Pleviak Elementary School Case Study

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Leadership at Pleviak Elementary School When it comes to Pleviak Elementary School we take leadership very seriously. I spoke with the assistant Principal at Pleviak Nikki Gardner about the leadership framework at Pleviak and at Round Lake Area School District 116. During our talk we discussed how Pleviak uses a distributed leadership framework where decision making is spread across a variety of committees. These committees are then led by a variety of teachers in the building. There are a total of eleven committees that cover a wide range of areas. We also discussed the district leadership team. It is called the School Improvement Leadership Team (SILT) that consists of three to four staff members from each building in the district and they have monthly meetings about facilitating district initiatives that will help meet the district goals.
This distributed leadership is associated to shared governance. The eleven committees allows for the administration to spread responsibilities to the staff. An example of how the district uses shared governance is the use of the SILT. One thing that the SILT has been working on this year is finding a new standards based reporting system, the two options were Mastery Connect and Skyward. The team tested …show more content…

One benefit of shared governance that I see at our school is our staff members are taking leadership roles, this empowers teachers to take ownership of how the school is being run. It also permits staff to govern without administrative micromanagement. Furthermore this strengthens the bonds of the committee leadership and the administration. One thing that shared governance brings to our school is the need for many meetings because of the eleven committees. There has been times when two committees have meetings at the same time and some of the committee members are on both committees. This causes a low turnout for said

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