Participatory Leadership

While completing these surveys, I learned an immense amount about who I am as a person, which will help me become a better leader. The common theme across majority of the surveys was that my leadership style is participative and I am an extraverted person that is motivated by self actualization. Knowing that my main style of leadership is participatory, I am going to use that to my advantage to encourage teachers and other staff members to become leaders. Being a school leader, there is an overwhelming amount of tasks that need to be completed, therefore creating and working with a leadership team will ensure that tasks are successfully completed. Also, encouraging teachers to become leaders for their grade level will create more support for teachers throughout the entire school. This will give teachers an opportunity to learn from each other rather than going straight to administration for their needs. While developing teacher leaders, I will also use my participatory leadership style to create collaborative team meetings. I plan to have my staff engage in collaborative meetings focused on data, curriculum, and planning. My leadership staff, as well as myself, will be involved in these meetings in order to understand what is going on and to provide guidance on what steps should be taken. Being involved in

I try and stay in control of my duties and tend to not ask help from others. Knowing this, I will develop a system that breaks down tasks and delegates duties to instructional leaders. There is a substantial amount of tasks that an administrator has to do in order for the school day to run smoothly. Administrators can get easily distracted from an instructional focus because of paper work and student behaviors; therefore allowing others to have some of the responsibilities will allow instruction and teacher performance to be my