Reflective Essay On Future Focused Leadership

The third book assigned to me for my capstone leadership book is Future-focused leadership: Preparing school, students, and communities for tomorrow’s realities. This topic is an interesting topic that I do not have a lot of experience with in my time as an educator. My administration in my years of experience has been focused on the present. We have a lot of pressure of performing high on our state standardized assessment and the goals of our school have been based upon those results. As an administrator, I need to think about the future of my campus. I know the present is important, but our campus has to have a plan to evolve throughout the years like Marx states. I need to focus on the process of education and work towards a common goal …show more content…
This process will take time and I must be patient with planning and watching our goals be achieved. I must be willing to adapt and make a plan that will allow my students to achieve highly as we adjust to the ever changing world. In the first part the first major point that jumped out to me is that a great leader is a connected generalist. “Leaders in the 21st century will need to be highly adept in their specialties. At the same time, they will be expected to be generalists, eager to connect a broad range of people and ideas” (Marx, 2006, pg. 12). This quote helps shape the change in educational leadership. It’s important that we learn to broaden our horizons as leaders for our students and be able to help students in different areas. As leaders we must continue to develop our environment and make it a place for everyone to feel safe and give them the optimal opportunity to achieve to their highest level. “Today’s complex challenges require resilient problem-solvers who are comfortable wearing multiple hats” (Low, 2014, pg. 20). We have to wear multiple hats as leaders of the future. It’s important that we possess many traits of quality leadership to be