Heady's Leadership Style

Views on Leadership: An Interview with Mr. Heady and assistant principal of curriculum and instruction observes, walk, and monitor students throughout the classroom and hallways of Nimitz Ninth Grade School, utilizing his leadership skills, to effectively manage the school as a whole, in addition to the school building’s curriculum. Mr. Heady began his career as a Science teacher, implementing effective classroom management and behavior management strategies into his classroom to sustain a positive, effective safe classroom environment. Being in the classroom for over ten years, Mr. Heady decided to advance in his career by transitioning into administration as the assistant principal of instruction.
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Heady was approached about his personal critical issues regarding leadership in education, he not only focused on his personal issues but the school’s current issues as well. When discussing Mr. Heady’s personal critical issues regarding leadership, his leadership style sort of resembles David from “A Tale of Three Kings”. In the book A Tale of Three Kings David exemplify similar characteristics of leadership to that of Mr. Heady. These characteristics that the two uses reflect favorably on the principles espoused by the Blackabys. These principles that the two uses quickly work towards their desired goal that enhances not only their self-motivation and objections, but their other leading characters as …show more content…
Referring back to the book, David is the youngest son of a shepherd such as Mr. Heady. In the book, David has been given a particular job of watching over the sheep, which then tests his leadership abilities. As the character progresses in the job, he finds that the job in itself is indeed a lonely job, but finds a way to permit time by conversing with the sheep and learning how to throw rocks. Reflecting on a critical issue David had with finding that the job he was in was a lonely one, Mr. Heady too found that his job as a Science teacher was a lonely one as well. In the book, David’s job involved an appearance before the prophet Samuel for anointing as the next king of Israel, with the inclusion of him watching over the sheep. In Mr. Heady’s current job as the assistant principal of curriculum and instruction, he has to appear not only before God, his savior, but the school building principal as well. Within David’s called job, he will reveal the interior power of God and the effect it can have on a leader as well as Mr. Heady. According to the text Spiritual Leadership, when the makings of leaders come from the innate quality of life, the media often portray leaders as unusually gifted, charismatic, physically imposing, and attractive people; giving this skewed image of leadership can lead to self-doubt on the part of many would-be leaders,