🎤4🎤 Distributive Leadership "Fake Power"

I am a huge fan of the ABC television show Gray's anatomy. This show is all about a group of young residents who are going through the surgery program at Seattle Grace Mercy West hospital.

At the very top of the surgery chain is the chief underneath the chief are the attendants followed by the experienced residence and then at the very bottom are the interns.

Interns are sort of like first-year teachers the amount of responsibility and leadership opportunities they have a very limited they have to continue to grow before they can receive leadership positions.

Eventually as the intern grows he will become a resident and it one day and attending at which point his responsibilities grow. This is how I visualize distributive leadership.
As your experience grows for many intangible resident the chief begins to give you what distribute some of his responsibility however he does not do it unless you have armed it a.k.a. the reward.

In the operating room the chief in the beginning does the surgery all by himself and allows you to watch as your experience grows as your knowledge grows he rewards you for doing a good job by distributing some of the task in the surgery.

This is how I see good distributive leadership it is not the administration or the principal assigning you to be a department head or making you sit on a meaningless committee, it's literally him or her taking bits and pieces of his role and allowing other people to do it.

Transformers!

I love the original cartoon, Transformers. It was probably one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons (besides G.I. Joe). I loved the vehicles that the Auto Bots and Deciptcons drove in and I loved the way they would transform. Growing up, my Barbie Dolls were best friends with the Auto Bots and my brothers toys were allies with the Decepticons. Of course my favorite character was Optimus Prime. He was a great definition of a true leader. You never knew how Optimus came into a position of leadership, but from his demeanor, his actions, and most importantly his words, you knew he was the true leader. After watching him inspire, lead, and save the day I would feel I had the power to be do anything I wanted to. I was inspired to change the world just by a few minutes of hearing them.

Optimus Prime fit and probably invented the mold for transformational leadership. After reviewing and reading all this week, I realizing that mt leadership style that I most resemble or see myself becoming is transformational leadership. As a singer I am automatically a passionate person and that passion comes out in the classroom. As a leader I plan on showing and exhibiting that same type of passion for my faculty and my students.

Without a clear vision, people will not know how, who, or why to follow a leader. I want to be that leader that lays out and builds a great vision so that people will know the direction the school is headed in. By showing that passion for the vision, it allows my stakeholders to see that I am in invested in seeing the vision come to realization. Also when it comes to tasks and projects, I want my stakeholders to be able to not seem them as chores or just something else they have to do. I want show and exhibit such energy and enthusiasm, that it becomes almost infectious.

At my old school, my principal leads strictly by the transactional approach. I believe that he desires to want to change, but he's been in the position for so long, he would not be able to successfully change the climate of the school. While THS is a great school with decent scores, I'm afraid they will never increase exponentially until he changes his leadership style.