Even though I spent a dozen years in the educational system, and devoted a good amount of time pursuing a master’s degree in Educational Leadership and aspired to be the next great school administrator who was going to rock the world of community stakeholders, I failed most of my attempts. James MacGregor Burns described two basic types of leadership: the transactional and transforming. Ironically, when I was an ordinary classroom teacher, long before my ambition to implement all sorts of action plans to elevate my Title I school, I exhibited more transforming leadership traits. I cared about the reasons behind the parents’ and students’ motives. My goal was no different from theirs; it was our utmost important duty to educate and shape
