D016 LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS AND
ETHICS STUDY GUIDE NOTES FROM
READING AND VEDIOS WESTERN
GOVERNORS’ UNIVERSITY
, lOMoAR cPSD| 19857451
1
Leadership Foundations and Ethics
D016
Study Guide for the Objective Assessment
Unit 1 – Introduction – N/A
Unit 2 – Building Inclusive Culture and Community
Module 1: Mission, Vision, and Core Values
1. Definition, compare/contrast, and role within school
- Mission Statement – attempt to articulate the purpose of why schools exist and are
foundational to future success of societies. a sentence or short paragraph written to
reflect the school’s core purpose, identity, values, and principal aims.
- Vision Statement - must fit the given situation of your building. Defined as a
sentence or short paragraph a broad, aspirational image of the future.
- Core Values – beliefs and learning expectations should shape the culture and
determine the priorities of the school/center, and serve as the guiding force behind
decision-making related to curriculum, instruction, assessment, policies, and
procedures.
2. Evidence and Impact of Mission, Vision, and Core Values
3. Internal Stakeholders of Mission, Vision, and Core Values: Leadership, Teachers, Staff,
Students
4. External Stakeholders of Mission, Vision, and Core Values: Parents, Board, Businesses,
community members.
Module 2: Building Community
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1. Conversational Leadership – Define, Six Processes and examples
2. Define and discuss role of each in building community
- Trust, generates buy in from teachers staff and community
- Transparency, Generates trust, when stakeholders know why you are doing things
they can trust your motivations
- Inclusion, by incorporating all students in to the classroom all students benefit.
3. Four components of cultivating a positive professional culture
a. Promoting Trust
b. Establishing a growth-oriented professional culture
c. demonstrating a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
d. Cultivating emotional intelligence
4. Define and consider within education:
- Open systems: a system influenced by external forces, Schools are influenced by TEA,
Board decisions, Parents, Community leaders and politics.
- Closed systems: a system free from external forces, Impossible from a school stand
point as we have external stakeholders that influence
- Social systems the school is characterized by an interdependence of parts, a clearly
defined population, differentiation from its environment and a complex network of
social relationships
5. Feedback loops – definition and example in practice
- Internal feedback loops, INternal feedback loops are when the output influences the
product. Ex. the school bureaucracy approves of an individual’s performance,
ETHICS STUDY GUIDE NOTES FROM
READING AND VEDIOS WESTERN
GOVERNORS’ UNIVERSITY
, lOMoAR cPSD| 19857451
1
Leadership Foundations and Ethics
D016
Study Guide for the Objective Assessment
Unit 1 – Introduction – N/A
Unit 2 – Building Inclusive Culture and Community
Module 1: Mission, Vision, and Core Values
1. Definition, compare/contrast, and role within school
- Mission Statement – attempt to articulate the purpose of why schools exist and are
foundational to future success of societies. a sentence or short paragraph written to
reflect the school’s core purpose, identity, values, and principal aims.
- Vision Statement - must fit the given situation of your building. Defined as a
sentence or short paragraph a broad, aspirational image of the future.
- Core Values – beliefs and learning expectations should shape the culture and
determine the priorities of the school/center, and serve as the guiding force behind
decision-making related to curriculum, instruction, assessment, policies, and
procedures.
2. Evidence and Impact of Mission, Vision, and Core Values
3. Internal Stakeholders of Mission, Vision, and Core Values: Leadership, Teachers, Staff,
Students
4. External Stakeholders of Mission, Vision, and Core Values: Parents, Board, Businesses,
community members.
Module 2: Building Community
, lOMoAR cPSD| 19857451
2
1. Conversational Leadership – Define, Six Processes and examples
2. Define and discuss role of each in building community
- Trust, generates buy in from teachers staff and community
- Transparency, Generates trust, when stakeholders know why you are doing things
they can trust your motivations
- Inclusion, by incorporating all students in to the classroom all students benefit.
3. Four components of cultivating a positive professional culture
a. Promoting Trust
b. Establishing a growth-oriented professional culture
c. demonstrating a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
d. Cultivating emotional intelligence
4. Define and consider within education:
- Open systems: a system influenced by external forces, Schools are influenced by TEA,
Board decisions, Parents, Community leaders and politics.
- Closed systems: a system free from external forces, Impossible from a school stand
point as we have external stakeholders that influence
- Social systems the school is characterized by an interdependence of parts, a clearly
defined population, differentiation from its environment and a complex network of
social relationships
5. Feedback loops – definition and example in practice
- Internal feedback loops, INternal feedback loops are when the output influences the
product. Ex. the school bureaucracy approves of an individual’s performance,
