No personal blog listed but . . .

I find it disheartening that not only was there no personal blog listed as required for this week, but instructions for how to go about this "online class meeting" were notably absent as well. I have high protection setting and I am not sure that I will be able to fully participate with class today (the 28th of July), but I won't have the opportunity to try it out because there are still no instructions or indications of how we will meet this week. Hmmm.

My current leadership in my school

I have held many leader roles in my school and actually have enjoyed most of them. During my first 3 years as a teacher, I was the Sophomore Class Advisor. THis was a leader and liaison position where I helped to direct the students to goal oriented discussions and decisions and communicated theses decisions to the appropriate powers and outside sources. I also became the advisor for a Craft Club and an Art Club. Both of these were similar in responsibilities to the class advisor, although there was considerably less liaison work.

During my second year of teaching, our school piloted the Blackboard(R) System for the school district. I quickly became a leader and "go to" person once my IT learned that I had experience with this system. I enjoyed this immensely as I love to share knowledge and help people.

During my 4th year of teaching, my principal chose me to co-lead a Tactic team to help implement our updated mission statement and vision. We lead our section of teachers in discussion of the statement and brainstormed on how to implement this vision in a palpable manner.

For the past 2-3 years, I have volunteered to participate on the textbook adoption and curriculum development committees for my district. I chose to partake in this leadership role because I wanted some say in the future of my discipline. If someone was going to tell me what to teach, then I wanted to be a "someone".

Most of these leadership roles that I have held in tenure as a teacher seem to demonstrate and support the Leadership Qualities Questionnaire Summary that identified me as a Dynamic Supportive type of leader.