Dr. Phil Piercy is currently the Principal and Chief Academic Officer at The Highland’s School, a private school for children with reading and learning differences, located in Bel Air, Maryland. At the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year, he accepted the position of part-time social studies teacher along with the position of principal and chief academic officer. Dr. Piercy’s twenty-three years of experience as a social studies teacher, and later assistant principal and then principal, made him a strong candidate to replace outgoing Executive Director. Currently, he is maintaining his Principal/Chief Academic Officer role along with teaching one class of Spanish to the high school. A theoretical understanding of Professional Learning Communities provides the sole basis for Dr. Piercy’s understanding of PLCs. He provided a definition he developed from independent study and his wife’s experience as a local public school teacher.
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Whether it is through shared leadership, such as a PLC model or through a more typical top-down hierarchy, leadership is needed to provide a structure for the vision of the educational organization. Teaching staff benefits by realizing there is a vision or plan as the organization works with students year after year. As a current staff member, it is my opinion that implementing shared leadership has the potential to improve the low morale among the teaching staff and other leaders within the school. The first step, developing a shared vision at the helm of the leadership, which constitutes three members, is critical for developing needed cohesiveness among the teachers and instructors. As a shared vision is implemented throughout the school, the benefits to the staff and students will be apparent. This vision can provide the basis for structure, even if the Professional Learning Community isn’t implemented within the
“An ongoing collaboration of a group of …show more content…
Whether it is through shared leadership, such as a PLC model or through a more typical top-down hierarchy, leadership is needed to provide a structure for the vision of the educational organization. Teaching staff benefits by realizing there is a vision or plan as the organization works with students year after year. As a current staff member, it is my opinion that implementing shared leadership has the potential to improve the low morale among the teaching staff and other leaders within the school. The first step, developing a shared vision at the helm of the leadership, which constitutes three members, is critical for developing needed cohesiveness among the teachers and instructors. As a shared vision is implemented throughout the school, the benefits to the staff and students will be apparent. This vision can provide the basis for structure, even if the Professional Learning Community isn’t implemented within the