Kimberly Moritz recently tagged me for a school leadership meme. The topic is: “What are seven qualities we don’t know about you that help you be a leader?“ Without further ado, here goes:
- Analytical: Perhaps to a fault. I really don’t like to put something in place unless I’ve studied it from every possible angle. I love numbers. And don’t forget the graphs.
- Communication: I like to think I’m able to present those “brutal facts” to people who need it the most, and do it in a business-like but non-threatening manner.
- Collaboration: I love it when a project is born out of the efforts of more than one person.
- Creativity: Let’s look at the problem from a different angle so we can find a solution that we haven’t thought of yet. Lay all of your ideas out on the table, even the crazy ones.
- Equality: I don’t care if you’re a paraprofessional, a teacher, a specialist, a custodian, or an administrator. If you work at our school, we’re all on equal footing in terms of our responsibilities to our students, families, and community. It’s a bit of a cliché, but we’re all stakeholders in this community we call education.
- Tech savvy: Well, savvy enough to put something like this together anyway.
- Balance: I believe that it is my role as a father and my approach to parenthood that makes me who I am as an educator. Take away one job, and the other is greatly diminished.
Seven people (administrators, school leaders, and other edu-bloggers) I’m tagging for this:
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