Written Assignment 3

byEwing Coleman GreenEDD 9100L CRN 35777

Leadership

Nova Southeastern UniversityMarch 20, 2013

Leadyourship

LeadershipLeadership can be thought of as captaining a

shipLead…your…ship (pronounced “lead-yer-ship”)

The process of influencing others to achieve organizational objectives (Northouse, 2012)

Therefore…Extraordinary leadership involves people

achieving extraordinary results

Leadership as an influence process requires…

VisionMental model of ideal future state (Northouse,

2012)View of what we can become (Clawson, 2012)Desirable destination, a beckoning summit (Kouzes

& Posner, 2007)

Knowing bothWhere we are, our current situation, or our

port

Where want to be, or our destination

Leadership is…Personal

Involving matters of style and traits

Autocratic Democratic

Being ethical

Yes No

Providing direction

Providing support

Avoiding and managing obstacles

Dealing with challenges

How does a leader juggle all this?

Shanghai American School (SAS)

Political EnvironmentTurnover at the topStability at the second and third levelsStrong focus on missionMiddle School structured around LT and PLCsHighly distributed leadership modelCollaboration is the normPolicies developed by Admin, some Faculty Council

influence

SAS (cont’d)Communication

Email-basedLT-PLC coordinationWednesday after school staff meetings

Decision makingParticipative between LT, PLCs, and staffData and research-based

Technology1:1 school, Wi-Fi basedBlogs, wikis, Moodle, iWebsStudent ePortfolio under development

Management vs Leadership

Bureaucracy vs Infocracy (Clawson, 2012)Management involves structuring and allocation

of resourcesLeadership includes mission and vision

development, and management responsibilitiesLeader Manager

School mission team PLC coordinatorAssessment task force 21st century learningLT member SBR transitionDifferentiation team Professional

DevelopmentePortfolio team Self

ConsiderContinua vs. Absolutes

Democratic AutocraticParticipative DirectiveIntrovert ExtrovertTask RelationshipFlow ConflictCollaborative Out-group behaviorGroup forming Group

performing(Smith, 2005)

BalanceProcess and People

TeamworkModel and structure collaboration

VABEsValues, Assumptions, Beliefs, and Expectations

The leader’s and others’

Clawson, 2012, p. 32

Flow

Kouzes & Posner, 2007, p. 211 Clawson, 2012, p. 171

Leadership is about…“managing energy, first in yourself and then in those around you”

Clawson, 2012, p. 3

Celebrate!

…and then on to the next opportunity!!

References Clawson, J. G. (2012). Level three leadership: Getting below the

surface (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Kouzes, J., & Posner, B. (2007). The leadership challenge (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Northouse, P. G. (2012). Introduction to leadership (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Smith, M. K. (2005). Bruce W. Tuckman - forming, storming, norming and performing in groups. The Encyclopaedia of Informal Education. Retrieved from www.infed.org/thinkers/tuckman.htm

Image URLs Slide 2. Sailing ship. Retrieved from http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?

id=H.5056513132200413&pid=15.1

Slide 3. Captain (Love Boat). Retrieved from http://ts1.mm.bing. net/th?id=H.4837839166310208&pid=15.1

Slide 4. Captain and crew 1. Retrieved from http:ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4902315250681751&pid=15.1

Slide 4. Captain and crew 2. Retrieved from http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.5033054013228022&pid=15.1

Slide 4. Utopia. Retrieved from http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4752910492830033&pid=15.1

Image URLs (cont’d) Slide 4. Bullseye. Retrieved from http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?

id=H.4544196593451057&pid=15.1

Slide 5. Telescope 1. Retrieved from http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.5028973797377322&pid=15.1

Slide 5. Binoculars. Retrieved from http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4568793875087523&pid=15.1

Slide 6. Port. Retrieved from http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4849023272812677&pid=15.1

Slide 6. Destination. Retrieved from http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4787192936006050&pid=15.1

Image URLs (cont’d) Slide 7. Autocratic. Retrieved from http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?

id=H.4584058162380859&pid=15.1

Slide 7. Democratic. Retrieved from http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4885826850456411&pid=15.1

Slide 8. Balance. Retrieved from http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4789456382789272&pid=15.1

Slide 8. Arrested. Retrieved from http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4783636692010164&pid=15.1

Slide 9. Arrow. Retrieved from http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4537264508174477&pid=15.1

Image URLs (cont’d) Slide 9. Compass. Retrieved from http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?

id=H.4558473049735568&pid=15.1

Slide 10. Support. Retrieved from http://www.rbjpsy.com/assistance.htmlSlide 9. Lookout. Retrieved from http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4897522042340351&pid=15.1

Slide 11. Lookout. Retrieved from http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4897522042340351&pid=15.1

Slide 11. Shipwreck. Retrieved from http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4780582972098317&pid=15.1

Slide 12. Road sign. Retrieved from http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4802362733494651&pid=15.1

Image URLs (cont’d) Slide 12. Questions. Retrieved from

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4776451221030948&pid=15.1

Slide 13. Juggler. Retrieved from http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4720814220050878&pid=15.1

Slide 14. SAS logo. Retrieved from saschina.org Slide 14. Collaboration. Retrieved from

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4633467489878072&pid=15.1

Slide 15. MacBook. Retrieved from http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4579393838056765&pid=15.1

Image URLs (cont’d) Slide 18. Balance. Retrieved from http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?

id=H.4809359242691401&pid=15.1

Slide 19. Skydivers. Retrieved from http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4797513739404950&pid=15.1

Slide 19. Hands. Retrieved from http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4590264401724727&pid=15.1

Slide 22. Lightbulbs. Retrieved from http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4629455963423569&pid=15.1

Slide 23. Team celebration. Retrieved from http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.5012274950047519&pid=15.1

Image URLs (cont’d) Slide 23. Happy captain. Retrieved from

http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4750260485228034&pid=15.1