The Importance Of Action In Advocacy

Independent advocacy is a way that allows people to make informed choices and to remain in control of their own care and needs. It supports people to access the information they need about all options available to them and allows them to make their wishes and views known. It helps to protect the rights of people that are unable to speak up for themselves. Independent advocacy may be a long term thing or only during a difficult time.

The entire Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards focus on actions/ skills that leaders should be modeling in their schools, and there is not one standard that is more important than another. Leaders should be concentrating on how to make the learning environment more effective for student learning. In this essay I will give the challenges faced in that standard and the purpose of the standards and how do they impact that educational community.

Achieving a school district’s mission and vision requires the commitment of its stakeholders. In order to involve them in the process, it is necessary for educational leaders to “motivate staff, parents, students, board and community members” (Educational Leadership Constituencies Council, 2002, p. 4). The transformational leadership theory emphasizes the importance of educational leaders acting as role-models in order to motivate and inspire the school community. This approach has the potential to involve all stakeholders, leading to increased student success (Bush, 2007). The Assistant Director of Special Education in Northwest ISD directly supervised the school district’s assessment staff. Her education, experience, and passion set an example for her subordinates, stimulating them to achieve more, leading to her promotion to Executive Director of Student Services.

Explain any ethical dilemmas that could arise during your advocacy campaign, and how you would resolve them.

Thus, Board Certification remains one of the most important measures of quality for practitioners. The public will probably continue to rely on board certification as a useful litmus test because the board has responded to public concerns and addressed them in a high-quality way. In1986, the board started to issue a “time-limited” certificate to ensured physicians maintained their knowledge of the profession during the life of their practice (Seiler, Hurwitz, 2010). Comparably, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards require National Board Certified Teachers to renew their National Board Certification every 10 years, to promote continued professional growth in the teaching profession for the length of their career. Thus every national board certified teacher must renew in their content areas. According to Nagin and Patricia (2011), specialty areas exist in the area of law that is based on “standards and created by a committee of very seasoned antitrust and trade regulation lawyers selected by the bar president. These lawyers possess broad and varied experience to practice regularly in the

After reviewing the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards and the experiences of this class, I have been able to see how the standards are used in a real-life school. Each standard goes into detail on how a teacher could incorporate them into their classroom. However, through my experiences I have noticed that some of the standards are not meant for the actual classroom. So, I will be focusing on the first standard; leadership, the third standard; teachers need to know the content they teach, and some standards that I believe should be in the NC Standards. Lastly, I will talk about how my opinion on the NC Standards has changed and how I plan to incorporate them into my future classroom.

My Northern State University (NSU) American Indian academic advisor, Lara Nelson has inspired me and encouraged me for the two years of my collegiate career to be extremely involved and active in leadership roles. She is the leader of the Native American Student Association at NSU as well, and has encouraged me to be an active participant in the association and consequently, I was elected as the treasurer of the association in September 2016 and I also serve as student advisor on the NSU American Indian Advisory Committee which serves under the direction of the university’s Provost. In these positions, it is necessary for me to communicate and organize so that we can fulfill the organizations goals. We have been instrumental in helping shape

Politicians are great with their words, they'll have you agreeing with them, when you should be disagreeing.

Reading Chapter 7, Taking Action, helped me to better understand the ways in which perceptual processes such as ones that are being physically active in the world. Through most of the 20th century, the dominant way perception research was carried out was by having stationary observer look at static stimuli in a laboratory situation. Gibson argued that this traditional way of studying perception lacked ecological validity. Ecological perception is defined as a valid experiment that matches its stimuli, conditions, and procedures to those present in the natural world. There are three separate optic flows including: gradient of flow, focus of expansion, and self-produced information. Gradient of flow is the difference in flow as a function of distance from the observer. Focus of expansion is the point in distance where

Cronkhite’s (2013, p. 298) principles of public service ethics, which includes “public service, objective judgement, accountability, democratic leadership, and responsibility,” are well covered in this statement. This statement was well researched and any agency looking to develop one or wanting change should contact them.

Dedicated student organizations, similar to Women’s groups were developed to advocate for the the needs of these populations and voicing their opinions and concerns.

I believe that history does impact the development of present day advocacy efforts in a significant way. According to Meyers, efforts to protect children from abuse and neglect dates back to the colonial times. Through individual advocates and organized parties many great events related to children’s rights came about over the years. Some of these events include minimum age laws for factory work, day nurseries for low income wives and widows, orphan trains, the first white house conference, the Children’s Bureau, The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, and more recently in 2011 rights protected under the first amendment were extended to children.

Marzano, McNulty and Waters propose five steps for a plan of effective school leadership. The first step is developing a leadership team with purpose. The definition used for a purposeful community is one with the collective efficacy and capability to develop and use assets to accomplish goals that mater to all community members through agreed-upon process (Marzano, et. al, 2005). The second step is distributing some responsibilities throughout the leadership team. The third step is to select the right work. The fourth step is to identify the order of magnitude implied by the selected work. The last step is to match the management style to the order of magnitude of the change initiative. The last step incorporates whether this is first or second order change.

* Secondly, I establish a guiding association of individuals to lead change and encourage association to work as a team.

b. What are some of the reasons for the ARC's ethical dilemmas, and how can the organization guarantee that these problems will not recur in the future?