What information will you need?
Critical information from this point forward would regard the faculty of teachers. Our leadership must take a distributive form, within which teachers are also part of a leadership structure. Because there will be so many practical and educational challenges in this new environment, and likely some sense of resentment or resistance amongst transferred teachers, it will be necessary to let educators feel that they have a direct stake in the leadership structure at Misery. We must therefore identify based on experience and reputation those instructors who should be tapped for internal leadership
What will your first actions be?
Thereafter, the first action will be to appoint department heads and others who can be dispatched as leaders and positive examples to the many young teachers and the share of resentful transfers that will make up the staff. This approach is justified...
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Take me through your first steps and strategies at Misery High School
The first step in this process would be to interview and vet potential department head candidates. After naming candidates, said candidates would subsequently be asked to assemble cross-departmental teams aimed at helping to proliferate the ideals and procedural norms that will help the school achieve stability and, if not excellence, at least basic proficiency.
Works Cited:
Lumby, J. (2003). Distributed Leadership in Colleges. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 31(3), 283-293.
Spillane, J.P. (2003). Educational Leadership. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 25(4) 343-346.
