{"id":290,"date":"2018-11-29T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/?p=290"},"modified":"2018-11-28T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T02:23:37","slug":"response-to-ryan-morrows-leadership-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/2018\/11\/29\/response-to-ryan-morrows-leadership-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Ryan Morrow&#8217;s Leadership Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zHKmNwZAwA\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/2018\/11\/25\/leadership-story\/\">Leadership Story<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Leadership Story&#8221; &#8212; Ryan Morrow\" src=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/2018\/11\/25\/leadership-story\/embed\/#?secret=yKlDgWj3Ky#?secret=zHKmNwZAwA\" data-secret=\"zHKmNwZAwA\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ryan, from listening to your short story on leadership it is no surprise that you are well-liked and respected by your students. I appreciated your reflections on leadership, especially your own awareness of where you feel you would bring the most impact in terms of teaching effectiveness in different age groups.<\/p>\n<p>Your story about Jon and his struggles in the classroom that you definitely care about your students, want them to succeed, and hope for them to become well-rounded people who do more than just get good grades in your class. The fact that you have conversations with you students to the point where you know their family situation and what they do in their time away from the classroom shows a real desire to impact each student individually and do more than just teach them the required material.<\/p>\n<p>How you saw Jon thrive in a situation outside of the classroom was obviously quite eye-opening for you. As a leader, I know how it feels to see someone you had underestimated or written off perform in a way that you just didn&#8217;t think was possible. Because Jon was in this environment that was familiar to him, he had his moment to shine and was able to encourage his classmates to be re-engaged, be committed to the work, and persevere until it was done.<\/p>\n<p>Your story makes me think of the times when, as a leader, I&#8217;ve focused on the task which needs to be accomplished and not the people I&#8217;m called to lead. We have developed so much great understanding in this course related to leadership but in this case I&#8217;m encouraged to go back to the fundamental definition of leadership itself.\u00a0\u201cLeadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal\u201d (Northouse, 2018, p. 5) How easy it is to be focused on the goal and not the individuals!<\/p>\n<p>Jon&#8217;s story obviously had impact on you beyond that one event. It has helped to shape you to be a better leader, a better teacher, a better influence in the lives of students around you. In your role as principal, teachers and students for many years are being impacted because of your attention to Jon as an individual under your leadership, not only as a student who needed to learn the material.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference<br \/>\n<\/strong>Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: Theory and Practice, Eighth Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership Story Ryan, from listening to your short story on leadership it is no surprise that you are well-liked and respected by your students. I appreciated your reflections on leadership, especially your own awareness of where you feel you would bring the most impact in terms of teaching effectiveness in different age groups. Your story &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/2018\/11\/29\/response-to-ryan-morrows-leadership-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Response to Ryan Morrow&#8217;s Leadership Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-leadership-story","category-unit-10-ldrs500"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}