Author Archives: akaeducator

Bus Suspensions and Truancy

When students constantly disrespect or display other inappropriate behaviors on the school bus, administrators suspend the student’s bus privileges which means the student can not ride the school bus. Many times the parents will state that they have no other means of transporting the child to school so he/she will miss school. Therefore, this results [...]
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Topic #2: Legislation

The repeal of the Kings Dominion Law is one of the major pieces that is being considered in the Legislations. For the past few years, many school divisions issue a waiver to get permission to start school before labor. This waiver is submitted based on the number of days a school division has missed due [...]
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Topic #1 Penn State University

The new interim president of Penn State Univeristy, Rodney Erickson, stated that “in the future, Penn State would not only do what is required under the law, but we will do what is right.” I believe that he made this statement to establish expectations that his employees should display ethics as well as follow the [...]
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Reflection

During the winter break, I had time to reflect upon courses taken, thus far, and my leadership style and practices. I definitely utilize the Human Resource frame, and I contribute this to part of my being successful. I do believe that the students, faculty/staff, and parents feel cared about and comfortable relating to me as [...]
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Writing Class, Nov. 12, 2011

I have really benefited from the peer editing. It has allowed me to receive feedback and to read papers that have given me a different perspective on the topics. We were able to peer edit four papers from the other cohorts; however, it is hard to give feedback when only receiving an outline of a paper. After [...] Read more »

Professional Writing Class October 29, 2011

I had always considered myself to be a good writer. In my previous graduate writing classes for my masters and for my certificate of advance graduate studies degrees, I performed extremely well in the writing classes. However, this class has been somewhat challenging for me. As I reflect on the differences of these classes, I [...] Read more »

Professional Writing Class – October 15, 2011

In class yesterday, our cohort was assigned the task of reading a few pages from the Bolman and Deal text and answering some questions. I thought this would be an easy assignment. However, after reading the information and the questions I realized that it was not that simple, because I had to read for a [...] Read more »

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Writing Class – September 24, 2011

I enjoyed the writing class today. It made me get out of my comfort zone by having to type first and also having a limited about of time to create something that would be shared with my cohort. This was a challenge for me because I usually handwrite an outline and then handwrite a rough [...] Read more »

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First Class

It is has been great getting to know the people in my cohort which I have known many on a professional level. Based on the comments that were made on Saturday some are frustrated with the blogging. I believe we should blog on professional topics and not on confidential issues or the issues that could come [...] Read more »

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

  It was very interesting receiving the results of my Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. I actually chose the exact types based on the information that I had read. I am an E(7) S(25) F(3) J(47). As I stated this did not surprise me at all, but it was great to confirm what I thought. I had [...] Read more »