Situational Analysis
St Stephen’s Catholic Primary School is situated in the suburb of Algester. The suburb itself is approximately 40 minutes drive from the city and is surrounded by old and new land releases in suburbs like Calamvale, Stretton and Parkinson. St Stephen’s is currently in its eleventh year of operation and in that time has seen only two principals. In 2015, a new principal commenced at the school, after the previous foundational principal, retired. Another change to the leadership team was that of Assistant to the Principal Administration, who left to go on maternity leave for twelve months. A foundational staff member replaced her, for that period of leave. The Administration team is male dominated, with a male in the
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Class sizes range from twenty-two students, up to thirty-one students. There are nineteen classroom teachers and several support staff, who assist in the implementation of the Australian curriculum, to ensure each child reaches their potential.
The school is renown in the wider community for its many achievements. It fosters the motto “Courage, Wisdom and Faith” and encourages the students to echo these words in all that they undertake. There have been many celebrations of students in the field of sport, the arts: particularly in music and choir performances and also in academic areas of Mathematics, Science and English competitions, Writer’s Club and Tournament of the Minds. The St Stephen’s staff commit to good quality education, with particular focus on Mathematics, English and Science. Students are encouraged to be responsible for their educational journey, through the use of visible learning documentation and effective feedback provided by the teachers.
The purpose of this assignment is to explore how the leadership team at St Stephen’s can be improved. This exploration will be structured under the following three headings; Lack of Organisation and Communication Effects Credibility and Deficiency of Unity, Hinders Relationships. The concluding paragraph will aim to highlight how the Administration team at St Stephen’s Primary School can lead the staff and students in an authentic,
give a holistic view of the entire leadership process and clearly demonstrates how important it is
The aim of this assignment is firstly to evaluate the current leadership of Ms. J by analyzing and evaluating Ms. J’s leadership style alongside leadership concepts and theories that are relevant to the context in which Ms.
A follow up to last week's announcement that Our Lady of Fatima School has a location set in Lansing and is looking for both donations and registrations. While the former is needed, the latter is what is necessary for our school to move forward. It makes little sense for us to create a school when the demand does not warrant its existence. With that in mind, if your family is interested in registering for the 2017-2018 school year, please do so as soon as possible.
Because of the principal’s silence, Mr. Jones did not demonstrate a balance on his task of managing the day to day to ensure the efficiency of the operations of the school. Also, he did not achieve the task of enabling or removing obstacles that the learning community encounters to continue the learning process. Even yet, when he decided to inform his faculty he should have act as the leader that he was supposed to be. He was not a successful leader, but just a manager when he did not motivate or create synergy between them. As a team, brainstorm ideas on how to challenge the school consolidation, could have been achieved.
The purpose of this paragraph is to inform you about how Saint Thomas More became the school it is today. On August 30th, 1957, Bishop Bernard J. Topel named Fr. Paul A. Wenning the very first pastor at a new parish in Spokane. That parish was Saint Thomas More. All of STM’s first masses were held at Lynnwood Elementary School, because there was no church yet. There was a three phase plan in the making - to build a church, a rectory, and a four classroom grade school - with the groundbreaking in March 1958. Four years later, in March of 1962, when the rectory was finished, construction on the school began and was ready for students by September. In the beginning, STM only had grades 5-8, with a combined 7th and 8th grade taught by Sr. Bigitta,
They have had three principals in the past six years. Which is huge and clearly there had to of been an issue when it came to that. Academic testing such as the PARCC test scores are extremely low. They have zero kids exceed and barely any kids even meeting the expectations. So I could expect maybe the kids to be a little troubled when it comes to test taking. This probably is detrimental to the school because I feel like a lot of people look at schools based these test scores. I think the school will be like a pretty average elementary school. I feel like there really does not seem like there is a whole lot wrong besides the test scores, and principal retention rate which both really stuck out to me a something that is an issue but that could be fixed.
Like leadership turnover in other professions, turnover rates at more challenging schools are on the higher end of that spectrum (Beteille, Kalogrides and Loeb 2011, Boyd, et al. 2008, Clark, Martorell and Rockoff 2009). For instance, large, urban districts have similar turnover rates: Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) is 22%, Milwaukee is 20%, San Francisco 26%, and New York City is 24% (Beteille, Kalogrides and Loeb 2011, Boyd, et al. 2008, Clark, Martorell and Rockoff 2009). However, within MDCPS, the turnover rate is higher for the district’s highest-poverty schools (28%), versus lowest-poverty schools (18%) (Beteille, Kalogrides and Loeb 2011). New York City school findings were similar (Clark, Martorell and Rockoff 2009). Low-performing, low-SES schools that lose an effective principal, often struggle due to having a replacement that is less-experienced and less-effective (Beteille, Kalogrides and Loeb 2011, Branch, Hanushek and Rivkin 2012).
In this assignment, leadership will be defined and analysed, then explore different approaches and traits to leadership and its importance in the context of Social housing specifically referencing Cardiff community Housing Associations as case study and then summarise with conclusion.
According to the author in the introduction of the book, this work was basically intended to serve as a guide for developing moral leadership in schools geared toward superintendents, supervisors, principals, and any other persons at the upper levels of school management. The author's design was to provoke thoughts and raise questions in the minds of these people to help them analyze the leadership processes in their schools and help them make adjustments to the leadership process that will in the end reduce the need for "direct" leadership in favor of "moral" leadership. He
I have got my formal education at Colegio Pio XII a private Christian school in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The school was funded by American nuns so every morning before the lessons start we used to pray in English. I have spent twelve years there and it felt as my second house. I knew everyone there, from coordinators to cleaners.
Marzano, McNulty and Waters propose five steps for a plan of effective school leadership. The first step is developing a leadership team with purpose. The definition used for a purposeful community is one with the collective efficacy and capability to develop and use assets to accomplish goals that mater to all community members through agreed-upon process (Marzano, et. al, 2005). The second step is distributing some responsibilities throughout the leadership team. The third step is to select the right work. The fourth step is to identify the order of magnitude implied by the selected work. The last step is to match the management style to the order of magnitude of the change initiative. The last step incorporates whether this is first or second order change.
Within this assignment I will describe my understanding of the links between management and leadership, the skills and styles of management and leadership, the application of management and leadership theories in an organisational context and planning for the development of management and leadership skills.
Leadership has been described as “a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task”. In the case study Josh Martin uses much different leadership techniques than Tom Saunders which, in summary, can be seen as a quite different style. In the book ‘Management’ leadership is discussed in relation to management. ”Management and
Throughout this assignment a discussion will take place into the theories of leadership, whilst examining the role of managers within the context of the early years. A series of management competences will be evaluated, whilst investigating the notions of leadership and collaboration.
Class size is a very popular topic that is greatly research through out educational settings. Class size deals with how many students are in the classroom at once. Class size can vary greatly. It can depended on the location of the school, where the more rural areas have only one high school while in a city environment there could be twenty-three high schools in one area. Location also depends on the amount of population in that area. Class size also can depend on the level of schooling. Such as in a major university there could be two hundred students in one class, while in a local elementary school there is only eighteen students in one class. Class size can depend on what kind of class is being taught. In