Competency Review Reflection

As I began to review all of the activities that I had participated in this past nine months I began to see that everything that I do daily in my position relates to the 10 competencies. BUT the real learning happens when as a leader you are cognitive of the expectations and make a tangible effort to achieve these high standards daily that are listed as the competencies.  I have really transition to seeing the forest and the trees this past nine months and find that I am so aware of how what I do on my campus and how it affects the district. I take for granted this new perspective and have caught myself wondering why other campus leaders have not thought about the bigger picture when making campus level choices.  I become so in line with all of the other campuses with procedures, practices, expectations, rules, curriculum, and things that are important for us all to have in common as a district.  For example, I had a student who was bitten by several mosquitos waiting for the bus. I knew with the confirmation of the west nile virus in our county that the district needed to set forth practices for communicating with the community how we are addressing it and what are the protocols for allowing students to bring OFF to school.  I alerted district officials and within hours we had the county out to spray and had a regular schedule for this established and a district procedure for OFF.  We also sent out informative flyers to parents via our web site and public posting areas.  Never before would I have seen this as a big picture issue. I would have taken care of my campus and stayed in own little world.