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= Standard Seven: Micro-political Leadership  = //School executives will build systems and relationships that utilize the staff’s diversity, encourage constructive ideological conflict in order to leverage staff expertise, power and influence in order to realize the school’s vision for success. The executive will also creatively employ an awareness of staff’s professional needs, issues, and interests to build cohesion and to facilitate distributed governance and shared decision-making//.

Growth Over Time


Related Coursework & Trainings

 * Internship Project / "Problem of Practice"
 * Community Internship & Summer 2011 coursework
 * Distinguished Leadership in Practice assignment: "Creating a Strong Internal and External Stakeholder Focus"
 * Facilitative Leadership
 * High school turnaround case study
 * Internship site assets video
 * Llano Grande Digital Storytelling workshop
 * Social Justice workshop

7A. School Executive Micro-Political Leadership
The school executive develops systems and relationships to leverage staff expertise and influence the school's identity, culture, and performance.

Selected Experiences & Artifacts
//Fostering Staff Leadership:// At A.B. Combs, leadership is distributed throughout the staff, as a core belief is that everyone has unique gifts and talents to share, and in order to be an exceptional school, we must maximize these. The staff handbook requires all teachers to serve on a committee, and teachers serve in many other leadership positions, as well. Some of these include mentoring beginning teachers, mentoring student teachers, planning and executing events such as the Inaugural Ball (picture below), Chinese Culture Day (picture below), Leadership Days, LEGO Innovation Day, and Read Across America Week. We have many assets at A.B. Combs, and our staff and students top the list. 

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