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Day 1 Introduction to Administration

By Anonymous
It's been a full day.  I was not sure how we were going to fill an entire nine hours with introducing ourselves, but we did and it was a quite a pleasant change.  We each were asked to create a powerpoint about ourselves and our educational journey.  Each one took 15 to 20 minutes and then afterwards we discussed different aspects of administration, mostly coming in the form of questions from Larry Molacek (the instructor) tilted to make us rethink our positions.  It was a day of introductions, it was a lot, but I now actually feel like I know each person in my cohort whereas if we had just gone around quickly introduced ourselves and moved on to discussions or group work, I probably wouldn't have had this much information about them.  I probably wouldn't have remembered their names for the most part.  Now I already feel like I know Liam, Maria, Maria, Mirelle, Kelsy, Ciro, Julie, Lianne, Doug, Heidi, and Ross (spellings may be a bit off).

The main thing that I found interesting were the variations of styles from person to person.  Speaking style, comfort level, administrative values... Everyone was capable and passionate about education.  Some were not so sure yet if administration was for them or not and some are already in administration.  What this did for me was to say "hey you get to be the administrator you want to be". I think my style came across well, calm and relaxed, (even though on the inside I was fairly nervous) at ease.  
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