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SUMMER 2022
EDGR 645 Challenges in Leadership
This class was a deep dive into a second round of leadership, with a focus of challenges that leaders face in today's organizations. With research from Brene Browns' book Dare to Lead, our class was able to learn skills to grapple with vulnerability and leaning in to hard conversations. We also had the opportunity to discuss the relationships among leadership awareness, skills, processes, styles and individuals, as well as team and organization changes. Within these conversations, we also built in understandings of Appreciative Inquiry and Positive Psychology that creates an emphasis on authentic teacher leadership, organizational frames, systems analysis, and the change process. Even though there was a heavy emphasis on research and skills, this course was more internalized work and allowed specific, protected time to think about who we are as leaders and where we would like to head in the future.
For this course, I decided to share my reflection journal as my artifact. Throughout this, I was able to capture key speaking points from the research that deepened my understanding and pushed my thinking, included journal prompts that reflected my day to day learning experiences, as well as capturing our whole class think tank moments. I found this class the most rewarding because of the internal reflection process, the ability to talk to colleagues about their own learning experiences, and to plan for in-school accountability to continue our practice.
FALL 2020
EDGR 615 Curriculum and Management Decision Making: Supervision, Evaluation, and Teacher Growth
This class was like taking two courses within one: one strand focused on best teaching practices with updated research and methodology while to second piece was about how leaders within schools, particularly administration, best support their faculty and staff with the delivery and instruction. Our readings consisted of learning about the demands of society today on our school systems, cultural pressures in and on school systems, the moment-to-moment decision making made by teachers day in and day out, and the supervision and evaluation systems that can lead schools to be highly effective and efficient in student learning and progress. More specifically, we were given the opportunities to dive into how to create an engaging workforce within a learning organization through using appreciative management supervision strategies.
For this course, I decided to share three different documents. The first being a reflection of my practice while taking this course. I had the opportunity of leading different interviews with different colleagues around supervision and evaluation which allowed me to dig deeper into this practice and how it can affect a learning organization. My reflection goes to show my areas of improvement as well as where I wish to head as a future leader. I also shared our final case study and my response. This is my example of applying the appreciative management supervision strategies and I look to this tool as another learning opportunity.
FALL 2019
EDGR 640 Dimensions in Leadership & Organization
Within this course, we were introduced to research and leadership practices of educational institutions in today's world. We focused on organizational structures and changes as well as what does a strong leader need to be effective. We also had a heavy emphasis on leadership awareness, skills, processes, styles, and how individual versus team within an organization can impact change. This course was more exploration on a personal level, beginning to understand who we are as leaders as well as who we wish to become, as well as the definition of teacher leadership and its emerging role within the 21st century learning organizations.
For this course strand, I decided to share my letter to self that I wrote at the beginning of the course as well as a strength-based assessment. Being one of the first courses I was involved in for the program, I found that these two examples demonstrate where I have started as a leader and give me a foundation where I can come back to myself, reflect, and continue to find areas of curiosity and growth.
Gallup - Strengths Based Assessment
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