1. Chapter 3 (Dr. Fenwick W. English) THE ART OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP BALANCING PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILTIY MENTAL PRISMS OF LEADERSHIP Alison McBride William Allan Kritsonis, PhD
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Performance as an educational leader is dependent on how the leader “sees” events, situations and challenges. This chapter explores how leaders discern what is good and true—the foundation of their beliefs. Also explored is how personal blind spots (biases) can be revealed. Finally, how assumptions have been used to guide educational leadership theories will be discussed.
A quick note about positioning, stacking, and grouping shapes: By positioning shapes, you put them where they work best. By stacking shapes, you give them more places to work in. By grouping shapes, you make them work together so that you can work faster. The rest of the course covers these concepts in detail.
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In this illustration, the diagram on the right is obviously easier to understand because it’s better organized. Your eye can easily follow the connections of the shapes. The diagram on the left looks random and is difficult to follow.
Flowcharts, org charts, and Web site diagrams are examples of diagrams with high clutter potential.
Spacing and size are especially important if you’re creating a detailed office layout or building plan that will control physical measurements.
Tip : Guides are also handy to mark off the margins of the page. And in case you’re wondering, guides don’t show up on printed diagrams. They’re your secret.
An example of when you might need to position shapes precisely: if you’re working on an office layout and need to position a desk to represent its exact location.
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[ Note to trainer : With Visio 2003 installed on your computer, you can click the link in the slide to go to an online practice. In the practice, you can work through each of these tasks in Visio, with instructions to guide you. Important : If you don’t have Visio 2003, you won’t be able to access the practice instructions.]
A closer look at the two clusters of computers shown in the diagram: You can see that each department has two computers and one printer. The underlying circles tell you so. If those circles weren't there, the situation wouldn’t be so clear. In Visio, each of those circles is said to be below the computer equipment. And the square is below the two circles.
In this example, the computer is on the top of the other shapes because it was the last one added to the page.
[ Note to trainer : With Visio 2003 installed on your computer, you can click the link in the slide to go to an online practice. In the practice, you can work through each of these tasks in Visio, with instructions to guide you. Important : If you don’t have Visio 2003, you won’t be able to access the practice instructions.]
Tip: The shortcut key for grouping is CTRL+SHIFT+G. (Think “G for Group.”)
Let’s use our cluster of buildings as an example. If three buildings are grouped together as one, how do you hone in on one of the buildings to resize it a little, or maybe change its color?
This method offers a good way to quickly change a shape. But if you need to do more extensive changes to the one shape, the next slide introduces an alternative.
When might you need to ungroup a shape? When you want to move the group but leave one building behind after all. Or, as described earlier, if you need to make extensive changes to one shape. Tip: You can also ungroup by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+U. (Think “U for Ungroup.”)
Keep ungrouping in mind as you work in Visio. If you want to change part of a shape, try ungrouping it—it may come apart in convenient ways.
[ Note to trainer : With Visio 2003 installed on your computer, you can click the link in the slide to go to an online practice. In the practice, you can work through each of these tasks in Visio, with instructions to guide you. Important : If you don’t have Visio 2003, you won’t be able to access the practice instructions.]
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