Standard 7: Micro-political Leadership
The school executive 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 schools vision for success. The school executive will also creatively employ a awareness of staff's professional needs, issues, and interests to build cohesion and to facilitate distributed governance and shared decision making.
School Executive Micro-political Leadership: The school executive develops systems and relationships to leverage staff expertise and influence in order to influence the school's identity, culture and performance.
As an an FES administrator I participated in the the creation of the Master Schedule, which created the basic structure for our school day. Several weeks into the school year it was evident that one of our third grade teachers was not making progress with her class. In conversations with her it was discovered that she was much more comfortable teaching at the K-2 level. I was part of the team that recommended the teachers move to kindergarten and a more experienced teacher was then hired for the third grade class. The third grade class has seen steady growth with their new teacher. I also recommended the shifting of Teacher Assistants due to incompatibility with lead teachers. Tensions between TA's and Lead Teachers created an atmosphere of tension within the classroom. The change created a better learning environment for our students.
At the beginning of the school year I created a second load bus duty schedule which had teachers rotating the supervision of these students in our cafeteria after school. After a long day of teaching teachers were not very positive about supervising this group of 30 students. Two teachers made a suggestion that students remain with a grade level teacher until picked up. I suggested to teachers that we put it to a vote during our next staff meeting and the suggestion was unanimously adopted by the teachers. I asked all grade level chairs to submit a rotation schedule for supervision. The 30 students have been spread across grade levels and teacher attitudes have drastically changed for the better. Because of this change teachers are able to provide some extra remediation time to some to their struggling students and discipline issues have been reduced drastically.
Below is a screenshot of my original second load schedule and a first grade schedule made up by the grade level chair. These artifacts demonstrate that I have satisfied the requirements for this standard.
As an an FES administrator I participated in the the creation of the Master Schedule, which created the basic structure for our school day. Several weeks into the school year it was evident that one of our third grade teachers was not making progress with her class. In conversations with her it was discovered that she was much more comfortable teaching at the K-2 level. I was part of the team that recommended the teachers move to kindergarten and a more experienced teacher was then hired for the third grade class. The third grade class has seen steady growth with their new teacher. I also recommended the shifting of Teacher Assistants due to incompatibility with lead teachers. Tensions between TA's and Lead Teachers created an atmosphere of tension within the classroom. The change created a better learning environment for our students.
At the beginning of the school year I created a second load bus duty schedule which had teachers rotating the supervision of these students in our cafeteria after school. After a long day of teaching teachers were not very positive about supervising this group of 30 students. Two teachers made a suggestion that students remain with a grade level teacher until picked up. I suggested to teachers that we put it to a vote during our next staff meeting and the suggestion was unanimously adopted by the teachers. I asked all grade level chairs to submit a rotation schedule for supervision. The 30 students have been spread across grade levels and teacher attitudes have drastically changed for the better. Because of this change teachers are able to provide some extra remediation time to some to their struggling students and discipline issues have been reduced drastically.
Below is a screenshot of my original second load schedule and a first grade schedule made up by the grade level chair. These artifacts demonstrate that I have satisfied the requirements for this standard.