Guidance for Addressing NELP Standards
NELP Standard Component 2.1 Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to reflect on, communicate about, cultivate, and model professional dispositions and norms (i.e., fairness, integrity, transparency, trust, digital citizenship, collaboration, perseverance, reflection, lifelong learning) that support the educational success and well-being of each student and adult.
Based on knowledge of your area of the law, how would a school administrator act with integrity and fairness in supporting school policies and staff practices that ensure every students’ academic and social success? Think about the use of multiple sources of data when assessing student academic progress and considering all sides in making decisions that affect students’ social progress.
Based on knowledge of your area of the law, how would a building administrator create an infrastructure (policies and procedures) that helps to monitor and ensure equitable (fair and impartial) practices? Think about evaluating existing policies or identifying and formulating needed new policies to ensure that all in the school, particularly students, are treated fairing and impartially.
Based on knowledge of your area of the law, how would a building administrator create policy and implement those policies into practice that would help ensure appropriate digital citizenship?
NELP Standard Component 2.2 Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to evaluate, communicate about, and advocate for ethical and legal decisions.
Based on knowledge of your area of the law, formulate sound school strategies to address . Describe how your area of the law would inform the building administrator’s decision-making process.
Based on knowledge of your area of the law, evaluate school strategies to prevent difficulties related to moral and legal issues. Think about the potential difficulties inherent in making decisions in a school. How would knowledge of your area of the law help a building administrator to navigate those difficulties?
Based on knowledge of your area of the law, analyze leadership decisions in terms of established ethical practices. Think about knowledge of your area of the law would affect the identification and implementation of appropriate values to ensure decisions made are consistent with those values.
Based on knowledge of your area of the law, develop appropriate communication skills to advocate for democracy, equity, and diversity. Based on your area of the law, how and what you would need to communicate to stakeholders, so they know their rights are protected?
NELP Standard Component 2.3 Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to model ethical behavior in their personal conduct and relationships and to cultivate ethical behavior in others.
Based on knowledge of your area of the law, how would a building administrator formulate a personal leadership platform grounded in ethical standards and practices? A leadership platform is a set of values that reflect your beliefs as a leader. For a building administrator, this platform drives the culture of a school.
Based on knowledge of your area of the law, how would you develop the resiliency to uphold core values and persist in the face of adversity? Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. How does your area of the law help a building administrator to develop resilience in such a demanding job?
Based on knowledge of your area of the law, what would you do to ensure your person conduct is above reproach and that your relationships with faculty, staff, students and external stakeholders always remains professional?
Component 6.3 Program completers understand and demonstrate the capacity to reflectively evaluate, communicate about, and implement laws, rights, policies, and regulations to promote student and adult success and well-being.
Based on knowledge of your area of the law, develop, implement, and evaluate school policies and procedures that support democratic values, equity, and diversity issues. Think about whether your school’s policies protect and support the rights of all stakeholders. Are students, faculty, staff and external stakeholders supported and protected across all demographic descriptors?
Based on knowledge of your area of the law, how would a building administrator formulate a school-level leadership platform grounded in ethical standards and practices? A leadership platform is a set of values that reflect your beliefs as a leader. For a building administrator, this platform drives the culture of a school.
