Superintendent Internship: Final Review Guidelines and Rubric

Directions: For the Final Review, interns mustsubmit reflective narratives forALL eight internship areas. The rubric below will be used by the internship advising professor to evaluate your narratives.

Guidelines:

  1. You must provide a two-four page reflective narratives outliningwhere you are thus far in yourinternship. Your narratives should focus on the eight internship areas (i.e., planning, policy development, resource allocation, program evaluation, community relations, staff relations, governance relations, and action research).
  2. Each reflective narrative should:
  3. how you addressed the relevant area (ELCC 7.1);
  4. specify what district project(s)/activities you have worked on or will be working on that addresses the relevant area (ELCC 7.4); and
  5. identify and discussthe ELCC Standards (see Program Standards page of the portfolio) youtargeted for each area. (ELCC 7.3)

NOTE: You should revise your mid-point narratives based on a thru c and then reattach them in your portfolio under the Internship: Final Review page.

  1. Attach and submit your narrativesandall eight final internship time logs(located at to your internship advising professor through your portfolio in LiveText. Then provide a copy of your narratives to your internship cooperating superintendent (ELCC 7.4, 7.6).
  2. Schedule a final review meeting with your internship advising professor and cooperating superintendent to discuss your narratives and internship. (ELCC 7.5)
  3. Reminder: Please remind your cooperating superintendent to complete theEDL Doctoral Program Competency Appraisal(located at (ELCC 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4., 7.5, 7.6)

Eight Internship Areas / ELCC Standards / Exemplary (3) / Acceptable (2) / Unacceptable (1)
Planning: Developing goals, preparing forecasts and projects, conducting needs assessments, studying demographics, looking at long-range forecasting for a school or district. / Standard 1 / Candidate provides a comprehensive and detailed narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to develop, articulate, and/or implement the district’s vision, mission, and/or goals. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with the planning area contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides a narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to develop, articulate, and/or implement the district’s vision, mission, and/or goals. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with the planning area contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides an inadequate narrative of growth and development in his knowledge and ability to develop, articulate, and/or implement the district’s vision, mission, and/or goals. Candidate fails to reflect on how the project(s)/activities associated with the planning area contributed to his growth and development.
Policy Development: Developing policy for new initiatives, developing procedures, leading ad hoc committees. / Standard 4 / Candidate provides a comprehensive and detailed narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to create, influence, lead, and/or develop district policy or procedures for new initiatives. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with the policy development area contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides a narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to create, influence, lead, and/or develop district policy or procedures for new initiatives. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with the policy development area contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides an inadequate narrative of growth and development in his knowledge and ability to create, influence, lead, and/or develop district policy or procedures for new initiatives. Candidate fails to reflect on how the project(s)/activities associated with the policy development area contributed to his growth and development.
Resource Allocation: Data-driven decision-making, priority development, proposal design and analysis, budget preparation and analysis, collective bargaining, briefings to parents or board members or the community about why certain decisions are desirable or not. / Standard 3 / Candidate provides a comprehensive and detailed narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to allocate or re-allocate budget funding to improve the school district’s effectiveness in achieving its vision, mission, and/or goals. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with resource allocation contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides a narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to allocate or re-allocate budget funding to improve the school district’s effectiveness in achieving its vision, mission, and/or goals. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with resource allocation contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides an inadequate narrative of growth and development in his knowledge and ability to allocate or re-allocate budget funding to improve the school district’s effectiveness in achieving its vision, mission, and/or goals. Candidate fails to reflect on how the project(s)/activities associated with the resource allocation area contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate has not addressed this area in the internship at this moment.
Program Evaluation: Performance appraisals, supervision of teaching, coaching of other teachers, curriculum assessments, analysis of test data, and auditing the curriculum all fit in this category. / Standard 2 / Candidate provides a comprehensive and detailed narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to appraise curriculum, programs, or professional performance to address educational, professional, and community needs and priorities for action planning. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with program evaluation contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides a narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to appraise curriculum, programs, or professional performance to address educational, professional, and community needs and priorities for action planning. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with program evaluation contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides an inadequate narrative of growth and development in his knowledge and ability to appraise curriculum, programs, or professional performance to address educational, professional, and community needs and priorities for action planning. Candidate fails to reflect on how the project(s)/activities associated with the program evaluation area contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate has not addressed this area in the internship at this moment.
Community Relations: Leading advisory boards, representing the district in various capacities, working toward referenda goals, serving on governmental committees, engaging local communities in initiatives. / Standards 4 and 6 / Candidate provides a comprehensive and detailed narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to engage the community in advisory roles, new initiatives, and community or business partnerships to assist the district in achieving its vision, mission, and/or goals. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with community relations contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides a narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to engage the community in advisory roles, new initiatives, and community or business partnerships to assist the district in achieving its vision, mission, and/or goals. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with community relations contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides an inadequate narrative of growth and development in his knowledge and ability to engage the community in advisory roles, new initiatives, and community or business partnerships to assist the district in achieving its vision, mission, and/or goals. Candidate fails to reflect on how the project(s)/activities associated with the community relations area contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate has not addressed this area in the internship at this moment.
Staff Relations: Administering contracts, developing personnel policy, conducting climate studies, working on internal communications. / Standard 3 / Candidate provides a comprehensive and detailed narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to build capacity for shared decision-making within the district through improved systems for internal communications, professional development, and/or human resource management. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with staff relations contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides a narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to build capacity for shared decision-making within the district through improved systems for internal communications, professional development, and/or human resource management. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with staff relations contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides an inadequate narrative of growth and development in his knowledge and ability to build capacity for shared decision-making within the district through improved systems for internal communications, professional development, and/or human resource management. Candidate fails to reflect on how the project(s)/activities associated with the staff relations area contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate has not addressed this area in the internship at this moment.
Governance Relations: Board meeting presentations, management of board members and special interest groups, handling controversial issues. / Standards 4 and 6 / Candidate provides a comprehensive and detailed narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to communicate with and/or manage school board members, special interest groups, and to assist with controversial issues. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with governance relations contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides a narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to communicate with and/or manage school board members, special interest groups, and to assist with controversial issues. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with governance relations contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate provides an inadequate narrative of growth and development in his knowledge and ability to communicate with and/or manage school board members, special interest groups, and to assist with controversial issues. Candidate fails to reflect on how the project(s)/activities associated with the governance relations area contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate has not addressed this area in the internship at this moment.
Action Research: Evaluation, data-driven decision-making, use of research in programming. / Standard 2 / Candidate provides a comprehensive and detailed narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to conduct research within his school district in order to obtain and assess data related to school improvement and decision-making. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with action research contributed to her growth and development. / Candidate provides a narrative that highlights growth and development in his knowledge and ability to conduct research within his school district in order to obtain and assess data related to school improvement and decision-making. Candidate’s narrative includes reflections on how the project(s)/activities associated with action research contributed to her growth and development. / Candidate provides an inadequate narrative of growth and development in his knowledge and ability to conduct research within his school district in order to obtain and assess data related to school improvement and decision-making. Candidate fails to reflect on how the project(s)/activities associated with the action researcharea contributed to his growth and development. / Candidate has not addressed this area in the internship at this moment.
Writing/Grammar / Writing and grammar both accurate and compelling; strong evidence of editing and proofreading / Writing and grammar accurate; evidence of proofreading and editing / Inconsistent writing and grammar or no evidence of proofreading