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Five Tips to Surviving Your First Year in the Principalship
IASP Fall Professionals Conference 2014
So You Think You Can Lead?
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Aimee LunsfordPrincipal, Flint Springs Elementary School
Huntington County Community School Corporation
Huntington, IN [email protected]
Follow me @Flintfalcons
Introduction
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Why 5 Tips?
Our jobs are comprised of tasks that are short in duration and rapid in
pace.An average of 50-60 of these tasks in
an hour.We balance tasks that require
diverse skills, technical capabilities, cognitive functioning and emotional
intelligence.
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#1 Be a Listener• Buy Notebooks
in Bulk
• Find a Mentor
you Trust
• Embrace the
Survey
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Find a Mentor!
• Mentors that
will be
proactive
instead of
reactive.
• Mentors that
will check in on
you when you
don’t know
which side is
up.
• Mentors in
district and out
of district.
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#2 Create a Positive Culture• Greet at all Cost
• Never
underestimate the
power of LUNCH
• Café Lunsford
• Class
Competitions
• Birthday Treats
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CLASS COMPETIO
NS
• Pumpkin
Decorating
• Door
Decorating
• Scarecrow
Decorating
Encourages
teamwork,
collaboration,
problem solving
and parent
involvement!
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#3 Communicate Well• Weekly Newsletter
• Remind 101
• Update your school
Webpage
• ANSWER/MANAGE
your emails
• Leave notes after
observations
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Weekly Newsletters do more than just update
• Tell the
week’s events.
• Set a positive
tone
• Let your
vision/culture
be known
• Say it in the
newsletter so
you don’t have
to call a
meeting
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#4 Lead with Vision• Get input from
the whole staff
“What are your
big ticket items?”
• This must have
shared
commitment
• Make it your
language
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Creating a Mission
Using a
collaborative
tool like
PADLET can
allow your staff
to all give
input,
categorize into
groups and
work to put
those items into
words that can
be
remembered.
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Flint Springs Mission
Statement
“Encouragi
ng Minds to
Grow,
Hearts to
Care and
Lives to
Share.”
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#5 Create a Community of Experts
• Grade Level Chairs
• Tech Savvy
• New Teacher Go To
Groups
• Lead PD/Communicate
Initiatives
• Empower your non-
classroom teachers
• Be an expert yourself
by studying the experts
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Study the Experts
Be the Lead
Learner and
model/share
who you study
and research to
be on the
cutting edge of
leadership!
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Don’t just take my word
for it…
Go to
Todaysmeet.c
om/IASP1stYe
ar
Tell us your
tips for
survivng the
first year of
the
principalship.