs about and experiences with ethical practices in the school or classroom.	Nedrow	10/11
32A	1,4	When leading meetings, I will encourages others to participate, acknowledge feelings and values within the group, ease tensions when they occur, attempt to resolve conflicts, constructively, encourages consideration of varying perspectives and shares responsibilities	Nedrow	3/12
33C	1,4	Review the board training requirements and the role of the superintendent in this process.	Nedrow	10/11
34E	5	Interview professionals responsible for the Gifted and At-Risk programs.	Nedrow, Martin, Dawson, Fraire	2/12
35A	10	Choose a current issue at your district/school. Find at least two persons on either side of the issue. Meet with the chosen persons in a group or individually to ascertain the goals for each side.	Nedrow, Mayer, Dansby	9/11
36A	6	Compile a list of current issues that affect teaching and learning.	Nedrow	7/11
37C	8	Submit a brief professional development plan.	Nedrow	3/12
38A	8	Compile a list of books, publications, training manuals, and district or state publications used or recommended for the position of superintendent.	Nedrow, Dansby, Mayer	3/12