District leadership and Sunny Heights Elementary School staff identified strengths and weakness of existing practices in their examination (Self-Assessment) of practices commonly aligned to high-performing, high-need urban schools. Self-Assessment findings are reported in Table 11. These leadership findings also reflect those identified during year-long performance evaluations conducted by the Assistant to the Superintendent for Elementary Education, resulting in the district to replace the Sunny Heights principal superintendent’s decision at the end of the 2014-15 school year. The newly-appointed principal, Stephen Foster, brings a rich history of highly-successful leadership and will build a culture of collaboration, high expectations for teaching and learning, and a sense of urgency for significantly-increasing student achievement at Sunny Heights. For nearly a decade, Foster served as the principal of Lakeside Elementary School, where under his leadership the Warren’s school was selected by the Department of Education as a an National Blue Ribbon School, Indiana Distinguished Title I School, and a When asked by Warren to serve as the leader of the (then) new High-Performing Title I School. Township’s superintendent
District leadership and Sunny Heights Elementary School staff identified strengths and weakness of existing practices in their examination (Self-Assessment) of practices commonly aligned to high-performing, high-need urban schools. Self-Assessment findings are reported in Table 11. These leadership findings also reflect those identified during year-long performance evaluations conducted by the Assistant to the Superintendent for Elementary Education, resulting in the district superintendent’s decision to replace the Sunny Heights principal at the end of the 2014-15 school year. The newly-appointed principal, Stephen Foster, brings a rich history of highly-successful leadership and will build a culture of collaboration, high expectations for teaching and learning, and a sense of urgency for significantly-increasing student achievement at Sunny Heights. For nearly a decade, Foster served as the principal of Warren’s Lakeside Elementary School, where under his leadership the school was selected by the Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School, an Indiana Distinguished Title I School, and a High-Performing Title I School. When asked by Warren Township’s superintendent to serve as the leader of the (then) new
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