STANDARD SEVEN
Micro-political leadership- develops systems to leverage staff expertise to affect school's performance; awareness of staffs professional needs, interests, and issues; builds cohesion and facilitates shared decision making.
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7A- School Executive Micro-political Leadership
The school executive develops systems and relationships to leverage staff expertise and influence in order to affect the school's identity, culture, and performance.
During my residency, I attended several of the Board Advisory Council meetings. These meetings gave me an opportunity to hear different perspectives about issues regarding social emotional learning, grading, and educational spending from parents, principals, and school board memories. The artifact that I have attached is of the handouts provided by the Public School Forum when they presented at the March Board Advisory Council meeting. The purpose of this presentation was to make key stake holders in the district aware of the disparities in resources between wealthier counties and lower wealth counties due to the increasing role of local spending over time.
To expand my professional network within Wake County Public Schools, I decided to join an Assistant Principal Professional Learning Network. Our professional learning focused on the book, The Principal Influence, which is a book that was published by ASCD about a framework that they recommend that principals should use to capitalize on their leadership roles: Principal as a Visionary, Principal as an Instructional Leader, Principal as Engager, and Principal as Learner and Collaborator.
During my residency, I attended several intern institutes with other Wake County Principal interns and residents. Attending these sessions allowed for me to learn from several district leaders, principals, and assistant principals. Topics that were covered during the intern institute, included: communication, equity, recruiting, evaluation, employee relations, social-emotional learning, security, transportation, student assignment, finance, and interviewing. Each session also had a principal or assistant principal panel made up of principals or assistant principals currently serving in Wake County. The panels allowed interns and residents the opportunity to ask questions about their experiences as an administrator to leverage our own expertise and influence in the future schools that we will lead.