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This document discusses identifying leadership positions in a school. It begins by outlining several non-instructional leadership roles including counselors, team leads, curriculum leads, coaches, student council mentors, and more. It then discusses the principal's role in supporting the school's vision and culture. The document concludes that the principal must carefully assign leadership responsibilities by considering staff strengths to best support students and create a positive learning environment.

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Identifying Leader Positions

This document discusses identifying leadership positions in a school. It begins by outlining several non-instructional leadership roles including counselors, team leads, curriculum leads, coaches, student council mentors, and more. It then discusses the principal's role in supporting the school's vision and culture. The document concludes that the principal must carefully assign leadership responsibilities by considering staff strengths to best support students and create a positive learning environment.

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Running head: IDENTIFYING LEADER POSITIONS 1

Identifying Leader Positions

Ariana Gervasio

Grand Canyon University: EAD-533

June 22nd, 2021


IDENTIFYING LEADER POSITIONS 2

Identifying Leader Positions

Part of being a successful school leader is establishing and sustaining a school

environment that promotes the development, well-being, and learning of every student. To

achieve an organizational goal like this, leadership has to be distributed to maximize guidance

and support. Identifying responsibilities is crucial, for if there is no purpose, one cannot expect a

successful outcome. Thus, successful leaders perform and assign responsibilities intentionally by

identifying the organizational needs that would associate with the outcome of leadership

positions.

Non-Instructional Leadership Positions

1. Counselors: The role of our counselors at the middle school level is that we have one for

7th grade and one for 8th grade. They conduct character-building and social-emotional

courses for our students. Part of their responsibilities also includes counseling sessions

for students and making home visits when applicable.

2. Team Leads: At my school, we have teams comprising one of each core teacher who all

share the same students. The team lead helps organize items like holding conferences,

scheduling parent meetings, and being a one-person contact for the principal to

communicate to for them to relay the information back to the team.

3. Curriculum Leads: At my school, these individuals meet regularly with the administration

to discuss programs and resources we like, we need, or other professional development

opportunities we can take to better ourselves.

4. Coaches: Team coaches play an integral part in the social development and unison of our

students. They provide instruction for our students to be leaders in their sport and the

classroom.
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5. Student Council Mentors: The mentors look after students who want to be part of the

student council. They help organize meetings, fundraisers, promotion, school dances, and

other school events/activities. The mentors help guide our students and communicate

with the administration to better help our school community.

6. National Junior Honor Society Mentor: This mentor oversees NJHS, who comprises

students with a high GPA. The mentor facilitates students taking out classroom recycling,

food donations, clothing donations, and how we can better our small community.

7. Before and After School Dismissal Coordinator: The coordinator for this is a teacher who

helps call student groups and assigns teachers different roles/responsibilities to watch

over students.

8. Tech Cadre: These leaders work with the technology department at the district level to

explore the new tech resources for teachers. They go to conferences, help teachers use

new tech, and host how-to classes for teachers.

Principal’s Support

A principal must support the school’s vision, exemplify appropriate dispositions, and

promote a positive school environment that establishes a learning culture. I need to assign and

identify leadership responsibilities within my staffing allocations. Every staff member plays a

part in establishing a positive school culture that then resembles the school’s mission and vision.

Collaboration is a key element where staff works closely with one another, administration,

parents, and the overall community to make sure we meet the needs of our students. To

successfully create a positive environment, I believe it takes communication, trust, relationship

building, and celebrating our accomplishments. Being principal, I will focus on creating a

community, which then includes all the aspects I have included above. When we make
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accomplishments we will celebrate, whether it’s from a staff member, student, or known

community member. By talking with these everyday leaders in my school, I can exemplify my

resources and maximize how we can utilize what we already have. Further, by creating

relationships with my staff members, I can better determine where each of their leadership

qualities can help the school overall.

Assigning Responsibilities

I must give leadership responsibilities through careful consideration and thought to

ensure a positive school and learning culture. If we do not consider the strengths of our staff

members and how to use their skill base, we are doing our school a disservice by not providing

our students with the best education possible. Our mentality should always be to work smarter,

not harder. Failure to select individuals carefully can fail in a task being completed to its best

ability. This would then reflect in student and staff success. For example, selecting a basketball

coach. You have a candidate of a teacher who has never coached and a candidate of a person

who has coached for several years in surrounding districts. Although bias could occur in

selecting the teacher because students and yourself know them, the better choice would be the

candidate who has already coached. The second candidate knows the sport and has the

experience. Most importantly, this is the best learning experience for our students to become

leaders themselves. Therefore, we want to cultivate an environment where students can see the

leadership and act upon it themselves.

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