Personal Narrative: My Leadership Philosophy In Schools

My leadership philosophy would have to be Building School Community inside school and outside the school as discussed by Sergiovanni (1994). My school has been working at becoming a Professional Learning Community (PLC), but we found this summer in a training institute with the DuFours on PLC’s, we participated in, that we were not doing it correctly. My school has begun the PLC process this school year with a new focus on the true meaning of PLC, to form a community of teachers who focus on student learning, creating a collaborative culture, and are results-oriented in our thinking (Jessie, 2007). I believe this goes along with what Sergiovanni (1994) was describing about the stewardship relationships with teachers and students being unconditional