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Unravelling the Leadership Pathways to School Success This is an article that talks about what you can do to distribute leadership in schools.
 * Distributed Leadership, Teacher Morale, and Teacher Enthusiasm:**

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 * From Matt on 10/30:** Felinda, I read the study you linked and it appears interesting. Here's a quote from the discussion section of the article that may be helpful for our work, "evidence from this study highlights an existing approach to distributed leadership that builds teacher leadership capacity through their engagement in school leadership while enhancing their morale and enthusiasm." There's a tie in their between Jim O'Connor's behavior and a way to improve morale amongst teachers. :-)


 * __Tell me what you think about adding this to the team building section. I found some information about writing the vision statement and I figured we could add it in somewhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!__**

As a part of the team building experience at Hickory Ridge High School, it would be a great benefit to review the school vision statement. The vision plan is fairly new but the teachers need a common ground and writing the vision statement together will allow the new and veteran teachers to get involved and work together to make student outcomes their main priority. Working on the vision statement may lead to the teachers inspiring and motivating one another and they may find things that they have in common that may lead to a more harmonious atmosphere in the building. According to the Southwest Educational Development laboratory (1993) a vision has a way of having people work together to reach their goal of the vision. []

From Jon on 11/10 - Preparing a vision statement with the Faculty is the first step in uniting this group and giving them Ownership. Then the professional relationships are built further in the PLC's and whole faculty activiites throughout the year. Good Work!