Conflict Management & Resolution

Conflict management and resolution needs to be a vital skill in any leader's tool bag. Often times many issues can be avoided as leaders seek to identify problems early and work toward respectful resolutions to meet the needs of all parties involved. As collaboration takes place to ensure all voices are heard and needs are met as much as possible, conflicts within professional environments can be kept to a minimum.

District Budgeting Processes

The current district I work in has an extensive budgeting process focused on site-based budgeting. As each school has a variety of programs and support services for the learners they serve, schools can be given increased autonomies through SBB to make decisions about the services and programs they offer to best meet the needs of their learners.
(SBB). "The key to a successful SBB process is to let staff closest to the instructional setting set priorities and allocate funds" (Shilling & Tomal, 2013, p.49). Leveraging SBB in the district allows school leaders to determine how their specific sites need to use the funds to provide necessary services for their learners. The SBB designations to each school are based on student enrollment numbers for each school and a preset amount is provided for each student attending a school.

Administrative Blogging For Communication

Working towards administrative licensure in educational leadership has provided me the opportunity to reflect on how school leaders can use blogging as a communication tool for their school communities. I've had a fairly broad experience with blogging over the past few years in a variety of contexts and am looking forward to spending more time back on my own blog. Finding the time to blog can be challenging given the amount of roles and responsibilities educators need to maintain on a daily basis. One of the most important components of successful blogging is finding a consistent time frame in which to construct and share thinking and learning regularly.