Essential characteristics of the principal’s role have been identified by groups such as the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium, and the Educational Leadership Constituent Council. Standards from both these organizations require that a principal have a vision of learning, advocate for students, collaborate with teachers and the community, provide a safe environment, act with integrity, and understand the social and political confines in which we live. As noted by Sergiovanni in The Principalship, “For Parochial school principals, the religious dimension must be added to any array of roles and responsibilities that define the principalship.” (2015, p. 43)
The case study, The Family Learning Center Charter School: Leadership and Accountability at a Crossroads by James R. Detert and Natalie R. Detert (2001), brought to light many issues faced with opening a charter school. The goal of a charter school is to create an innovated learning experience in which students choose to attend. As with opening any new school, Jennings was faced with many challenges, the majority of which fell into one of three categories: finance, leadership, and instruction. According to Glanz (2006), in Operational Leadership, mechanisms need to be established to ensure monies are allocated for their intended purposes (p. 52).
The second domain in the Florida Principals Leadership Standards is composed of three different standards. The first of these is Instructional Plan Implementation and is about how an effective leader must collaborate to develop and implement an effective instructional framework that aligns with the required standards and meets his/her students’ needs (“The Florida Principal,” n.d.). Due to the variety in options that are available to align instruction to a pupil, given that the instruction will be adjusted to his/her needs, I feel that the situational leadership approach will be able to be implemented in this situation to create better results as “different situations demand different kinds of leadership (Northouse, P., 2016). The different leadership styles that make up the Situational approach can be tied to this standard by connecting the necessary leadership style with the supportive and directive behaviors in the task that is performed. As an instructor, I will spend time in the S1 category of the Situational Leadership Model as I make use of a “common language of instruction”, spend time between the S1 and S2 categories by “communicate the relationships among academic standards” and by being engaged “in data analysis for instructional planning and improvement”.
Harpo Allen Middle School Scenario Reflection 1. Describe some approaches that could be used to establish a culture of high expectations for students and staff performances at Harpo Allen Middle School. • First, as a new principal, you will need to acquire an understanding of and appreciation for the culture of the school, then, use your leadership style (such as being a team leader) in order to gain the trust and respect of the staff and students. • Conduct a school climate survey of faculty, parents, and students to gauge how much of the learning process I taking place and what measures need to be incorporated insure that high quality teaching/learning is taking place for the entire school. • Create PLCs to promote high expectations among
Role of Instructional Leader According to Mountain View Middle School’s principal, Wes Jensen, the role of the instructional leader, in a nutshell, is to create a positive learning environment that students, teachers, and community members want to be a part of and can be successful in (W. Jensen, personal communication, May 22, 2018). He strives to create this environment by building and sustaining an educational vision for MVMS, having participative leadership, using data to make instructional decisions, and building a professional community through PLCs. In fact, at MVMS, PLCs have been instrumental in creating the infrastructure needed to generate collaborative activity and a collective responsibility among staff members. As an instructional
As a leader, he/she should know how to communicate with the decision makers as well as with the families of the students, and his/her faculty and staff. With the growing diversity of students within our school and community, as an educational leader I will need to be able to understand the relationship between social justice, school culture, and the community. I will determine what opportunities are available within our community, discuss with the stakeholders our beliefs, perceptions, and attitudes that will shape and influence the way our school will be run. I will have to learn how to recognize the differences of
2). There has been a shift in what effective leadership looks like over the years. The role of a principal has transitioned from a hierarchical system, in which the principal is the educational expert, to a shared instructional leadership role that encourages collaboration between the administration and teachers as well as between teachers and their colleagues (Marks & Printy, 2003). “Shared instructional leadership involves the active collaboration of principal and teachers on curriculum, instruction, and assessment,” (Marks & Printy, 2003, p. 371). With this approach, the responsibility for curriculum development as well as professional development and supervision of classroom instruction is shared, fundamentally changing structure and culture within the school.
This makes it the job of the teacher and assistant of each class to make sure that the children
Research has revealed the need for principals to be instructional leaders and have more than a general command of literacy knowledge. With the increased accountability for school principals, the emphasis on maintaining high student achievement for all learners and the decline of reading scores in Georgia, (“http://nationalreadingpanel.org/Publications/summary.htm,” 2015) an even sharper focus is placed on teaching and learning. Although the teacher is responsible for delivery of instruction, the principal’s role is to lead that instruction and ensure that a high quality curriculum is delivered to all students. In order for instructional leadership to be most effective, teachers and principals must work together.
The Goals 2000: Educate America Act was a vital step to reform American education. The overall intent was to aid the nation move toward a system that was based on high standards that all students could meet —a system that will provide both equity and excellence for all of the pupils in this country. The police targeted state-grade support for reform in curriculum and assessment standards. By emphasizing standards-based reform and focused on content and performance standards, along with accountability for improvement, assessment, student performance, accountability, teacher preparation, community and parental involvement, and coordinated changes, to make a few (H. R. 10804 Goals, n.d.). The other object of this policy was to establish a
Members participated on improving the school by supporting the staff and students, and also planning, organizing, and executing school
It describes the issue of teachers not understanding their students and labeling them as a result of cultural mismatching. The article visits the idea of the unfamiliarity of white teachers and how this impacts their assessment of their students stating, “There is some indication that teachers do make differential judgments about achievement and behavior based on racially conditioned characteristics (p.87)”. The teachers in Anyon’s study assumed the outcome of these students because of their urban settings, behavioral problems, and lack of resources. The ability to identify with your students, or making the attempt to understand your students assists with knowing how to motivate and teach them.
I asked the teacher about the principal leadership skills, they told me that he visited classrooms constantly and was the first person student saw in the morning. The teacher told me that he was a help in developing his curriculum because the principal was an English teacher previously. His type of experience was helpful to his staff because he was once like
Stem Cell treatment and research is a topic, which is constantly developing within the world of science. It is believed that stem cell treatment has no limit and it can treat any disease if the correct research is put into it. One disease that is successful when treated with stem cell therapy, is multiple myeloma. Multiple Myeloma is a cancer that attacks the bone in your body, most likely the bone marrow. But there are issues that arise as to whether or not stem cell therapy is a safe treatment, and what impact it has on the human body after the cancer has disappeared.
Teachers are the life-blood of school districts across the United States. They are masters of their specific grade-level content and work tirelessly to manage the learning and well-being of their students. Teachers are the academic leaders of the learning environment within their classrooms and collaborate with their students throughout the year in order to facilitate learning, and foster creativity and problem solving. However, over the last thirty years, teacher leadership has taken on a whole new meaning.
