Hedgehog, Queen Bee, or Wolf: Developing a Management Style that Creates an Empowered, Engaged, and Effective Environment

This training offers an opportunity to reflect on your strengths and challenges as an administrator, with consideration of the following questions:
• Do you trust and empower your staff to be self-sufficient, while also providing adequate guidance, supervision, and support?
• How well do you know your colleagues, students, families, and community?
• Do you understand the challenges and successes that your teachers and caregivers experience in the classroom?
• Are you confident in your ability to locate resources that are important to your program’s success?
• Do you reach out to stakeholders in the community to insure that your program is able to meet the needs of the families in your service area?
• Are you involved in advocacy to elevate the profile of the profession?
• Do you demonstrate and support a commitment to ongoing professional development?