Personal Narrative: An Interview With An Administrator

I interviewed an individual who has a variety of experience as an administrator. This individual has worked with both high school and middle school students as either a Principal, Assistant Principal or Athletic Director. He has also provided support to elementary staff and students when needed.
Some key points that I achieved from the interview is that regardless of how organized and precise your schedule seems to be, you must have flexibility within your schedule. Along with flexibility, also comes the strength of multi-tasking. As a leader, he communicated how it is important to stay organized and keep a running checklist. The checklist, is a life-saving tool that he relies on when he is out and about walking the halls. During these moments, he seems to be walking the halls, but really he is accomplishing multiple tasks with students and staff.
Through positive relationships, I will be able to reach out and gain trust from the staff, along with staff members building trust with each other. This will help to create an environment where staff can professionally help each other through the minor day to day challenges and provide them opportunities where they can problem solve for themselves and each other. I will also use data to support my thinking so that staff members can have a visual of how I am leading the district. In hopes, this will help me be able to spend less time on quality control and more time on teacher capacity and student achievement. I will make time and find ways to utilize staff member’s strengths within the building to help lead and monitor daily data, test achievements, district goals and so forth. After the staff members are able to compile great deals of information, this will allow for me to have time to look at the big picture of the district and make the necessary decisions as I see