Distributive Leadership Blog 5

Distributive leadership is the sharing of leadership between two or more individuals. This type of leadership has many names, such as shared, dispersed, relational, roving, collective, group-centered, broad-based, participatory, fluid, inclusive, and supportive leadership. In schools today, as the workload of administrators is constantly increasing, shared leadership is becoming widespread.
 School administrators cannot be everywhere at one time, they have begun to implement this type of leadership. Some schools distribute the leadership power between two administrators, while other schools involve teachers and parents, creating a group where there is no central leader in charge. As a result, numerous aspects of the schools or educational systems are attended to more fully and improvement is significant.
 At my school site the school distributes the leadership power among the three administrators, content specialist and the counselors.  Everyone has his or her task to do to help make things run smoothly and it seems to work very well for this school. 

Leadership theories Blog 4

Teacher leaders are a source of creativity development of unique forms of leadership.

These are essential tasks that guarantee the survival of the school as an organization. Yet, for the

school to transform itself into an institution, a learning community must emerge. Transactional leadership is affected by working with people and the work environment.  Transformational leadership is a contingency approach through culture, structure, symbols, politics and even gender.  Leadership needs and styles change from situations involving two variables; process and context. Leaders must work in different ways and change their styles to suit the situation.  Different patterns of behaviors grouped together to form leadership styles: concern for task, concern for people, directive and particpative.  Effectiveness of style depend on the contxt or setting in which it is used.  The leadership style theory that closely matches my approach would be concern for the people.  Concern for the people motivates the people to get involved and the more involvement the better the community can be to impact the future of our students.

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Power everyone is seeking to have some type of power.  I believe power has to be earned.  Many times the wrong people have power.  They are more focused on themselves then what is best for the greater good of the people.  When you are in the field of education it should be what is best for the needs of the students as well as the community.  The power dynamics at my school site is democractic.  They try to make sure everyone has a voice and that every voice is heard.  They try to work together for the greater good of everyone involved.  This was not how it always was but when we received a new principal things had to change.  Everyone was not happy about the change but once they notice how the change was benefical to everyone they agreed it was best.  This showed how we are suppose to work together as a team.

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Knowing a persons strength helps support the community.  It allows for connection and harmony to take place.  It is placing the greater good of the students and staff above all other things.  This is how you motivate and encourage a group of people.  To focus on the process and not just the product.  How we worked together as a team to support the community as a whole.  This is where the leaders stand tall and take the lead in getting the community to work together. 

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As I take this leadership course I hope that I will be come a stronger more effective leader. I feel there is not a balance in my leadership skills. I  want democracy or I want too many peoples imput. I feel this leadership course will introduce me to how to have balance in my skills so I can be effective to the learners by making sure their needs are being met. Teacher leadership is important as an educator. You must place the needs of the student above anything else. There must be consistency in your approach to handling situations. I hope to learn how to become a great teacher leader so that I may leave a lasting impact on my students future.