STANDARD SEVEN: Micro-political Leadership
This standard of micro-political leadership evaluates a leaders ability to form relationships with staff members. Leaders are expected to be visible, encouraging and maintain a balance of leveraging staff expertise.
7A: School executive micro-political leadership
In order to understand the strengths of our individual staff members at Douglas Elementary school I created a human capitol table. Part of being a micro-political leader is knowing staff members and forming relationships. As a staff member new to the building, it took a while to gather knowledge and information to form that base of relationships with some staff. While creating a table of knowledge may seem like a dispassionate method, it helps to store all the knowledge in one place to be easily accessed before having a conversation with a teacher. It is helpful to have the information written down. Due to privacy restrictions this information will be made available upon request.
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As part of my principal residency I was asked to document how my time each day was spent. The results are linked here to show the diverse experiences I had access to throughout the year. As a micro-political leader, it is important to ensure you are seen throughout the building, helping with many different things. Also to be an effective principal, you must be sure you address all aspects of leadership and documenting the time in this way can show trends of areas you've neglected. As a building leader, if your assistant principal and yourself would collate a version of this data, it would give a good outlook on what parts of the building or what tasks are being neglected and at what times.
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The images to the right contains a slideshow of affirmations from a variety of different staff members: a core teacher, instructional assistant and a specialist. I have included these affirmations as artifacts to represent the work I've done with different groups of stakeholders throughout our building and the relationships that I've formed with many individuals in this rewarding career.
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