[Ous-lp-rp13] Greetings

[Larson, William]

Hi Everyone!

Greetings; I hope that you are having a pleasant weekend.

Please know of my praise for your participation in the EDAD 6010 and EDAD 6020 class sessions, along with the submissions that you are making to the course questions and the answers of your colleagues. You appear to be a dutiful and high capacity group of students.

I am striving to be accommodating to your plans (i.e., those made before entering the program) and needs (unexpected emergencies). I hope that you find my attempts to be useful. If I miss, please notify me.

Your consideration of the stress that I am experiencing, as Nancy, my wife, and Sarah, my daughter, recover from their nasty incidents, is greatly appreciated. If my reactions in class sessions seem at times to be "over the edge," please know that they likely reflect the stress.

However, I am committed to getting you started on this journey. My university colleagues have praised my capacity to create a learning community. Though, I cannot accomplish that end without your help.

I perceive that a good start was made last week. An objective is to attend concurrently to tasks and relations. In other words, an effort is being made to develop a respectful culture and for you to learn requisite knowledge and skills needed for administration. In addition, I am hoping that spending more time on an item will result in a deeper understanding for you. An aspiration is for you to embrace in a meaningful manner, not just learn, the topics begin addressed.

As I have mentioned, you are involved in a program, not disparate courses. Hopefully, you will leave the program in two years ready to apply effectively those things to which you are studying.

You may agree or disagree with the suggestions that I am making; though please give them consideration. The suggestions reflect my own experiences as an administrator, of which some of the "bruises" may never heal.. They also reflect my observations of students once they become administrators. As you may know, I am the director of the Ohio University Leadership Project, a grassroots professional development program for current elementary principals, secondary principals, superintendents, and treasurers. The project serves an aggregate of approximately 400 administrators per year. For this reason, I interact with current administrators on a regular basis, learning about their needs and frustrations.

Until then, Bill
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