Gerald PointsSpring ISD – Principal Candidate

About Gerald Points• Here at four years old, I spent time studying Physics

and the properties of elasticity (throwing rubber balls and watching how high they go). My pre-school years were spent in the cities of southern Texas. I am truly a product of Arlington (38 years worth) and watched the suburbs grow into a city now approaching 370,000 people.

• I have worked in construction, cooked in restaurants, managed restaurants, partnered in restaurants, sold for CompUSA and Compucom. All of which have given me great insight and awe of people at their places in life.

• To the left - the reason for my passion, my wife, Kathleen, encouraged my two degrees from The University of Texas at Arlington (B.A. Psychology & Masters of Education in Teaching). With my management background and a love of children, we focused my collective skills and became an educator. Five years of teaching Science & Reading (5th & 6th Grade) prepared the way for my life's passion. (...and yes that is my own hair, then...)

Today’s Objective:

To show that my passion and qualifications exceed the criteria necessary for a principalship in the Spring Independent School District

Sharing My Vision for an Elementary School

Evaluation of Instructional Strategies

Learning and Discipline

Budget, Staff & Philosophy4

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Agenda

Sharing My Vision for an Elementary School

• Courage: to understand that there are only so many hours in a day and only through the work of many dedicated individuals – dreams can be built.

• Building a better student requires the most important intangible part – a relationship.

• The educational machine must be personalized, hand-baked, nurtured, respected, and collectively shared in its maintenance.

Servant

Leadership

Sets

Example

Sustainable

CapacitySystems in

Place

Sharing My Vision for an Elementary School

Sharing My Vision for an Elementary School

Means of Sharing:

1. Week at a Glance (WAAG)

2. Wednesday Faculty Meetings (With some Staff Development time)

3. Administrative Staffing

4. Open-door Policy

5. Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)

6. Site Based Team & Team Leaders

7. Talking the Talk & Walking the Walk

Evaluation of Instructional Strategies

• All decisions based on data• Focus on current on-campus strengths• Involvement in all Special Programs:

Bilingual/ESL, Special Education, §504, RtI• Utilizing 3-minute Walkthroughs to look for

staff development opportunities• Dissimilation of TAKS and Benchmark data• Most important criteria: Is it helping our

children get the best education for their future?

Streamline data

gathering

•Exploit technology•Maximize

time on task

Access to all stake holders

•“Be There”•Children’s

best interest

Find the RIGHT People

•Train & hire experts

•Let them do what they do

Rapport Delegation

Efficient

Systems

Evaluation of Instructional Strategies

Learning and Discipline

• Without discipline – learning will be stifled• Respect is taught & given• Every student can and will learn• Learning can only occur most effectively in

the classroom• De-escalation remains the key component in

“keeping kids in class”• Consistency, consistency, consistency• Total parent involvement

Learning and Discipline

Staff Selection and Retention:

Dig for your “GOLD”

Teach them to share the “GOLD”

Others will come wanting to find this “GOLD”

Good Ol’ Love & Discipline

where

Love = Learning

When searching for gold, you don’t seek out the dirt.

You dig until find gold! Paraphrased – Zig Zigler

Budget, Staff & Philosophy

Budget:Depending on the particular school’s make

up, all expenditures must remain within the constraints set by the district. Fiscal rules MUST be adhered to for the school’s integrity.

• Site Based decisions will have a greater impact by empowering stakeholders.

• PTO/PTA must be separate but in the interest of the children.

• Title I funds must be properly allocated and documented.

GOLD

On-going performance

Walkthroughs

PDAS

Budget, Staff & Philosophy

Staff Evaluation:

Motivating

Students

Answer “WHY?” Daily

Develop Rapport

Respect

We canCharacter

“Something

Better”

Budget, Staff & Philosophy

Budget, Staff & Philosophy

Motivating teachers:• Respect• Model Relentless Energy & Optimism• Instill and Enable Leadership• Lift Up and Praise at Every Opportunity• Food (must have)• Staff Development with a Heart for the

Community• Find things to enhance the working

environment

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