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**7a. Micro-political Leadership**: The school executive develops systems and relationships to leverage staff expertise and influence in order to affect the school’s identity, culture, and performance.

Internship Activities
 * Attended PLCs
 * Conducted regular classroom walk-through observations
 * Led small group instruction in classrooms
 * Ribbon cutting for book fair
 * Meeting with public relations officer; superintendent
 * Meeting with //Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald// reporter about NELA
 * Led a NELA informational meeting with potential candidates from my district (invited by the superintendent to present)
 * Participated in a NELA presentation to the Halifax County Board of Education along with NELA Cohort I fellows from Halifax County Schools
 * Attended an expectations' meeting between fifth grade students and teachers and the principal and counselor of the middle school the students would be attending next year
 * Analysis of Teacher Working Conditions survey results

Coursework, Trainings, and Readings
 * NELA Assessment Day – reporter scenario
 * Participated in NELA Informational/Recruitment meeting for Cohort III
 * Participation in "Witch and Watch" Experiential Learning Activity to better understand communication in organizations with hierarchical structures
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Participation in "Innovation Maze" Experiential Learning Activity to explore group work, problem solving, innovation, risk-taking and reactions to mistakes

<span style="background-color: #fa6161; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 24px;">Selected Artifacts

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Witch and the Watch Reflections.docx] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Innovation Maze Reflections.docx] Halifax NELA Cohort I Fellows at April Halifax County School Board Meeting