Written Assignment 3
by
Ewing Coleman Green
EDD 9100L CRN 35777
Leadership
Nova Southeastern University
March 20, 2013
Leadyourship
Leadership
 Leadership can be thought of as captaining a ship
 Lead…your…ship (pronounced “lead-yer-ship”)
 The process of influencing others to achieve
organizational objectives (Northouse, 2012)
Therefore…
 Extraordinary leadership involves people
achieving extraordinary results
Leadership as an influence
process requires…
 Vision
 Mental model of ideal future state (Northouse, 2012)
 View of what we can become (Clawson, 2012)
 Desirable destination, a beckoning summit (Kouzes &
Posner, 2007)
Knowing both
 Where we are, our current situation, or our port
 Where want to be, or our destination
Leadership is…
 Personal
 Involving matters of style and traits
Autocratic
Democratic
 Being ethical
Yes
No
 Providing direction
 Providing support
 Avoiding and managing obstacles
 Dealing with challenges
How does a leader juggle all
this?
Shanghai American School (SAS)
 Political Environment
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Turnover at the top
Stability at the second and third levels
Strong focus on mission
Middle School structured around LT and PLCs
Highly distributed leadership model
Collaboration is the norm
Policies developed by Admin, some Faculty Council
influence
SAS (cont’d)
 Communication
 Email-based
 LT-PLC coordination
 Wednesday after school staff meetings
 Decision making
 Participative between LT, PLCs, and staff
 Data and research-based
 Technology
 1:1 school, Wi-Fi based
 Blogs, wikis, Moodle, iWebs
 Student ePortfolio under development
Management vs Leadership
 Bureaucracy vs Infocracy (Clawson, 2012)
 Management involves structuring and allocation of
resources
 Leadership includes mission and vision development,
and management responsibilities
Leader
Manager
School mission team
PLC coordinator
Assessment task force
21st century learning
LT member
SBR transition
Differentiation team
Professional Development
ePortfolio team
Self
Consider
Continua vs. Absolutes
 Democratic
Autocratic
 Participative
Directive
 Introvert
Extrovert
 Task
Relationship
 Flow
Conflict
 Collaborative
Out-group behavior
 Group forming
Group performing(Smith,
2005)
Balance
 Process and People
Teamwork
 Model and structure collaboration
VABEs
 Values, Assumptions, Beliefs, and Expectations
 The leader’s and others’
Clawson, 2012, p. 32
Flow
Kouzes & Posner, 2007, p. 211
Clawson, 2012, p. 171
Leadership is about…
 “managing energy, first in
yourself and then in those
around you”
Clawson, 2012, p. 3
Celebrate!
…and then on to the next opportunity!!
References
 Clawson, J. G. (2012). Level three leadership: Getting below the surface
(5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
 Kouzes, J., & Posner, B. (2007). The leadership challenge (4th ed.). San
Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
 Northouse, P. G. (2012). Introduction to leadership (2nd ed.). Thousand
Oaks, CA: SAGE.
 Smith, M. K. (2005). Bruce W. Tuckman - forming, storming, norming and
performing in groups. The Encyclopaedia of Informal Education. Retrieved
from www.infed.org/thinkers/tuckman.htm
Image URLs
 Slide 2. Sailing ship. Retrieved from
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.5056513132200413&pid=15.1
 Slide 3. Captain (Love Boat). Retrieved from http://ts1.mm.bing.
net/th?id=H.4837839166310208&pid=15.1
 Slide 4. Captain and crew 1. Retrieved from
http:ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4902315250681751&pid=15.1
 Slide 4. Captain and crew 2. Retrieved from
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.5033054013228022&pid=15.1
 Slide 4. Utopia. Retrieved from
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4752910492830033&pid=15.1
Image URLs (cont’d)
 Slide 4. Bullseye. Retrieved from
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4544196593451057&pid=15.1
 Slide 5. Telescope 1. Retrieved from
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.5028973797377322&pid=15.1
 Slide 5. Binoculars. Retrieved from
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4568793875087523&pid=15.1
 Slide 6. Port. Retrieved from
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4849023272812677&pid=15.1
 Slide 6. Destination. Retrieved from
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4787192936006050&pid=15.1
Image URLs (cont’d)
 Slide 7. Autocratic. Retrieved from
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4584058162380859&pid=15.1
 Slide 7. Democratic. Retrieved from
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4885826850456411&pid=15.1
 Slide 8. Balance. Retrieved from
http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4789456382789272&pid=15.1
 Slide 8. Arrested. Retrieved from
http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4783636692010164&pid=15.1
 Slide 9. Arrow. Retrieved from
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4537264508174477&pid=15.1
Image URLs (cont’d)
 Slide 9. Compass. Retrieved from
http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4558473049735568&pid=15.1
 Slide 10. Support. Retrieved from
http://www.rbjpsy.com/assistance.htmlSlide 9. Lookout. Retrieved from
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4897522042340351&pid=15.1
 Slide 11. Lookout. Retrieved from
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4897522042340351&pid=15.1
 Slide 11. Shipwreck. Retrieved from
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4780582972098317&pid=15.1
 Slide 12. Road sign. Retrieved from
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4802362733494651&pid=15.1
Image URLs (cont’d)
 Slide 12. Questions. Retrieved from
http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4776451221030948&pid=15.1
 Slide 13. Juggler. Retrieved from
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4720814220050878&pid=15.1
 Slide 14. SAS logo. Retrieved from saschina.org
 Slide 14. Collaboration. Retrieved from
http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4633467489878072&pid=15.1
 Slide 15. MacBook. Retrieved from
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4579393838056765&pid=15.1
Image URLs (cont’d)
 Slide 18. Balance. Retrieved from
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4809359242691401&pid=15.1
 Slide 19. Skydivers. Retrieved from
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4797513739404950&pid=15.1
 Slide 19. Hands. Retrieved from
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4590264401724727&pid=15.1
 Slide 22. Lightbulbs. Retrieved from
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4629455963423569&pid=15.1
 Slide 23. Team celebration. Retrieved from
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.5012274950047519&pid=15.1
Image URLs (cont’d)
 Slide 23. Happy captain. Retrieved from
http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4750260485228034&pid=15.1