Standards Reflection

Standard 1: A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all student by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by the school community.  "Shared Vision"
A school leader needs to be able to communicate the shared vision so the entire school community understands and acts on the school's mission ensuring that student achievement is occurring.  In order to make sure the emphasis is on student learning, school leaders need to make sure they are managing less and using that time effectively as an instructional leader.


Standard 2:  A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by advocating, nurturing and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional development.  "Culture of Learning"
I believe that effective schools that demonstrate high standards of achievement in academics, have a culture characterized by a well-defined set of goals that all members of the school-administration, faculty, and students-value and promote.  As a leader we need to establish and clearly communicate goals that define our expectations of our school with regard to academic achievement. 



Standard 3:  A school administrator is an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by ensuring management of the organization, operations, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment. "Management"
There were several in class articles that were based on management tasks that I felt were very beneficial to read. The article Make Friends with the Clock, by David Coley and Chris Hitch emphasized the importance of taking control of your time, invovling others, and making smarter decisions in order to have time to be the "instructional" leader.  If we don't have control over our time than there is now way to achieve 51% on instructional vs. 49% on management.  During our class, I also felt that the presentation on management was useful in seeing how schools of all sizes are functioning and how they are handling the various managerial tasks that are at hand on a daily basis.