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Three Harbors Council Boyscouts Troop 506 Troop Master  Timothy Seipel

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Three Harbors Council Boyscouts Troop 506 Troop Master  Timothy Seipel

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1. Is there anyone who has greatly impacted your beliefs as a leader or mentor and how and why?

2.  How do you keep the inspiration of the troop going so many years leading to almost 100 eagle scouts in this small community?

3.  What do you do to encourage the freedom of creative thinking in the troop?

4. How do you encourage all the boys to feel comfortable to bring up new ideas  in the troop?

5.  How do you and the other troop leaders communicate the values you hope the boys to emulate?

6.  How do you encourage other parents and the boys to communicate these values?

7.  How do you help new scouts understand the culture of the troop?

8.  How do you create an atmosphere at the meetings and activities of being open to new experiences?

9.  How do you help the boys to feel a sense of belonging with the troop?

10.  What do you do to encourage the boys to collaborate in decision making?

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Principal of Pleasant Ridge Elementary School, a K-5 Gaston County (NC) Public School, Glenn Cook

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Principal of Pleasant Ridge Elementary School, a K-5 Gaston County (NC) Public School, Glenn Cook

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1. Can you name a person who has had a tremendous impact on you as a leader? Why and how did this person impact your life?

2. What are the most important decisions you make as a leader of your school?

3. How do you encourage creative thinking within your school?

4. Where do the great ideas come from in your school?

5. How do you help those 'idea' people bring their ideas to life?

6. What do you do to mentor teacher leaders within your school?

7. What do you do to understand the needs of the teachers, staff, and students in your school?

8. How do you help a new employee understand the culture of your school?

9. What is one characteristic that you believe every leader should possess?

10. What is the biggest challenge facing school leaders today?

11. What is one mistake you witness leaders making more frequently than others?

12. What are a few resources you would recommend to someone looking to gain insight into becoming a better leader?

13. What advice would you give someone going into a leadership position for the first time?

14. What are you doing to ensure you continue to grow and develop as a leader?

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1. What guides your decisions in dealing with students and staff?
2. Who do you go to for advice when you are struggling with a decision? Why?
3. How do you include staff in decisions about the school?
4. What advice do you give to your students about being good leaders? Where id that advice originate?
5. How do you motivate staff/ students to go beyond their self-imposed limits?
6. What experiences influenced you to work at a Priority school?
7. What do you do when something that you work hard to bring to life either does not happen or does not end up the way that you planned? How do you help your staff and students to persevere?
8. What is your opinion on the thought that a good leader knows when to follow? How do you step back and let another more experience/knowledgeable person lead?
9. What struggles have you faced when trying to show/convince the community that individuals in your school are worthy of support? How do you build that sense of worth in the staff and students?
10. What would like others to know about the strengths of the staff/students that you support?
11. How do you think being a teacher for so many years prior to being a principal has influenced your leadership style?
12. How do you develop/choose rewards for staff and students?
13. Which is more important - character or results?
14. What advice would you give to future principals?
15. How do you deal with challenging personalities?
16. How do you deal with people above you who don't "get it"?
17. How do you know if your staff is happy?

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Principal of Maxwell Elementary: K-5 school

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Principal of Maxwell Elementary: K-5 school

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1. Why did you go into administration?
2. What are you greatest strengths and weaknesses as a leader?
3. How do you gauge student and teacher success?
4. How would you describe your leadership style?
5. When faced with a parent who is unhappy with a teacher, how do you approach the situation?
6. How do you ensure that the academic content that is presented to students is motivating as well as thought-provoking?
7. How to your ensure that Maxwell is open to learning and change?
8. What does your self-talk sound like when obstacles within the school arises?
9. How do you motivate and support your teachers?
10. How do you know if your staff are happy?

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1. How would you describe your leadership style?
2. What are some ways you have dealt with challenges, and how did you find solutions?
3. How would you describe your classroom management style?
4. What advice would you give to a new teacher during their first year?
5. What advice would you give to an experienced teacher in need of improvement?
6. What steps would you take if you dealing with a student discipline incident?
7. How have you communicated with parents of challenging students?
8. What is your ideal school environment, and how would you encourage that kind of culture?

9. How do you build a positive school culture or climate?

10. Explain how you would handle a teacher who challenges your directives?

11. How would you deal with administrative decisions that overstep any decisions you have already made?

12. How have you changed your leadership style in light of modern day technology and behavior?

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Principal of Auer Avenue School, a K-8 Milwaukee Public School Dr. Zannetta Walker

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Principal of Auer Avenue School, a K-8 Milwaukee Public School Dr. Zannetta Walker

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1. How do you address, handle or face administrative challenges?
2. What are the key components of your school's new teacher induction plan?
3. How do you share vital information with your staff?
4. How do you gauge the culture/climate of your staff?
5. How do you reward staff?
6. Do you believe the needs of your school consistently jive with
the needs of your students?
7. How do you get teachers to commit to new initiatives or policies?
8. Would you ever go back into the classroom?
. What management style do you currently use?
10. When do you start planning for the school year?

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Public K-8

1. How do you ensure that all of the people you work with are on the same page with expectations and implementation?
2. If you had to name 3 strengths of yours, what would they be?
3. What is your biggest challenge when validating and supporting staff?
4. What is your "why"?
5. If you had to identify one memory that validated your career choice as a leader, what would it be and why?
6. What systems of support do you use in school and why?
7. When you participate in coaching, what strategies do you use to motivate teachers to believe in the process? How do you reward those that are helping move the organization forward?
8. How do you validate the ones you work with? How do you feel validated?
9. How do you connect with the staff and how does that connection help when you are making decisions for the staff?
10. If you could offer advice to people looking to become an SST what would it be?

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1. What is your "why" in your work as an administrator and go-to for students?
2. How has your approach to work shifted from being a classroom teacher?
3. Do you operate under a particular educational theory or model?
4. What has been your biggest challenge in your work as an administrator?
5. What has been your biggest success as an administrator?
6.  Are there mentors to whom you turn for advice and guidance?
7. What are your top three priorities to your role and responsibility?
8. How do you manage self-care?
9. Are there any skills unrelated to education you have learned that you find valuable in your work?
10. What is something you are currently working to improve?

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Principal K-8 Non-Instrumentality Charter Kanika Burkes

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Principal K-8 Non-Instrumentality Charter Kanika Burkes

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1. Who are your leadership mentors?
2. What are you most important beliefs as a leader?
3. What made you want to become a leader?
4. What is the most important characteristic of a leader?
5. 'What is your hurdle as a leader?
6. How do you prefer to provide feedback to staff members?
7. How do you get to know your staff?
8. How can do you reward staff members?
9. What is your purpose as a leader?
10. How do you promote shared responsiblity within the staff?

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Principal of High School in Houston Independent School District

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Principal of High School in Houston Independent School District

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1. What has been your path to becoming a principal?

2. How many teachers do you supervise?

3. Which theorist has had the most influence on how you shaped your career and why?

4. What advice would you give to a new teacher on his or her first year?

5. How do you support new teachers?

6. How do you show appreciation for students, teachers, and parents?

7. What steps do you take to improve test scores and student performance?

8. Give some examples of how you communicated with parents of challenging students?

9. What would be your ideal school environment, and how would you encourage that kind of culture?

10. From what you have observed from your teachers over the years, what would you say are the key components to classroom success?

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1. What made you want to become a teacher and then principal?
2. How do handle consistently disruptive students?
3. How do you support and motivate new teachers.
4. Do you train your staff and teachers on how to be culturally responsive.
5. What is the hardest part about being a school leader.
6. What is the craziest experience you've had a SL.
7. What are your opinions of the school to prison pipeline.
8. Why do you think black students are suspended at higher rates for the same offenses?
9. What would be your ideal school?
10. What type of incentives do you have for staff.
11. How do you approach giving feedback to teachers.
12. What type of opportunities for growth do you have for your teachers
13. how do you motivate teachers.

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Director of Student Services, Jefferson School District

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Director of Student Services, Jefferson School District

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1. What is your WHY? Your purpose or motivation as an educational leader?
2. Who do you reach out to for support?
3. How do you determine what services are needed for the students you serve and how do you decide who's the best person for the job?
4. What about your staff? Do you rely on character or product?
5. How do provide feedback to your staff?
6. When someone is struggling in the work place, how do you acknowledge that it may be affecting their work?
7. How to you approach your staff when change is on the horizon?
8. How do you measure student success? What do you look for?
9. Are you comfortable hearing constructive feedback about your own practice?
10. Do you believe that even leaders need to know when to follow? Are you willing to follow your employees? Do you trust them?

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Training Specialist: Milwaukee VA Medical Center

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Training Specialist: Milwaukee VA Medical Center

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1. What do you enjoy about being a leader?
2. What do you think is the most important aspect of being a leader?
3. What is your definition of leadership? Why do you think it is important?
4. What is the most challenging aspect of being a leader?
5. What is your advice to someone who wants to be a potential leader someday?
6. What are good ways for someone to practice becoming a leader?
7. Is there anything you would want to change about your leadership style and why?
8. How can you be a leader in education? How can you be a leader being an instructor?
9. What qualities make up a good leader? What qualities can leaders still aim to improve on?
10.  What are your strengths as a leader? How did you find that out?

11. Why did you seek roles in leadership throughout your career?

12. Do you think someone can grow in leadership?

13. What makes your leadership style unique?

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1. What do you feel are the most important qualities in being an educational leader?
2.What do you feel are your greatest strengths?
3. What has been your or was your greatest struggle/hurdle your first year or years as an educational leader?
4. Do you feel that you are supported so that you can be your best-self within your leadership role?
5. What did you garner from the educational leaders from your past?
6. What is your driving puropose as an educational leader?
7. Please articulate your belief system and how it affects your authenticity as an educational leader.
8.  How do you resolve internal conflicts between staff, between staff and parent. Who do you go to for counsel/is counsel important?
9. How would you define an effective leader or their qualities?
10. What is the most valuable work that you do on a day to day basis?
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11. Who are the people in your life who you believe modeled your leadership style?
12. How does your personal compass lead and direct the mission of Bannach?
13. As the chief commander at Bannach, what do you feel our mission is?  How do we get there? And do we arrive as a team?
14.  If you were a DC or Marvel Comic or Super Hero, who do you believe yourself to be...who would your teachers and staff be?  Who or what is the villain we are battling?
15.  When you make a mistake, I've seen you apologize.  Please explain your thinking, your "why" in the moment.  Do you believe it helped?