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Steve Sassman: Leading from the Middle


 * 1) Don't forget the basics in your job, it where you start everyday, it is where your leadership comes from.
 * 2) Spheres of Influence- you are in the middle....who do you want to influence the most?
 * 3) administrators
 * 4) teachers
 * 5) students
 * 6) Is modeling important? YES!
 * 7) Leadership- good and bad leaders
 * 8) Negative Leadership traits- peer pressure, controlling, infectious, pessimistic, dishonest, inconsistent
 * 9) Positive Leadership traits- effective communicator, encouraging, being open to criticism, consistent, honest, know their own strengths
 * 10) What makes a great teacher?
 * 11) Communication
 * 12) Content Knowledge
 * 13) Options
 * 14) Definition of Motivation: the feeling or desire to DO something
 * 15) "I get more in life by helping people get what they want than by helping myself get what I want" [|James Stronge]
 * 16) Sources of Power-
 * 17) Obey--> (Coercive)-->Big Stick
 * 18) Get--> (Rewards)-->Carrot
 * 19) Respect--> (Title/Position)--> Title
 * 20) Cooperate--> (Charisma)-->Rapport
 * 21) Know--> (Knowledge)--> Book Expert
 * 22) Charisma- drawing people in, very powerful!
 * 23) Eye Movements: when you ask a question
 * 24) Look up- accessing information from visual memory
 * 25) middle area- accessing sounds/auditory
 * 26) Down- accessing feeling
 * 27) Left- accessing from memory
 * 28) Right- constructing a story/memory
 * 29) [|Improving Relationships Withing the Schoolhouse]good article....how does the faulty function.
 * 30) Books:
 * 31) Leadership 101
 * 32) Primal Leadership
 * 33) Bringing out the Best in People