The entire Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards focus on actions/ skills that leaders should be modeling in their schools, and there is not one standard that is more important than another. Leaders should be concentrating on how to make the learning environment more effective for student learning. In this essay I will give the challenges faced in that standard and the purpose of the standards and how do they impact that educational community.
Taking a look at standard 1, a leader has to focus on creating visions and goals for students to be successful. One of the challenges I see is that a vision and goal is very important and having to create a vision and goal that can be attained by every student isn’t as easy as it sounds. Students come in all shapes, forms and fashions and as leaders we are still held accountable for their success which means that whatever goals are set they need to have great meaning for the students. Now, the stakeholders are also a part of this decision and this could lead to major disagreement but eventually compromise will be made. The purpose is so that students have something to shoot for and look to and say they have achieved something in life. Next things are for all persons involved are to model and implement the visions and goals that are set.
In standard 2, a leader must maintain a positive environment, whether it be towards others students, teachers or administrators. The struggle with this is building the culture of your school to show the positive attitudes and school pride. It all starts with once again the stakeholders getting involved and modeling how the school culture should be. Even though the focus is on the students, teachers play a big role in this culture because if there is negativity amongst teachers it will show in the learning environment.
In standard 3, a leader is held responsible for a