Education Commission of the States (ECS) http://www.ecs.org
This web site is a clearinghouse for information on topics specific to education. The slogan of this organization is “Helping state leaders shape education policy”. This is a lofty claim, but the site does provide numerous resource options to support or challenge beliefs on education issues. Topics range from Accountability to Unions/Collective Bargaining. They cover early education to adult education. The site is underwritten by Pearson Education and all sources are cited.
Week 2 Blog: Movie: Columbia Pictures, To Sir, With Love, Sidney Poitier (1966) I used this movie for an assignment in my curriculum studies course. It is the story of an out of work engineer who is forced to take a teaching job to make ends meet. He is assigned to a “tough” high school in an industrial London town. When his “traditional” methods of teaching yield no results (only escalated “rude” behavior), he takes a series of steps to transform his classroom. His actions mirror what I feel are some of the essential responsibilities of an effective leader, whether in the classroom or as a school administrator. 1) Mr. Thackeray (the teacher), first recognizes that his audience is not one to be reached by “traditional” means. As teachers and administrators we can become so entrenched in our “traditional” way of doing things that we are unable to recognize when our methods are no longer effective. 2) Thackeray begins by establishing a protocol for classroom etiquette. Administrators must also establish protocols and be willing to confront those who do not adhere to the established codes of behavior. (This also brings to mind the Professional Learning Community model where teachers must begin the process of teaming by first establishing their meeting protocols.) 3) By changing his methods, Thackeray switches the focus in the classroom from teaching to learning. He is no longer concerned only with what he is teaching, but with what the students are actually learning. An effective school leader must be in continual dialogue with his/her staff in order to understand what they already know and what they need to learn. This requires an individual who is willing to take the time to truly listen to others. Only then can we eliminate inefficient methods and redundancy and get to the heart of what the members of the organization need to know in order to be efficient and effective at their jobs. 4) A major turning point in the movie comes when Mr. Thackeray reveals some of his past experiences with his students. In an exchange between Thackeray and his students they learn for the first time that despite his current refined demeanor and professional attire he actually comes from a background very similar to theirs. By revealing a part of who he is to them the students begin to connect with him and see him as a “real” person. As a result the students begin to actually listen to what he has to say. I feel this is an important quality for any school leader. Instead of being the elusive leader we must be willing to reveal some of our flaws so others will see us as accessible and approachable. My conclusions: It is not required to emulate Mark Thackeray’s exact techniques, but to be focused on the message he imparts. To be effective teachers/leaders we must strive to make the curriculum meaningful to our students. We must know our audience and seek to draw upon their prior experiences and their current situations to create a curriculum that will actually be learned, not just taught. Create an atmosphere of mutual respect. Put protocols in place so everyone understands the expectations. Never demean others, either overtly or covertly. Allow for choice as often as possible (PLC’s). Employ an inquiry based learning style. Create an atmosphere where inquiry is the norm, where the students/teachers do most of the talking, not you. Be available to your students/teachers. Let them know who you are and what is important to you. Share your ideas, interests, and thinking process with them as often as possible. If you like classic movies and have the time I recommend watching To Sir, With Love. You may get something entirely different out of the experience!
www.afhe.org/resources/articles/gatto_teacher_of_year_speech_1990.pdf How this does NOT relates to our course and/or leadership, diversity, equity, or community? WOW! This reads and is crafted with such important to values long forgotten in education today. The author is inside my head. Key points: “Our school crisis is a reflection of this greater social crisis. We seem to have lost our identity: Children and old people are penned up and locked away from the business I am confident that as they gain self-knowledge they'll also become self-teachers, and only self-teaching has any lasting value. We've got to give the kids independent time right away because that is the key to self-knowledge, and we must reinvolve them with the real world as fast as possible so that the independent time can be spent on something other than more abstractions. This is an emergency It requires drastic action to correct. Our children are dying like flies in our schools. Good schooling or bad schooling, it's all the same-irrelevant.” ….“The curriculum of family is at the heart of any good life. We've gotten away from that curriculum-ifs time to return to it. The way to sanity in education is for our schools to take the lead in releasing the stranglehold of institutions on family life: to promote during school time confluences of parent and child that will strengthen family bonds. That was my real purpose in sending the girl and her mother down the Jersey coast to meet the police chief. “…“I have many ideas to make a family curriculum, and my guess is that a lot of you will have many ideas, too, once you begin to think about it. Our greatest problem in getting the kind of grassroots thinking going that could reform schooling is that we have large, vested interests profiting from schooling just exactly as it is, despite rhetoric to the contrary.” John Gatto.
www.sedl.org/change/issues/issues61.html SEDL: Southwest Education Development Laboratory Issues..about change Vol.6 #1 Professional Learning Communities: What are they and why are they important? The article states the importance of professional learning communities by bringing teachers and administrators together to seek and share learning plus act on what they have learned in their group. The article also states the goal of PLC's is that the actions of teachers and adminstratiors would enhance their effectiveness as professionals in which the students could greatly benefit from. The article looks at schools as organizational arrangements in which PLC's are effective in producing school change and improvement. This article reminds me of Senge in which he states learning communities enhances the groups ability to create and influence change in order to reach a common goal.
Ed Cal Education California is the official site and newspaper of the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA). I get the magazine from my principal at school and I find alot of pertinent and intersting article related to education. The ACSA motto is "Leadrship Matters, Diversity Counts." I thought that pertained to this class. The web site provides much more information about the ACSA and many great articles too. The December 10, 2007 volume number had some intersesting and frustrating topics on the budget shortfall and diversity issues. It spoke of open dialouges with Gov. Schwarzenegger, other ACSA memebers and leaders of other educational organizations to try to get their points across before the governor nells down the state budget. It doesn't seem to me that it helped out to much!!!!!
I discovered this site this week and found it addictive. The organization hosts collaborative competitions to solve real world problems. The site has an extensive library and a decades worth of journals centered on equity and diversity each providing opportunities for reflection.
Movei:We are Marshall, Director Joesph McGinty, (2006) I decided to pick a movie my wife and I watched Saturday night. During the entire movie she got tired of me saying, “Oh that is a benevolent type of leader, and that case is a participation type leader, and that fits with diversity, equality and definitely community,” of course I had to explain to my wife what all these cases meant.
The movie starts in 1970 where the Marshall University football team, all 75, die in an airplane crash coming home from an away game. During the first 10 minutes, the movie illustrates the entire town, some way or another glued to the radio, at home, restaurant, bars, friend’s house, basically the town shuts down during game time.
The entire movie is about community and diversity. The new coach needs to help change the perception of what once was. The returning players and assistant coach viewed the Marshall way as, “People look at your record. It’s not how you play the game its win or lose…we will win and we are Marshall.” This was the mind set of the community also. The community of Marshall was devastated by the loss, and thought it was in disrespect of their beloved Marshall team that died. This movie has so many connections to our class about leadership, diversity, and definitely community. Sorry it’s so long, but this movie definitely made me think about everything we discussed on Wednesday.
I’m going to be attending the Solution Tree Conference entitled Learning By Doing. I decided to take a book off of my principal’s bookshelf that was written by a presenter at this conference. The book I chose is Leadership and Sustainability. This book examines past reforms in education, and emphasizes that all are temporary. The author, Michael Fullan, attempts to show a sustainable reform where system thinkers are in action. The book refers to Peter Senge, and gives him credit for the systems movement. Fullan states that we are not making progress at fostering Senge’s ideas in practice. He then gives his thoughts on how to get systems thinking into practice.
ok, try #2 the first time failed, wrong button, erase, scream, etc.
Why is this valuable?
Cabrillo HIgh had a buy-back day on Monday, Jan. 28th- I thought, "Oh, goodie, another fascinating adventure that the school is spend money on that is useless. Yes, I am a skeptic. The speaker was Jay Westover from Solution Tree. He brought up two very interesting points that went along with the Senge piece that I recently read.
#1 What is the difference between being a Group and a Team? Teams- understand goals,feel ownership, climate of trust, open and honest communication, recognize conflict is normal. created by Janet Malone, Poway USD
Are you a team or a group?
#2- Team Development Wheel
Intersting way to look at the stages of team development. --Forming- polite, impersonal, guarded --Storming- conflicts, confrontation, opting out, difficulties --Norming-get organized, develop skills, feedback, procedures --Performing- closeness, resourceful, open, effective
Nice to see what we can expect when we look at teaming for PLC's
The 7 Ways To Create Leader Credibility Author: Eric Garner http://www.article99.com/self-help/leadership/article.php?art=5731 I found these 7 steps to creating leader credibility particularly interesting. Although 7 steps sounds like something you can do in an afternoon, these will take a little more time. We are all looking for a roadmap to establishing effective leadership, but those who are currently in leadership positions should continue to seek the same. Those in positions of authority should be careful to reevaluate themselves and their connection to those they are leading. I have encountered some leaders who have no sense of humor and are unapproachable at best. Leaders need to give their followers a reason to follow. “authority” alone is not enough to inspire those you lead.
http://www.nwlink.com Diversity and Leadership Great site dealing with all the challenges and components of leadership and diversity. One of the great challenges is getting all of its employees, from the superintendent to the janitor, to realize that to become the best then they must embrace diversity. Diversity is about empowering people and promoting the human spirit. It makes an organization effective by capitalizing on all the strengths of each employee.
Breaking Stereotypes in Education This article addresses the stereotype of athletics and education. They discuss the same methodology that work in the classroom are still applied on the field or court. Often in education the athletic coach is looked down upon as not being a teacher at all and is somehow responsible for the reason that “Johnny can’t read”. In truth and from my perspective it is not that way at all. Good coaching methodology contains what current brain research concludes is also good “teaching” methodology. http://tidefans.com/forums/blog.php?b=33
The Three Pillars of Leadership Differing Styles of Successful Leadership HCG Insights Fall 2004
Interesting article that outlined and researched three fundamentally different styles of leadership. All three are rarely found in the same individual. Be who you are. Develop your natural leadership style and develop it to its fullest potential.
1. Visionary Evangelists- See possibilities Creates compelling picture of future state Vision motivates followers Inspires others Self-Confident Risk takers Push for Action
2. Relationship Builder- Outstanding Social Skills Emotional Intelligence Great Ability to connect with people Relationship built on trust Approachable style Open to ideas of others Shares Power
3. Manager of Execution- Provides Structure, focus, and sense of priority Excellent administrator Gets things done efficiently Attends to details and plans Reliable to get job done Holds others accountable Provides rigor and controls to get job done
I read everyones summaries and I want to say they were all truly insightful. I had a hard time trying to respond to just one entry so I decided to let everyone-Great Job!!!
The Positive Workplace: Anyone Can Be a Leader http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200802/ The Costco Connection Pg.9 February 2008.volume23.number 2
Week #2 Resource I was flipping through the Costco-Lifestyle magazine when I came across an interesting article titled “Anyone Can Be a Leader” by Robin Sharma. As I read the article, it touched base on what we had discussed in class. “What is leadership?” Leadership is not about the size of your wallet or your title. It’s more about the depth of your commitment and strength of your character, rather than the position you hold. Sharma has a catch phrase he has been sharing with business clients around the world. “Lead without a title” He believes leadership is a way of being, and inspiring all those who surround you to realize their special gifts and strengths, which will enable them to be the best they can be. It’s about a commitment to excellence and a goal to make things better. Leadership is about connecting with people deeply, genuinely, and passionately. Any person who wants to lead-and live-a remarkable life can.
OK-I've waited until the last minute to get online, but I've really been thinking about leadership and what it takes to be a good administrator. (After all, I live with one, and we are constantly debating the subject! Trust me-it comes up more often than I'd like! :)
Anyway-I found a great article in the January.february 2008 Leadership magazine published by ACSA, titled: Fastball Leadership.
It really highlights not only what we discussed in class last Wednesday, and what we've been reading about on the blog, but also what we came up with in Dr. Brand's class about the best qualities an administrator should possess to be successful. The article highlights the characteristics of effective and ineffective leaders, pointing out that effective leaders are visionary, creative, courageous, passionate, and balanced. Sounds familiar, doesn't it! It also mentions John Maxwell, a favorite author on the subject of leadership, who identifies how to build unity amidst diversity by asking 8 important questions. I'll bring a copy of the article to share on Wednesday. In the meantime, keep in mind the following questions to ask yourself at the end of every day, according to the author of the article: Did I make a difference today? Did I have fun? If you can't answer in the affirmative, he says you need to re-examine your priorities. So, with that-have a fun and productive week and I'll see everyone on Wednesday night!
Famous Quotes and Quotations.com jttp://www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com/leadership-quotes.html This web site offers numerous categories of quotes. "The Top Ten Finest Leadership Quotes" were excellent and aligned well with our first session. I look forward to sharing them with everyone in class. The site lists all the quotes authors.
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Education Commission of the States (ECS) http://www.ecs.org
This web site is a clearinghouse for information on topics specific to education. The slogan of this organization is “Helping state leaders shape education policy”. This is a lofty claim, but the site does provide numerous resource options to support or challenge beliefs on education issues. Topics range from Accountability to Unions/Collective Bargaining. They cover early education to adult education. The site is underwritten by Pearson Education and all sources are cited.
Great resource Dianne! Thanks for posting. David
Week 2 Blog:
Movie: Columbia Pictures, To Sir, With Love, Sidney Poitier (1966)
I used this movie for an assignment in my curriculum studies course. It is the story of an out of work engineer who is forced to take a teaching job to make ends meet. He is assigned to a “tough” high school in an industrial London town. When his “traditional” methods of teaching yield no results (only escalated “rude” behavior), he takes a series of steps to transform his classroom. His actions mirror what I feel are some of the essential responsibilities of an effective leader, whether in the classroom or as a school administrator.
1) Mr. Thackeray (the teacher), first recognizes that his audience is not one to be reached by “traditional” means. As teachers and administrators we can become so entrenched in our “traditional” way of doing things that we are unable to recognize when our methods are no longer effective.
2) Thackeray begins by establishing a protocol for classroom etiquette. Administrators must also establish protocols and be willing to confront those who do not adhere to the established codes of behavior. (This also brings to mind the Professional Learning Community model where teachers must begin the process of teaming by first establishing their meeting protocols.)
3) By changing his methods, Thackeray switches the focus in the classroom from teaching to learning. He is no longer concerned only with what he is teaching, but with what the students are actually learning. An effective school leader must be in continual dialogue with his/her staff in order to understand what they already know and what they need to learn. This requires an individual who is willing to take the time to truly listen to others. Only then can we eliminate inefficient methods and redundancy and get to the heart of what the members of the organization need to know in order to be efficient and effective at their jobs.
4) A major turning point in the movie comes when Mr. Thackeray reveals some of his past experiences with his students. In an exchange between Thackeray and his students they learn for the first time that despite his current refined demeanor and professional attire he actually comes from a background very similar to theirs. By revealing a part of who he is to them the students begin to connect with him and see him as a “real” person. As a result the students begin to actually listen to what he has to say. I feel this is an important quality for any school leader. Instead of being the elusive leader we must be willing to reveal some of our flaws so others will see us as accessible and approachable.
My conclusions: It is not required to emulate Mark Thackeray’s exact techniques, but to be focused on the message he imparts. To be effective teachers/leaders we must strive to make the curriculum meaningful to our students. We must know our audience and seek to draw upon their prior experiences and their current situations to create a curriculum that will actually be learned, not just taught. Create an atmosphere of mutual respect. Put protocols in place so everyone understands the expectations. Never demean others, either overtly or covertly. Allow for choice as often as possible (PLC’s). Employ an inquiry based learning style. Create an atmosphere where inquiry is the norm, where the students/teachers do most of the talking, not you. Be available to your students/teachers. Let them know who you are and what is important to you. Share your ideas, interests, and thinking process with them as often as possible. If you like classic movies and have the time I recommend watching To Sir, With Love. You may get something entirely different out of the experience!
www.afhe.org/resources/articles/gatto_teacher_of_year_speech_1990.pdf
How this does NOT relates to our course and/or leadership, diversity, equity, or community? WOW! This reads and is crafted with such important to values long forgotten in education today. The author is inside my head. Key points:
“Our school crisis is a reflection of this greater social crisis. We seem to have lost our identity: Children and old people are penned up and locked away from the business I am confident that as they gain self-knowledge they'll also become self-teachers, and only self-teaching has any lasting value. We've got to give the kids independent time right away because that is the key to self-knowledge, and we must reinvolve them with the real world as fast as possible so that the independent time can be spent on something other than more abstractions. This is an emergency It requires drastic action to correct. Our children are dying like flies in our schools. Good schooling or bad schooling, it's all the same-irrelevant.” ….“The curriculum of family is at the heart of any good life. We've gotten away from that curriculum-ifs time to return to it. The way to sanity in education is for our schools to take the lead in releasing the stranglehold of institutions on family life: to promote during school time confluences of parent and child that will strengthen family bonds. That was my real purpose in sending the girl and her mother down the Jersey coast to meet the police chief. “…“I have many ideas to make a family curriculum, and my guess is that a lot of you will have many ideas, too, once you begin to think about it. Our greatest problem in getting the kind of grassroots thinking going that could reform schooling is that we have large, vested interests profiting from schooling just exactly as it is, despite rhetoric to the contrary.” John Gatto.
www.sedl.org/change/issues/issues61.html
SEDL: Southwest Education Development Laboratory
Issues..about change
Vol.6 #1
Professional Learning Communities:
What are they and why are they important?
The article states the importance of professional learning communities by bringing teachers and administrators together to seek and share learning plus act on what they have learned in their group. The article also states the goal of PLC's is that the actions of teachers and adminstratiors would enhance their effectiveness as professionals in which the students could greatly benefit from. The article looks at schools as organizational arrangements in which PLC's are effective in producing school change and improvement.
This article reminds me of Senge in which he states learning communities enhances the groups ability to create and influence change in order to reach a common goal.
http://www.acsa.org
Ed Cal Education California is the official site and newspaper of the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA). I get the magazine from my principal at school and I find alot of pertinent and intersting article related to education.
The ACSA motto is "Leadrship Matters, Diversity Counts." I thought that pertained to this class.
The web site provides much more information about the ACSA and many great articles too.
The December 10, 2007 volume number had some intersesting and frustrating topics on the budget shortfall and diversity issues.
It spoke of open dialouges with Gov. Schwarzenegger, other ACSA memebers and leaders of other educational organizations to try to
get their points across before the governor nells down the state budget. It doesn't seem to me that it helped out to much!!!!!
http://changemakers.net
I discovered this site this week and found it addictive. The organization hosts collaborative competitions to solve real world problems. The site has an extensive library and a decades worth of journals centered on equity and diversity each providing opportunities for reflection.
Movei:We are Marshall, Director Joesph McGinty, (2006)
I decided to pick a movie my wife and I watched Saturday night. During the entire movie she got tired of me saying, “Oh that is a benevolent type of leader, and that case is a participation type leader, and that fits with diversity, equality and definitely community,” of course I had to explain to my wife what all these cases meant.
The movie starts in 1970 where the Marshall University football team, all 75, die in an airplane crash coming home from an away game. During the first 10 minutes, the movie illustrates the entire town, some way or another glued to the radio, at home, restaurant, bars, friend’s house, basically the town shuts down during game time.
The entire movie is about community and diversity. The new coach needs to help change the perception of what once was. The returning players and assistant coach viewed the Marshall way as, “People look at your record. It’s not how you play the game its win or lose…we will win and we are Marshall.” This was the mind set of the community also. The community of Marshall was devastated by the loss, and thought it was in disrespect of their beloved Marshall team that died. This movie has so many connections to our class about leadership, diversity, and definitely community. Sorry it’s so long, but this movie definitely made me think about everything we discussed on Wednesday.
Fullan, Michael. Leadership and
Sustainability. Thousand
Oaks, California: Corwin
Press, 2005
I’m going to be attending the Solution Tree Conference entitled Learning By Doing. I decided to take a book off of my principal’s bookshelf that was written by a presenter at this conference. The book I chose is Leadership and Sustainability. This book examines past reforms in education, and emphasizes that all are temporary. The author, Michael Fullan, attempts to show a sustainable reform where system thinkers are in action. The book refers to Peter Senge, and gives him credit for the systems movement. Fullan states that we are not making progress at fostering Senge’s ideas in practice. He then gives his thoughts on how to get systems thinking into practice.
ok, try #2 the first time failed, wrong button, erase, scream, etc.
Why is this valuable?
Cabrillo HIgh had a buy-back day on Monday, Jan. 28th- I thought, "Oh, goodie, another fascinating adventure that the school is spend money on that is useless. Yes, I am a skeptic.
The speaker was Jay Westover from Solution Tree. He brought up two very interesting points that went along with the Senge piece that I recently read.
#1 What is the difference between being a Group and a Team?
Teams- understand goals,feel ownership, climate of trust, open and honest communication, recognize conflict is normal.
created by Janet Malone, Poway USD
Are you a team or a group?
#2- Team Development Wheel
Intersting way to look at the stages of team development.
--Forming- polite, impersonal, guarded
--Storming- conflicts, confrontation, opting out, difficulties
--Norming-get organized, develop skills, feedback, procedures
--Performing- closeness, resourceful, open, effective
Nice to see what we can expect when we look at teaming for PLC's
*Staff Development Planning Guide
The 7 Ways To Create Leader Credibility
Author: Eric Garner http://www.article99.com/self-help/leadership/article.php?art=5731
I found these 7 steps to creating leader credibility particularly interesting. Although 7 steps sounds like something you can do in an afternoon, these will take a little more time. We are all looking for a roadmap to establishing effective leadership, but those who are currently in leadership positions should continue to seek the same. Those in positions of authority should be careful to reevaluate themselves and their connection to those they are leading. I have encountered some leaders who have no sense of humor and are unapproachable at best. Leaders need to give their followers a reason to follow. “authority” alone is not enough to inspire those you lead.
http://www.nwlink.com
Diversity and Leadership
Great site dealing with all the challenges and components of leadership and diversity. One of the great challenges is getting all of its employees, from the superintendent to the janitor, to realize that to become the best then they must embrace diversity. Diversity is about empowering people and promoting the human spirit. It makes an organization effective by capitalizing on all the strengths of each employee.
Breaking Stereotypes in Education
This article addresses the stereotype of athletics and education. They discuss the same methodology that work in the classroom are still applied on the field or court. Often in education the athletic coach is looked down upon as not being a teacher at all and is somehow responsible for the reason that “Johnny can’t read”. In truth and from my perspective it is not that way at all. Good coaching methodology contains what current brain research concludes is also good “teaching” methodology.
http://tidefans.com/forums/blog.php?b=33
The Three Pillars of Leadership
Differing Styles of Successful Leadership
HCG Insights Fall 2004
Interesting article that outlined and researched three fundamentally different styles of leadership.
All three are rarely found in the same individual. Be who you are. Develop your natural leadership style and develop it to its fullest potential.
1. Visionary Evangelists-
See possibilities
Creates compelling picture of future state
Vision motivates followers
Inspires others
Self-Confident
Risk takers
Push for Action
2. Relationship Builder-
Outstanding Social Skills
Emotional Intelligence
Great Ability to connect with people
Relationship built on trust
Approachable style
Open to ideas of others
Shares Power
3. Manager of Execution-
Provides Structure, focus, and sense of priority
Excellent administrator
Gets things done efficiently
Attends to details and plans
Reliable to get job done
Holds others accountable
Provides rigor and controls to get job done
I read everyones summaries and I want to say they were all truly insightful. I had a hard time trying to respond to just one entry so I decided to let everyone-Great Job!!!
The Positive Workplace: Anyone Can Be a Leader
http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200802/
The Costco Connection Pg.9 February 2008.volume23.number 2
Week #2 Resource
I was flipping through the Costco-Lifestyle magazine when I came across an interesting article titled “Anyone Can Be a Leader” by Robin Sharma.
As I read the article, it touched base on what we had discussed in class. “What is leadership?” Leadership is not about the size of your wallet or your title. It’s more about the depth of your commitment and strength of your character, rather than the position you hold.
Sharma has a catch phrase he has been sharing with business clients around the world. “Lead without a title”
He believes leadership is a way of being, and inspiring all those who surround you to realize their special gifts and strengths, which will enable them to be the best they can be. It’s about a commitment to excellence and a goal to make things better. Leadership is about connecting with people deeply, genuinely, and passionately.
Any person who wants to lead-and live-a remarkable life can.
OK-I've waited until the last minute to get online, but I've really been thinking about leadership and what it takes to be a good administrator. (After all, I live with one, and we are constantly debating the subject! Trust me-it comes up more often than I'd like! :)
Anyway-I found a great article in the January.february 2008 Leadership magazine published by ACSA, titled: Fastball Leadership.
It really highlights not only what we discussed in class last Wednesday, and what we've been reading about on the blog, but also what we came up with in Dr. Brand's class about the best qualities an administrator should possess to be successful. The article highlights the characteristics of effective and ineffective leaders, pointing out that effective leaders are visionary, creative, courageous, passionate, and balanced. Sounds familiar, doesn't it!
It also mentions John Maxwell, a favorite author on the subject of leadership, who identifies how to build unity amidst diversity by asking 8 important questions. I'll bring a copy of the article to share on Wednesday.
In the meantime, keep in mind the following questions to ask yourself at the end of every day, according to the author of the article: Did I make a difference today? Did I have fun? If you can't answer in the affirmative, he says you need to re-examine your priorities.
So, with that-have a fun and productive week and I'll see everyone on Wednesday night!
Famous Quotes and Quotations.com
jttp://www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com/leadership-quotes.html
This web site offers numerous categories of quotes. "The Top Ten Finest Leadership Quotes" were excellent and aligned well with our first session. I look forward to sharing them with everyone in class. The site lists all the quotes authors.
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