Providing Instructional Leadership 

Alberta’s Leadership Quality Standard outlines that "A leader ensures that every student has access to quality teaching and optimum learning experiences."
What others have to say:
  • "Vicky has an instructional style that is inclusive for all students; she effectively differentiates instruction and assessment in order to ensure growth and success for all. It is evident her students are comfortable and happy in their classroom and that Vicky has a very positive rapport with them. Even the most challenging students find themselves cared for and accommodated emotionally and academically with Vicky."
  • "Vicky, thank you for sharing resources, the Building Readers' Program and helping me with programming and placing students."
  • "We appreciate all that you do for the students and staff. Your vast expertise in the technology area, the reading programs and the special education field are such an important asset to our school. Your warm spirit and bubbly personality are second to none."
  • ... Vicky helps staff and parents understand the children and how to help them...
  • "Vicky is approachable and capable of seeing the different ways in which children learn. Her ability to give pointers on how to teach them is most appreciated and useful with such a wide variety of learning styles in the school system today."
  • "Thank you so much for providing your technical and moral support leading up to and during my presentation. You made a big difference!"
John Maxwell
Leading our Students to Be Leaders is also a passion of mine. Here at IREC we work together as a team to promote leadership in all, including the students. The students MC our assemblies, they are the ones to wear the Mascot costume and they help with the morning announcements by announcing the Snack Attack each day. Also, when we have visitors to the school we have student greeters be their guides and welcome them to the building. #letthemtry

I continue to develop as an instructional leader by:

  • being a life long learner and passionate about sharing with others
  • conducting formal and informal classroom walk-throughs - It is important to me to start each day off checking in with staff to get a pulse on the school and on how each one of my staff are doing
  • working and learning with my various learning teams over the years. I love to have time to collaborate and reflect with like minded individuals to grow and help others grow. 
  • committing to meet with our Leadership Team once every week. This meeting is important to us as a team and our abilities to support the children in our school. Therefore we schedule it into our week once every week for about 1 hour. This allows our team to get caught up on the comings and goings of our students and their needs. It also gives time for us 
  • leading a variety of PD sessions on literacy, inclusion, technology including FreshGrade - a few of my presentations are under my presentation tab. 
  • working as part of our intervention team to help support teachers with strategies to help students grow and learn -  Every six weeks we get an opportunity to meet with each grade group for a Collaborative Response Model meeting. These meetings allow us to have celebrations as well as discuss students needs and how we can best support them. We can look at how the current interventions are working and then we can make adjustments to the goals and strategies if needed or collaborate on new strategies if the current ones are not supporting progress. 
  • working with our staff in SIT Teams to come up with a comprehensive plan for students in need. When programming for students we want to support the whole child, as the child needs to be nurtured, loved and safe before they can learn. This team allows us to bring outside services, internal services, the teacher and the Admin team to the table to develop a plan for the whole child. 
  • continuing to grow my own teaching practice. I believe and practice that it is important for me to stay on top of new research and best practices in order for me to assist my colleagues with their learning growth. I continually choose to grow as a learner so that I can help others grow in their own practice. I also love to help others experience the role of leading learning amoungst colleagues. Teaching your peers can be challenging and nerve racking but becomes much more comfortable when you can start in this practice with a co-presenter. I have had many opportunities to ask other great teachers to share their knowledge at the school level and at many conferences. By being their partner I am able to help encourage them, re leave some anxiety and build up their confidence in themselves and their knowledge. We often think we have nothing new to share with other, however, just because it is one teachers everyday reality and understanding it can and most often is new learning to others.