SELF Competencies: Represented Central Office Personal Leadership

INCLUSIVE/FACILITATIVE LEADERSHIP: Engage school community  in change efforts that respond collectively and coherently to the assets and challenges in schools and communities.

Personal Leadership

Build and maintain critical personal leadership habits.

Indicators

• Resilient leadership: Maintain a determined focus on improving student achievement, celebrating staff and students who persist in the face of challenges and adversity.

• Adaptive leadership: Remain flexible and open in the face of complexity, fostering productive disagreement and adjusting tactics as necessary to maintain commitment to and progress toward goals.

• Reflective leadership: Seek feedback, self-reflect, and adapt own leadership practice, accepting personal responsibility for mistakes and actively looking for ways to learn and improve.

• Ethical leadership: Act ethically and professionally in personal conduct, relationships with others, decision-making, stewardship of the school’s resources, and all aspects of school leadership.

Evidence of Impact

• Message about goals or possibility is consistent, especially in moments of challenge or adversity.

• Team members are  aware of and can share missteps, mistakes, tactics that were unsuccessful, and how they were used as learning opportunities.

• Team members  report that they are treated with respect and that department/program  has processes to ensure opportunities to express differing viewpoints.

• Professional development efforts include explicit work to help leaders and staff effectively manage difficult conversations.

• Leaders react to difficult moments or feedback in calm and positive ways.

• Leaders use multiple leadership stances (e.g., directive, facilitative, collaborative, and reflective) in ways that match situations and contribute to advancing conversations and work.