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Faith Short
Faith Short is the principal at East Pointe Elementary. With 25 years of experience in education, she is fiercely passionate about the work of collaborative teams as a vehicle to ensure high levels of learning for every student. She specializes in helping leaders and teachers implement the PLC process to impact teaching and learning.
Faith Short
Faith Short is the principal at East Pointe Elementary. With 25 years of experience in education, she is fiercely passionate about the work of collaborative teams as a vehicle to ensure high levels of learning for every student. She specializes in helping leaders and teachers implement the PLC process to impact teaching and learning.
Faith has served as a teacher, mentor, instructional coach, math content specialist, parent facilitator, and administrator. These experiences have equipped her with the expertise to build and coach collaborative teams, create effective assessments to inform instructional practice, utilize results to target student-specific skill gaps, and effectively respond when students do not learn. As a presenter, Faith specializes in PLCs, the work of collaborative teams, and response to intervention.
During her time as an administrator at East Pointe Elementary, the school was selected by the Arkansas Department of Education to participate in its PLC at Work® project and later earned the distinction of being named a Model PLC by Solution Tree. East Pointe was also designated a National Leader in Me Lighthouse School by Franklin Covey for work centered around the development of student leadership and agency. Faith serves as a member of Arkansas’ state guiding coalition focused on developing PLCs throughout the state.
Faith earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education with middle-level endorsements from Arkansas Tech University and a master’s degree in educational leadership from Arkansas State University.
PLC at Work®
PLC at Work® experts have proven success in leading the PLC at Work process in a school or district. Work with them to implement a focus on learning, build a collaborative culture, and create a results orientation that leads to sustained, substantive school improvement.
Presentations by Faith Short
- The Game Changer: Utilizing Question 3 to Ensure High Levels of Learning for All in a Professional Learning Community
- Clarifying and Monitoring Student Learning: Unit Planning with Intentionality
- Assessments: Using Internal Assessment to Impact External Assessment
- Purposes and Processes of Collaborative Teams in a Professional Learning Community
- Breaking the Cycle of “PLC Lite” Reaching EVERY Child in a Professional Learning Community
- Transforming School Culture as a Professional Learning Community at Work
