This week I found the leadership topic making me reflect not only on strong leaders in my life, but on my own leadership qualities. Reading others blogs opened my eyes to the reading in new ways and made me think about leadership from a multitude of perspectives.
My blog this week reflected mainly on my leadership qualities of moral purpose and relationship building in terms of a special education teacher. I think this was a new perspective to many people because it seemed to have an impact on many of my peer’s learning. Tristan, Jule, and Gerald both shared how it was good to hear about leadership through a special education teacher perspective. Josie and Jim both connected with the moral purpose that I shared, “What is best for kids?” I read Sarah’s blog this week and was moved by the amount of different leadership qualities she shared and how well they aligned with one another. What she seemed to lack was actual implementation of the qualities, so I shared a website with her that gave some in-practice examples. http://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/ed-leadership/5-school-leadership-qualities-every-teacher-possess/ Jule shared a fascinating image about how a leader helps with the process versus just telling a team what to do. She reflected on her strengths of moral purpose, relationship building, and understanding the change process. She mentioned feeling a lack of confidence in knowledge creation and sharing, I provided her encouragement in this. Her blogs weekly always seem to have great ideas about making a 21st century classroom and this is valuable knowledge to share with peers. Larissa shared how critical it is for a leader to have a strong moral purpose to be a great leader. She talks about how some of the components carry more weight than others. Without moral purpose, she talks about how a leader would have a difficult time staying on a straight and narrow path. I told Larissa that I agree that moral purpose is very important for a leader and it drives the rest of the components.
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