Campus Leadership Case Study

Theory of Practice
Campus leadership comes in various forms in the educational settings. Each administrator brings special abilities, knowledge and traits into their experiences as an administrator. Campuses across the country vary in student population, economic factors and have various community cultural norms in place. The administrator on an educational campus faces foreseen challenges and also unpredictable obstacles. As a result campus leadership must be confident in decision-making, be effective communicators, willing to accept change in today’s educational climate of high-stakes accountability and build positive relationships with teachers and students.
The job of a campus administrator includes a large amount of decision-making.

Strategies that worked in a classroom from 1996, may not work for todays student in 2015. As an administrator one must be able to adapt to change. Currently, the biggest wave of change shaped by the addition of mobile technology in the classroom. With this change in education, administrators must be willing to strategize and find ways to shape instructional strategies that reflect today’s classroom climate. Naturally, most administrators have not experienced the abundance of mobile technology in the classroom during their time in class as a teen. Today’s administrator must focus and find ways to incorporate mobile technology in the instructional

Building relationships as a campus administrator is critical to the success of a campus. Building positive working relationships with teachers, and students is critical to sustaining a community of learners. Students have to know administrator also face failure, deal with fear and are willing to share themselves with others. Campus administrators must feature many relationship strategies for teachers and students through the year to increase the relationship capacity because humans in general ten to do more for people they feel care about them as a