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**7a. 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.

Internship Activities
 * Attended PLCs and participated in discussions regarding 3D Reading data, math common assessments, and common planning. Participated in the implementation of "Team Time" where expert teachers re-teach students who do not master content the first time.
 * Conducted daily classroom walk-through observations
 * Spearheaded teambuilding activities for staff which aided in building systems and relationships that utilize staff's diversity and expertise.
 * Analyzed Teacher Working Conditions Survey with mentor principal. Compared 2010 results with 2012 results to find areas with largest difference. Discussed and implemented ways to address staff concerns.
 * Conducted surveys of staff, teacher assistants, and beginning teachers to discover professional needs, issues and interests to build cohesion and facilitate shared decision making. Implemented year-long professional development for beginning teachers and plan of action to address staff concerns after analyzing survey results with mentor principal.

Coursework, Trainings, and Readings
 * Participation in "Witch and Watch" Experiential Learning Activity to better understand communication in organizations with hierarchical structures
 * Participation in "Innovation Maze" Experiential Learning Activity to explore group work, problem solving, innovation, risk-taking and reactions to mistakes and then spearheaded this activity with staff at internship site.
 * Participation in a six day Social Justice course with Lydia Tredaway which helped develop my ethical leadership and principals of fairness and equity for students, people, processes and resources in schools.

Selected Artifacts

I created this walk through form to help me learn the strengths and weakness of staff members so that I can better address their needs.

Led and organized a team building activity for the staff which aided in building systems and relationships that utilize staff's diversity and expertise. My mentor principal asked me to organize this activity as a result of a survey that was sent out. The survey indicated that there were some morale issues and we needed something fun to address that. Some of the comments made by the staff were, "I really enjoyed that activity; I had so much fun; I understand how working as a team helps build cohesion." media type="custom" key="22569374"



I used the Teacher Working Conditions Survey to get an understanding of the needs of the staff. I discussed the plan of action with the mentor principal and have participated in the recommendations during my internship year.



I created a beginning teacher survey to obtain an understanding of their needs for a year-long professional development. This helped me discover professional needs, issues and interests to build cohesion and facilitate shared decision making. [|Beginning Teacher Survey]

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