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= **EDST 499S** =

**2010 Summer Institute**
July 12 – 16, 2010 1:00 – 4:00pm
 * Instructor: John Parry**

**Building and Maintaining Relationships for Effective School Leadership**
The skill in maintaining and nurturing positive relationships with all stakeholders is a vital attribute of successful educational leaders. An atmosphere of honesty, trust, and caring is an essential component of an effective school. Administrators work with students, teachers, parents, the community, district staff, and other support agencies. This seminar will describe "best practice" in developing and maintaining positive relationships. It will explore the role of the principal, and will investigate the required knowledge, skills and attributes that are necessary to understand and respond to the unique needs of each of these groups as well as seeing the big picture in terms of the school as a whole.

Course Objectives: The student will be able to describe and recognize the factors pertaining to positive school relationships including: • Identification of all stakeholder groups • Knowledge of ‘best practices’ as practiced by school administrators • Skills required to maintain excellent relationships • Barriers to establishing relationships • Recognize the influence that past experience brings to the task

Course Assignments: • Course Resource Kit – Collection of examples of ‘best practice’ demonstrating connections to research and insightful understanding of school relationships • Class participation: attendance, insightful participation in discussions on ideas gleaned from readings, questions, reflections on own practice, peer and others • Completion of readings as distributed in class

Evaluation and Grading: This is a pass/fail course based upon: 40% participation 60% Course Reading - Resource Kit Students are expected to participate fully in all aspects of the course.