School's Reforms Stay Intact After a Leader

¶ … school's reforms stay intact after a leader leaves requires that others have been developed within that system to fulfill the void left by the leader. It becomes obvious the importance of professional development, mentoring and solid leadership. The legacy of a leader may be kept going if the values and ethics resonate with the remaining leaders within the school.

To ensure this happens leaders need to continually reinforce their ideals on a regular basis in order for it to truly take hold and make a lasting and impressive change that can continue well into the future. The current beliefs about school improvement within my current environment suggests that there is a great tendency to drag their collective feet when confronted with change.

In many cases the need for change is obvious, and many complaints are discussed, but when it comes down to actually improving, the situation, procrastination tends to sink in and cause some issues. My leadership style is one that is based on collective goals and objectives and not the individual. This supportive of school change and improvement because it displays an unselfish attitude that must be adopted by all those who wish to transcend the current failures within the school.

This course has helped me fine tune my leadership skills in some ways by identifying problems in a new way. By evaluating and not being the evaluatee a new aspect of learning can be developed where new ideas flourish and the ego can be put aside for objective criticism. This approach has helped reveal that I need to continually improve my team building skills and not act in self serving ways that distract from the bigger picture.

Part 3 My school believes that school improvement is necessary but there are no clear pathways to success. When considering the idea " innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not as a threat," my school does not fully accept this premise or perhaps chooses not to collectively act upon opportunities that are present everywhere in our school and class room environment. My school has no real plan.