Standard D: Resource Management
Tennessee Instructional Leadership Standard (TILS) D
Standard D, Resource Management, encompasses multiple indicators including Community Resources, Diversity, Employee & Fiscal Management. This section of my portfolio includes several artifacts demonstrating some of my experience with several of these indicators.
Community Resources
Bringing the Community In
I am, and have been, deeply involved in community resource acquistion at every school in which I have been employed. This has included everything from getting food donated for our sustenance bags sent home to our impoverished students during COVID to getting loans of live greenery to make our graduation celebrations pop. Most recently my efforts have been centered on getting parents into the school by providing fun activities for them to participate in with their children at the school. We have had game nights, movie nights, and welcoming bashes with so many more planned. For all of these I have been able to bring community partners in with donations and time volunteered in service. For the pictured event the Food Trucks, DJ, and Bouncy House vendor all donated their products for free (or with an extremely discounted rate) and a local fraternity and church donated labor to help set up, serve food, and provide school supplies.
Thursday, Aug 11 (3).pdfDiversity
Everyone Contributes
Every individual has something unique to bring to the conversation based on their background, education, culture, and experience. In this picture you see our entire faculty and staff. Every person in this image is on at least one committee for the school and every individual in this picture has input in the outcomes our school experiences. We have experience levels ranging from 35 years all the way down to four months and education from bachelors in a non-education field to doctors of education. We span myriad religions, ethnicities, and national origins and we all work together to support our students' learning.
Employee & Fiscal Management
Budgeting for Beautification
Our school has not had a facelift in several years. One of the focuses for the new administration was to budget for this process including frest paint, cultural pieces (like crests for our school's villiage system), and public data walls on actual bulletin boards (rather than taping things to the walls). I contributed to this part of our School Improvement Plan by designing the crests and ensuring that they were printed and installed under budget. I was able to come in $300 under budget allowing that money to be moved towards the purchase of IXL for our interventionists. I have also worked towards the development and implementation of an inventory systems for textbooks and supplies preventing the need to constantly repurchase lost materials.
District Portraiture.pdfA County- Level View
During one of our courses, we were tasked with an exploration of the budgeting process for a district. My group and I chose Wilson County. Through interviews, analysis of budgeting documents, board meetings, County Commission Meetings, and exploration of the interaction between the County Commission and the School board we were able to gain meaningful insight to the processes of bugeting at different levels.
People Placement Matters
In working on staffing and budgeting concerns during the school budgeting meetings and SIP efforts, we were able to address a significant teacher concern of lacking time by rearranging our interventionist schedule to allow for one individual's scheduled to take over the progress monitoring and data collection for the school. We needed to work very diligently to get the funding arranged and the individual trained, but it was a huge success, as we discovered through our panorama surveys and faculty and staff attendance and culture data.
