WRESA - WRATI

1. Aspiring Principals Institute
WRESA
September 2014

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What if:
• today you made a new professional connection that
led to your next promotion?
• today you refined a skill or disposition that
improved your professional capacity?
• today you gained confidence in your own
transformative leadership potential?
• today proved to be a crucial step in your leadership
journey?
“Starting Today”

3. 
Teacher Assistant Elementary Teacher High School
Assistant Principal
Bus Driver (CDL) Volleyball Coach School Secretary
High School Teacher Instructional Coach Middle School
Assistant Principal
Substitute Teacher Student Government
Sponsor
Middle School
Teacher
Gifted Specialist
(AIG)
K-12
Odyssey of the Mind
Coach
Elementary Principal
My Leadership Journey

4. 
Teacher Assistant Elementary Teacher High School
Assistant Principal
Bus Driver (CDL) Volleyball Coach School Secretary
High School Teacher Instructional Coach Middle School
Assistant Principal
Substitute Teacher Student Government
Sponsor
Middle School
Teacher
Gifted Specialist
(AIG)
K-12
Odyssey of the Mind
Coach
Elementary Principal
My Leadership Journey

5. 
A Look at Leadership

6. 
A Look at Leadership

7. 
A Look at Leadership
Where did I get
all of those
words from?

8. 
A Look at Leadership

9. 
A Closer Look
“The moral purpose of school leadership is
to create schools in which all students learn,
the gap between high and low performance
is greatly diminished and what students
learn will prepare them for success in their
futures, not ours.”

10. 
A Closer Look
“The work of leadership is about working
with, for and through people. It is a social
act. Whether we are discussing instructional
leadership, change leadership or leadership
as learning, people are always the medium
for the leader.”

11. 
A Closer Look
“The concept of leadership is extremely
complex…Isolating the parts of leadership
completely misses the power of the whole. It
is not just knowing what to do, but why to
do it, how to do it and when to do it.”

12. 
A Closer Look
“Leaders bring their ‘person’ to the practice
of leadership.”

13. 
Who Are Your
Critical Friends?
 The “manipulator”
story…
 It all began with an
MSA lesson on
situational leadership…

14. 
What if:
• everyday you made a new professional connection
that led to your next promotion?
• everyday you refined a skill or disposition that
improved your professional capacity?
• everyday you gained confidence in your own
transformative leadership potential?
• everyday proved to be a crucial step in your
leadership journey?
“Starting Today Everyday”

15. My Mentors…

16. 
Your Mentors?

17. 
Who We Are As Leaders
 We are in positions of influence and trust.
 We are expected to have a moral compass.
 We are modeling the expectation. (What are you
modeling?)
 We determine the ‘weather’ in our roles.

18. 
Jan King
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
jan.king@dpi.nc.gov
(828) 606-0177
Twitter @jan4tarheels
Embrace the Journey

19. 
What was it like to be NC POY?

20. 
What was it like to be NC POY?

21. 
What was it like to be NC POY?

22. 
What was it like to be NC POY?

23. 
What was it like to be NC POY?

24. 
What was it like to be NC POY?

25. 
What was it like to be NC POY?

26. 
What was it like to be NC
POY?

27. 
What was it like to be NC POY?

28. 
Leadership Journey

29. 
Jan King
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
jan.king@dpi.nc.gov
(828) 606-0177
Twitter @jan4tarheels
Embrace the Journey