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**__Micro-political Leadership__** // School executives will build systems and relationships that utilize the staff’s diversity, encourage constructive ideological conflict in order to leverage staff expertise, power and influence in order to realize the school’s vision for success. The executive will also creatively employ an awareness of staff’s professional needs, issues, and interests to build cohesion and to facilitate distributed governance and shared decision-making. //



**7a. School Executive Micro-political Leadership** The school executive develops systems and relationships to leverage staff expertise and influence in order to affect the school’s identity, culture, and performance.


 * Weekly internship includes reflection on the ways Mr. Price leverages the expertise of faculty and staff to achieve maximum appropriate involvement, while constantly encouraging and establishing systems to develop the personal passions of all South Johnston stakeholders, fall 2011—spring 2012.
 * Internship project included investigation into the development of the school’s identity and culture, fall 2011.
 * Action research collecting interviews from South Johnston stakeholders about the school's reputation and what they perceive to be its main goals, fall 2011.
 * Reading, written discussion and wrap-around application (apply-discuss-revise-repeat) interpersonal leadership skills from How to Win Friends and Influence Peopl e (Carnegie, 1964), January-May 2011
 * 90/90/90 Schools Research, in context of data-driven decision making and utilizing every adult in the system strategies. April-May 2011

__**Example Artifacts**__

//Prezi presentation created collaboratively, presented to all incoming 9th graders during an orientation and over 150 parents during parent night.// media type="custom" key="15410336"

**Gap Analysis of Growth over Time** ** 7a: ** Schools are an interesting place. Differing personalities can be poisonous if in competition or power if in complement. At South, I’ve reflected on the ways Mr. Price purposefully plans and implements processes to ensure the latter is how business is done at the school. At the same time, I am constantly reflecting on the art of leading adults to row in the same direction.