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Goal 1.0 To recruit and
select able Navajo teacher leaders and educators into a pipeline
leading to certification as a school administrator in a school on the
Navajo reservation.
Objective 1.0.1: The Navajo
School Administrators Preparation Program, through media
announcements and direct school and community recruiting efforts,
will identify and select a cohort with at least 15 eligible teachers
and others who aspire to be school administrators from a pool of
applicants as measured by project recruitment and application records.
Objective 1.0.2: Utilizing
the recruitment lists, during the first year of the project,
participants leaving the cohort will be replaced 100% of the time by
alternates to maintain nominal consistency.
Goal 2.0 To recruit, select,
and train Navajo educational leaders to serve as mentors to
prospective school administrators in schools on the Navajo reservation.
Objective 2.0.1 : The Navajo
School Administrators Preparation Program, through media
announcements and direct school and community recruiting efforts,
will identify and select 15 recognized educational leaders to be
matched as mentors to project participants from a pool of applicants
as measured by project recruitment and application records.
Objective 2.0.2: Utilizing
the recruitment lists, during the first year of the project,
participants leaving as participant mentors will be replaced 100% of
the time by alternates to maintain nominal consistency.
Goal 3.0 To prepare
prospective Navajo school administrators to assume school
administration positions in schools on the Navajo reservation.
Objective 3.0.1: All participants
in the cohort of prospective school administrators will complete the
designated number of credit hours (36) and the specific courses for
each semester and summer session as prescribed in their student study
plans, which will be documented by the end of the open registration
period of each term.
Objective 3.0.2: Upon the
conclusion of the third academic year of the project, 100% of the
prospective school administrators will be awarded Master's degrees
and will have completed Arizona administrative certification
requirements as measured by approved graduation applications and
College of Education administrative certification approvals.
Objective 3.0.3: Upon
conclusion of the third academic year of the Project, 100% of
participants in the cohort of prospective school administrators will
successfully pass the skills examinations required for professional
certification as measured by test preparation progress records and
test result notifications.
Objective 3.0.4: Upon opening of
the school year during the fourth year of the project, there will be
a 100% placement rate of the prospective school administrators in
salaried positions on administrative assignment in schools on the
Navajo reservation as measured by project placement records.
Goal 4.0 To provide
prospective Navajo school administrators with knowledge about
improving teaching and learning in schools on the Navajo reservation.
Objective 4.0.1: By
the end of the second year of the program, all participants will
complete course work and professional development workshops which
include research on how to improve teaching and learning in school settings.
Objective 4.0.2: By the end
of the third year of the program, all participants will have
completed a personalized professional development plan designed to
increase leadership skills necessary for improving teaching and
learning in Navajo schools.
Objective 4.0.3: By the end
of the third year of the program, all participants will have
completed and action research project associated with an internship
that provides knowledge related to improving teaching and learning at
a particular school site on the Navajo reservation.
Goal 5.0 To provide
prospective school administrators with Navajo specific knowledge
related to effective school administration on the Navajo reservation.
Objective 5.0.1: Within the
first year of the program, recruit Navajo content experts to instruct
or co-instruct courses specifically related to school administration
on the Navajo reservation as measured by project recruitment and
employment records.
Objective 5.0.2: By the end
of the third academic year of the program, offer 36 hours of course
work that meet Arizona state certification requirements, requirements
specified by the Navajo Education Committee and specific content
related to effective school administration on the Navajo reservation
documented by registration records at the end of each term.
Goal 6.0 To provide
prospective school administrators with authentic, field-based
experiences through which they refine skills in light of what they
learned about designs for optimal teaching and learning for Navajo
students in school on the Navajo reservation.
Objective 6.0.1: All mentors
of prospective school administrators recruited into the program will
be employed in an administrative capacity at a school on the Navajo
reservation as documented by program recruitment records.
Objective 6.0.2: Within the
first 6 months of the project, prospective Navajo school
administrators will be matched with practicing school administrators
in schools on the Navajo reservation as documented by program
placement records.
Objective 6.0.3: All
perspective school administrators will complete two (2) 135-hour
internships under the supervision of a practicing school
administrator in a school on the Navajo reservation.
Objective 6.0.4: During the
induction year of the program, all school administration participants
will be placed in an administrative capacity where they will be
mentored and coached by more advanced educational leaders, as
documents by program placement records.
Goal 7.0 Project
participants will achieve full integration into school administration
and enjoy job satisfaction after graduation and placement.
Objective 7.0.1: During the fourth
year of the project, six months after placement, participants'
perceptions pertaining to adversities in their work will be reduced
by 75% as measured by group meeting and individual counseling
follow-up session notes.
Objective 7.0.2: During the
fourth (induction) year of the project, job performance difficulties
will be reduced 10% upon each joint bimonthly observations by the
project director and supervising agent as measured by observation
notes from preceding session.
Objective 7.0.3: As a result of
exposure to information and research on school leadership provided by
the project director during the fourth year, project participants
will demonstrate increased knowledge of issues of school leadership
and Navajo teaching and learning as measured by each participants'
ability to articulate at least three issues at monthly group and
individual sessions. |
