Revisting Educational Platforms

SUPERINTENDENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM TASK - REVISITED

Post Program

Education is forever changing, and you are forever changing. An educational leader must have a foundation upon which to anchor and grow. This foundation is built from one’s personal belief system and one’s professional profile (knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors). This activity is to help you reflect on and articulate your personal belief system as a Superintendent.

Belief system + Professional profile = Educational Platform

Directions

Please revisit your Pre-Orientation Session Educational Platform Statements. Revise them, as you deem necessary to reflect your current beliefs. Compare your revised responses with your Pre-Orientation Session Educational Platform Statement responses. Submit copies to the college faculty, program administrator, and team faculty at least one week prior to your scheduled associate/faculty critique. Be prepared to discuss the differences with the team faculty.

You may spend as little or as much time on the task as you deem appropriate.

This task is about you. Respond to each platform in your own words, based upon your own, current beliefs. Write to reflect what you believe about the Superintendency. Focus your remarks on characteristics, such as leadership, power, responsibility, control, predictability, ethics, fairness, communication, vision, risk, diversity, etc.

Educational Platforms

The Superintendent and Instructional Leadership

Roles--The Superintendent and the School Board

School Finance and the Superintendent

Strategic Leadership: The Superintendent’s Role

Personnel Management from the Superintendent’s Perspective

The Superintendent’s Personal Life

Organizational Leadership of the Superintendent

The Teachers’ Association and the Superintendent

The Superintendent and Political Leadership

Other platforms of your choice related to the superintendency

REMINDER:

Revisit and revise your Educational Platform Statements, and provide a copy to your team faculty members, at least one week prior to your scheduled associate/faculty critique. Compare your revised responses with your Pre-Orientation Session Educational Platform Statement responses. Come prepared to discuss the differences with the team faculty.