Sunshine Elementary School Case Study

Guidelines To Facilitate Leadership And Peacemaking At Sunshine Elementary School

Introduction

“Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow” (Kouzes and Posner, p. 30). Over the past two years, Sunshine Elementary School has experienced an extremely high turnover rate. To reduce and improve past destruction, staff will learn to model the way by demonstrating the values set forth by myself. The values are the standard that will assist in the development of an organization filled with a variety of leadership that will create an atmosphere of a superb leadership growth school wide. Sunshine Elementary School (SES) is the pilot for this leadership development blueprint for Pflugerville Independent

People describe their personal-best leadership experiences as times when they imagined an exciting, highly attractive future for their organizations” (Kouzes and Posner, p. 17). Through leadership development, SES staff will uncover that life occurs with or without him or her, nevertheless we are here as a disciple for one another. Discovering this will produce a staff with a shared vision of serving one another to achieve explicit education and ministry for the students. This is the commission from Jesus when he stated, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” (Matthew 28:19,

19). At Sunshine Elementary School, I propose that the staff set aside monies raised in a special fundraiser each year to have a three day, two night bonding escapade with current and incoming staff two weeks before the fall session begins. By implementing this, I become in agreement with Kouzes &Posner (2012) in stating that, “Leaders venture out; they do not sit idly by waiting for fate to smile on them” (p. 19). The lessons obtained through the Kouzes and Posner (2010), “The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership” are invaluable and will assist in creating an environment where conflicts are minimal and the high turnover rate has ceased to exist (p. 17-28). Throughout this unknown process mistakes are probable, however, being conscious of how to communicate what went wrong and sharing ideas of improved solutions is key to this