Reflection: I feel this is an area of strength for me and I enjoy guiding our educational leadership teams towards our vision of student success. Over the past few years I have had the opportunity to co-facilitate, co-coach, and help create many collaborative teams that have had positive impacts on our school and district. Our teams have grown in effectiveness as we have learned to balance our strengths and weaknesses, assign members to roles, hold each accountable, support each other’s ideas, and have a plan for all we do.

I believe it is important to work effectively in a team in order to foster positive school climate and culture and to gain representation from all stakeholders in our learning community. These teams are most effective when school leaders are working together with their learning communities and they are focused on the same jointly created vision. In order to foster a shared ownership, it is important that leaders seek, listen to, and use the information their team and stakeholders provide, they must share information and responsibilities, provide direction on the district’s goals, and help set priorities. The educational leader is responsible to keep the team moving in the right direction, contribute to the work being done, provide the “bigger picture” needs and resources of the district, maintain focus on the needs of all learners in the community, and keep the team working effectively together.

Artifacts

4. ED 640 PreK - 12 Administration; Climate and Culture reflection