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Leadership Journal Review EDU 681

This artifact comes from the EDU 681 class and is one piece of the collection of leadership journals for the class. This artifact highlights many areas which cultivates, advocates, and articulates core values that define school culture such as teachers being encouraged to become transformational leaders instead of transactional leaders. The latter is traditionally how administrators have seen teachers and trained them  to become since the beginning of education in America. This artifact also reveals a commitment to school mission, vision, and core values as administrators navigate a building of teachers who should be seen in roles of being a transformational leader. This artifact also contributes to educational mission of the school to promote academic success and well-being of the students since teachers will be working directly in these areas to improve the school.  

This journal review also highlights some areas of benefit for the teachers being encouraged to become transformational leaders such as: 1. Assisting the school to achieve their school growth plan. 2. Help make crucial decisions that directly impact the classroom. This artifact is beneficial for future practice as it is a great guide for how to encourage teachers to become leaders within the building in order to make a direct impact on many areas for students. 

Brainstorm List-EDU 684 

This artifact is a brainstorm list of potential innovative/entrepreneurial solutions which contributes to the shared understanding of and commitment to mission, vision, and core values within the school and the community. The ideas in the artifact identify a problem which in this case is traditional learning holding students back from learning. A solution is that students should be experiential learners and take a hands on approach to learning instead of just sitting and reading about the topic. Having teachers and other administrators on board with this process will allow the school and community to become involved in giving these students the experience needed to be successful.  This artifact also focuses on child-centered education; high expectations and student support; equity, inclusiveness, and social justice; openness, caring, and trust; and continuous improvement. The artifact covers all these areas as experiential learning and community involvement is one of the best ways to reach all students and give them a chance to continuously learn through feedback and more experimentation. 

This artifact will impact future practices as an administrator because it reminds me of how important it is for kids to experience hands on learning in order to explore the world around them and become a well rounded student in the world.