Leadership Team Qustionnaire and Teacher Satisfaction

This entry is a riff on “Ten Self-Defeating Behaviors to Avoid” by Mark Goulston applied to school leadership. If you’re on a leadership team and your team is guilty of these behaviors, change now. If you’re a teacher and your school’s leadership team is guilty of these behaviors—find another school before your career becomes a variation on Sisyphus. Your career curve and mental health may well depend on how you answer these questions. Is your school leadership team guilty of lousy leadership? Do they think their indispensable? talk over teachers? not listen to teachers? micromanage teachers? embrace the latest educational fad without even reading the book? speak in educationese? are afraid to fire the real awful teachers? fear confrontation? fail to get buy-in? take attendance at every meeting? solicit input, but don’t consider it? take programs because programs mean more money? blame teachers, parents, students? restrict access to opportunities to their “pet favorites”? use other people to enforce their rules? selectively enforce their rules? To add to the list post a comment.