Micro-Political Leadership
"School executives will build systems and relationships that utilize the staff’s diversity, encourage constructive ideological conflict in order to leverage staff expertise, power and influence in order to realize the school’s vision for success. The executive will also creatively employ an awareness of staff’s professional needs, issues, and interests to build cohesion and to facilitate distributed governance and shared decision-making. "
Standard 7A describes how developing systems and relationships to leverage staff expertise and influence can affect the school’s
identity, culture, and performance
identity, culture, and performance
- I worked with the our school’s reading specialist to build relationships within the school and local community to utilize their skills to read aloud Dr. Suess books for Read Across America Day. The list of guest readers included school staff, community volunteers, faith based volunteers, the Edgecombe County Sherrif and parents.
- Utilizing staff relationships when collaborating with the School Improvement Team to plan the Black History Program. The staff decided to add a guest speaker componet to the program to promote our school's vision for success. The staff members were also reponsible for selcting a song and designing their grade levels performance. The utilization of staff expertise led to an incredible program.
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- This year the Northside of our district implemented Opportunity Culture. The administrative teams from all three schools facilitated a values assessment at their schools. From that assessment, five core values were established to symbolize the Northside. I commissioned the art teacher to utilize his skills and our scholars to collaborate to create this mural in order increase the visibility of our schools values for all stakeholders. I often use this mural as a talking point to discuss with students the meaning of each value and celebrate how I see them incorporating these values into their day.