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Standard 7

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.

**7a. School Executive Micro-political Leadership**: The school executive develops systems and relationships to leverage staff expertise and influence in order to affect the school’s identity, culture, and performance. I NTERNSHIP EXPERIENCES RELATED READINGS
 * Attended PLCs
 * Conducted regular classroom walk-through observations
 * Participated with the School Improvement Team to solicit information from the entire staff on Food for Thought, Budget, Tardiness, Relay for Life, Title I, and Read Across America
 * Developed a positive relationship with a member of the ENCORE team who has willing provided her expertise to support school activities.
 * Led small group instruction in classrooms
 * Led a NELA informational conference with potential candidate from my school for NELA Cohort III.
 * Participated in NELA Assessment Day – reporter scenario
 * Participated in Cafeteria Duty
 * Created a Human Capital Outlay Chart to identify the staff's expertise

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">SELECTED ARTIFACTS

Inspirational e-mail to third grade and ENCORE team about lesson plans.



Teaching Reading to a Second Grade Class. <span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

Talking to a student while on cafeteria duty. <span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">