Principal’s Certification Program
Washington Standard 5 –Knowledge and Skills Quarterly Assessment
Intern:______Mentor: ______Date: ______
Please read each of the following indicators carefully. Then use the following scale that best indicates the extent of the intern’s performance during their internship:
1 = Little extent;2 = Some extent;3 = Sufficient extent and 4 = Exemplary extent
Standard 5.1: Visionary Leadership
A school or program administrator is an educational leader who has the knowledge, skills, and cultural competence to improve learning and achievement to ensure the success of each students by leading the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by school/program and community stakeholders.
Functions / Extent of Performance1 2 3 4 / Evidence/Comments
Collaboratively develop and implement a shared vision and mission.
Collect and use data to identify goals, assess organizational effectiveness, and promote organizational learning
Create and implement plans to achieve goals
Promote continuous and sustainable improvement
Monitor and evaluate progress and revise plans
Demonstrate and reflect an understanding of the unique characteristics and cultural richness of the diverse ethnicities represented in the student
Standard 5.2: Instructional Improvement
A school or program administrator is an educational leader who has the knowledge, skills, and cultural competence to improve learning and achievement to ensure the success of each student by leading through advocating, nurturing, and sustaining district/school/program cultures and coherent instructional programs that are conducive to students learning and staff professional growth.
Functions / Extent of Performance1 2 3 4 / Evidence/Comments
Nurture and sustain a culture of collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations
Create a comprehensive, rigorous, and coherent curricular program
Create a personalized and motivating learning environment for students
Supervise instruction
Develop assessment and accountability systems to monitor student progress
Develop the instructional and leadership capacity of staff
Maximize time spent on quality instruction
Promote the use of the most effective and appropriate technologies to support teaching and learning
Assure that the content and pedagogy used in the classroom are conducive to the success of each of the unique cultures in that classroom
Provide balanced views that do not exaggerate either similarities or differences that exist among people of different groups or within same group
Standard 5.3: Effective Management
A school or program administrator is an educational leader who has the knowledge, skills, and cultural competence to improve learning and achievement to ensure the success of each student by ensuring management of the organization, operations, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment.
Functions / Extent of Performance1 2 3 4 / Evidence/Comments
Monitor and evaluate the management and operational systems
Obtain, allocate, align, and efficiently utilize human, fiscal, and technological resources
Promote and protect the welfare and safety of students and staff
Develop the capacity for distributed leadership
Ensure teacher and organizational time is focused to support quality instruction and student learning
Provide opportunities for students to beheard in decisions that affect them
Standard 5.4: Inclusive Practice
A school or program administrator is an educational leader who has the knowledge, skills, and cultural competence to improve learning and achievement to ensure the success of each student by collaborating with families and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources.
Functions / Extent of Performance1 2 3 4 / Evidence/Comments
Collect and analyze data and information pertinent to the educational environment
Promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the community’s diverse cultural, social, and intellectual resources
Build and sustain positive relationships with families and caregivers
Build and sustain productive relationships with community partners
Participate and lead discussion about the need for schools to have a system in place that recognizes and accepts the Native students as members of Native sovereign nations
Support equitable policies for identifying, accepting, and supporting students from non-dominant cultural groups in all programs, including advanced placement and gifted programs
Standard 5.5: Ethical Leadership
A school or program administrator is an educational leader who has the knowledge, skills, and cultural competence to improve learning and achievement to ensure the success of each student by acting with integrity fairness, and in an ethical manner.
Functions / Extent of Performance1 2 3 4 / Evidence/Comments
Ensure a system of accountability for every student’s academic and social success
Model principles of self-awareness, reflective practice, transparency, and ethical behavior
Safeguard the values of democracy, equity, and diversity
Consider and evaluate the potential moral and legal consequences of decision-making
Promote social justice and ensure that individual student needs inform all aspects of schooling
Be aware of the effects of power and privilege and the need for social advocacy and social action to better empower diverse students and communities
Standard 5.6: Socio-Political Context
A school or program administrator is an educational leader who has the knowledge, skills, and cultural competence to improve learning and achievement to ensure the success of each student by understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context.
Functions / Extent of Performance1 2 3 4 / Evidence/Comments
Advocate for children, families, and caregivers
Act to influence local, district, state, and national decisions affecting student learning
Assess, analyze, and anticipate emerging trends and initiatives in order to adapt leadership strategies
Understand the value of place based education related to students attendance and practice in traditional ceremonies that have been identified as supporting students’ spiritual, mental, physical and emotional development
Understand the significance of the role of cultural identity in providing a strong foundation for all social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual development and demonstrate the ability to build on that understanding in their teaching