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According to the Anchorage School Districts mission statement "Educating all students for Success in Life" (ASD, 2024, para. 1), their promise to everyone is that they will prepare all students, regardless their background, to have the ability as adults to be successful. The Anchorage School District serves a plentitude of students with rich cultural diversity and with their statement they are promising to be aware of this diversity and ensure through the awareness to teach all students according to their cultural needs as well as their abilities. To accomplish this, the District needs to ensure that they are aware of all the differing cultural needs of all the culture groups they are serving, as well as be aware of their learning needs. It is therefore important for the District to set common attainable goals that ensures every student is able to meet the goals. Including all the languages and cultures of the community in our education by incorporating them into the educational institutions within the city is a way that the mission statement could be accomplished. Incorporating cultural traditions within the schools as well as cultural events within schools and the community will help bring awareness throughout the community and inclusion. Also, being culturally aware will lead students to become global citizens and therefore enabling students to succeed. Giving them abilities such as multiple language knowledge, understanding cultural differences and embracing them, will open doors for students everywhere. The mission statement is feasible to achieve as long as teachers are also are aware of the cultural differences and have the knowledge necessary to teach these differences and languages. Cultural awareness can be taught with Professional development training, however, teaching the language can become more difficult. Finding qualified teachers who also speak the foreign language is not as easy to accomplish. Anchorage School District (2024), Our Mission. Retrieved from https://www.asdk12.org/aboutasd/#:~:text=Our%20Mission %3A,Attainable%2C%20Realistic%2C%20and%20Timely.
Week 2: Discussion Qyestion 1: Instructional leadership means that I am open to collaborative leadership with teachers to meet academic goals. This to me is kind of like the saying it takes a community to raise a child, which I very much believe in. As kids this was the case for us, growing up in a very small village (approx. 1500 people) where everyone knew everyone and the whole town watched what the kids were doing. We were always held accountable for our actions, not only by parents and family but by the people in town. If anyone seen us do something that was not respectable and right, we could be sure that our family would know before we were back home and were greeted with the consequences. As an instructional leader, one too looks to the community to lead and teach, thus making everyone within the school responsible for the outcome. Therefore, as stated by Glickman, Gordon and Ross-Gordon: “Communal supervision involves all professionals in the school community accepting moral responsibility for improving instruction in order to improve learning for all students.“ (Glickman, C. D., Gordon, S. P., & Ross-Gordon, J. M., 2017, p. 10). Leadership roles within the school community should be shared and each and everyone holds a certain degree of responsibility. This may be within the whole school, with own classroom or other teachers classroom or any other functions within the school. Instructional leaders ensure the availability of resources, least amount of distractions, evaluation of teachers, monitoring lessons, and managing of curriculum and holding teachers accountable. Instructional leaders ensure intructional goals for academic achievement and ensure behavioral norms are met. Instructional leaders should build relationships, develop a school culture that advocates for students, set high expectations and be supportive. Most of all though, Instructional leaders should share leadership because „the supervisor who shares leadership understands that knowledge and skills to improve instruction are distributed throughout the school community“ (Glickman, C. D., Gordon, S.
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