Leading from the Heart:

A Principal’s Impact on
the School Community
Grand Canyon University
Lisa M Paniagua

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What are your leadership qualities?

Ethics and Accountability Servant

Fair and Moral
Professionalism and Well-being Leadership
• Lead with • Lead staff • Build • Lead by putting
ethical collaboratively relationships others first
decision-making • Set • lead with • Empower and
• Demonstrate instructional transparency, support staff
professional goals with trustworthiness with meaningful
interactions measurable and integrity guidance
outcomes

PSEL, 2015 & NASSP, n.d., Ethics for School Leaders.

Develop your Leadership Philosophy

Know your core values Lead with consistency

Practice humility and Model hope and

empathy kindness

Ritchie, 2013, pp 18-20

What are your goals?

Lead • Lead with the end in mind

Create • Create collaborative opportunities to

develop school goals and vision

Promote • Leverage strengths of staff to guide and

promote student learning
Empower students and staff

Share leadership Promote self-efficacy

Provide professional
Discover student and
and personal support
staff talents
to teachers

Northouse, 2019, pp. 227-228

Professional Norms with Staff, Families and
Community

Compassion
Transparency

Flexibility

Clear
Expectations

Calahan, 2014, pp. 4-7.

Continue to grow

Growing with your

Stay current with
staff demonstrates
educational trends,
intent to persevere
policies and laws.
and adapt
References

• Calahan, L. S. (2014). Trust Me, I’m Your Principal. Education Digest, 80(1), 4–7.
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• Ethics for School Leaders. (n.d.) National Association of Secondary School
Principals. Retrieved from: https://www.nassp.org/policyadvocacy-
center/nassp-position-statements/ethics-for-school-leaders/
• National Policy Board for Educational Administration (2015). Professional
Standards for Educational Leaders, 2015. Reston, VA: Author.
• Northouse, P.G. (2019). Leadership: Theory and Practice, 8th Ed. SAGE
Publications, Inc., pp. 227-256.
• Ritchie, J. M. (2013). The effective and reflective principal. Phi Delta
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