Leadership+Types,+or+Styles

Noah Wilson

I began looking for some leadership styles, or types,but i think i am going to re-route my search towards more how leaders bring constituents together. This looks to be a more viable search and have a better outcome on our staff. I was just thinking that the leadership style of the boss is not all that effects the staff. It is more of what the boss does to bring the staff together. I have found that i can go in one direction for so long that i actually convince myself that it is the right direction. So i had to rethink this one a bit.

10-29-11 O'Connor is a principal that is not effective and not empowering his staff the way he could. He has the perfect staff for either a wonderful school community, or the perfect storm for failure. His situation is one that any opptomistics principal in the world would love to be in. He has old staff that has a good grasp on the students and community and a new staff that is compitent, highly qualufied and motivated. This seems like the ideal situation for success. It is in my opinion that he has two objectives that he drastically needs to meet. He needs to: 1. Gain respect of, not only the new faculty, but the entire faculty. 2. Empower his faculty to work coopertively and effectively on the new imposed reform.

This article is about empowering teachers, not by alllowing them to make more decisions, which causes more stress, but by giving them the power to exercise one's craft with confidence and to help shape the way that the job is to be done []
 * Principals ' efforts to empower teachers: effects on teacher motivation and job satisfaction and stress **

This study discusses the effects of loosing higly qualified teachers and discusses the role of the principal in keeping new teachers. Different techniques district use in attraching and retaining teachers. []
 * Retaining teachers in challenging schools **

I chose this article because it contents that "Principal leadership has a very strong positive effect on teacher community -- the strongest effect of any policy-amenable variable." There is also a section on principal leadership's and employee accountabilty. [] Weathers, J. (2011). Teacher Community in Urban Elementary Schools : The Role of Leadership and Bureaucratic Accountability. //Education Policy Analysis Archives//, //19//(3). Retrieved from ERIC database These are a few of the good articles i have found so far. Now searching for ideas to make O'Connor a stronger leader.
 * Teacher Community in Urban Elementary Schools : The Role of Leadership and Bureaucratic Accountability**

10-30-11 coaching leaders to bring out the best in their teachers [] 11-4-11 I fond this article in the book and then online. It has a lot of insteresting finding and the quote i am going to open my paper with, "there are no documented instances of troubled schools being turned around with out intervention by a powerful leader." Leithwood, K., Patten, S., & Jantzi, D. (2010). Testing a Conception of How School LeadershipInfluencesStudentLearning. //Educational Administration Quarterly//, //46//(5), 671-706. doi: 10.1177/0013161X10377347 []
 * Leadership Coaching: Coaching Competencies and Best Practices **
 * Testing a Conception of How School Leadership Influences Student Learning **

11-5-11

**So here is what my leadership section looks like in a nutshell.**

 * Section 1.**
 * Take it from Britany's new mission and vision and show that schools need strong leadership. Use data showing how strong leadership raises student acheivement and explain how our principal O'connor is lacking in this area.**


 * Section 2**
 * Explain what strong leaders do and what they need to do to be successful.**


 * Section 3**
 * Show how first year Principal Oconnor** can be a better leader. As superintendent i believe that Hickory Ridge High School has what it taeks to be a world class school. They have the community, young invigorateing teachers, older experienced teachers, technology capabilities, community support and if they can bring a strong leader into the front of the organizationthan they will succeed.

practices should directly relate to ways in which teaching can be continually improved and if the administration at Hickory Ridge is to be a leader of instruction, than he needs to start by becoming a better leader himself and a coach would surely help in that area.