Leadership
Leading the Way
Proven leaders create cultures that help students thrive.
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These positions include but are not limited to:
- Principals
- Assistant Principals
- Directors
- Assistant Directors
- Executive Directors
- Administrative Interns
How Highline Leads
Lead Yourself
Self and Others
- Self-awareness, reflection and accountability
- Actively seeks out feedback from others
- Interrogates internal biases
- Holds self-accountable to outcomes
Strategic Skills
- Ability to learn and Flexibility
- Learns on the fly
- Willingly accepts and implements/adapts feedback
- Seeks other perspectives
- Ability to formulate a strategic plan and bring new ideas/initiatives to fruition
- Ability to balance conflicting demands
- Priority setting
- Time management
- Proactively seeks clarity
- Evidence of resilience and grit
Courage
- Leadership, drive, and purpose
- Demonstrates personal integrity
- Results-Driven and achieves outcomes
- Exhibit leadership stature
- Lead by example and through ongoing work
Lead Others
Self and Others
- Ability to build relationships, effective work groups and influence
- Actively seeks to connect with and understand others
- Ability to direct others, assess talent, motivate and share feedback in group settings
- Value of diversity in identity, ideas, experiences and working styles
- Able to have critical and crucial conversations to share and elicit feedback
Strategic Skills
- Managing change and ambiguity, distributive leadership
- Articulates rationale for change
- Able to adjust ongoing plans and work amidst new developments
- Able to trust instinct
Organizational Skills
- Communication skills
- Listening to others and making others feel heard
- Demonstrates strong presentation and writing skills
Operating Skills
- Ability to develop others
- Sets clear benchmarks and opportunities to discuss, adjust, and evaluate throughout project timelines
Lead Organizations
Self and Others
Management skills
- Proactively and independently managing and measuring work
Vision management and change implementation
- Ability track progress toward vision/outcomes and share progress in meaningful ways
Leading inclusive and diverse teams
- Ability to work across lines of difference including race, ethnicity, and language groups
Strategic Skills
Strategic thinking, problem solving and decision making
- Ability to strategically and systematically confront problems
Organizational Skills
Influence, organizational navigation and stewardship
- Ability to build and leverage informal networks within the organization to achieve integral outcomes
Courage
Risk taking and innovation
- Ability to operate beyond tradition in ways that align to organizational mission and outcomes
Lead Teaching & Learning
Self and Others
- Build authentic and meaningful student relationships
- Manage culture and behavior in alignment to vision
- Continuous sharing and implementation of feedback
- Leading impactful instruction that values diversity and equity
- Leverages student voice and responses to drive instruction
Courage
- Maintain high rigor
- Ability to amplify rather than simplify
Strategic Skills
- Develop and continually use data to improve teaching and learning
- Connects various points of data in meaningful ways to inform decisions
Operating Skills
- Articulate, sequence, and prioritize curriculum goals
- Demonstrates strong, logical, progressive, and aligned lesson plans and objectives
- Influence others to outcomes
- Ability to invest others in shared vision
Core Competencies
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