<div dir="ltr"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a77420a3-000a-1692-2d56-0e3e695136c1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">My school spends time as all four types of structure -- Weberian, Authoritarian, Professional, and Chaotic -- although probably least so with chaotic.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Much of the time, I enjoy the luxury of having a professional structure where I have near complete autonomy to run the band program as I see fit without jumping through many hoops. As long as I keep my principal in the loop and have reasoning behind decisions, I am largely trusted to exercise my specialized professionalism to run the band program.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">While I am able to enjoy some bureaucratic freedom, the special education teachers at my school are far more regulated. They need to document/prove that they are being state and district compliant at all times. So, while the special education teachers are highly specialized, they also high amounts of bureaucracy which is characteristic of a Weberian structure.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The other two structures, at my school, can most easily be found outside of teaching. The kitchen is highly structured and regulated with very little space for professional freedoms: authoritarian. The chaotic structure can be found on the playground with constantly changing and unpredictable dynamics between children.</span></p></b><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font face="Helvetica" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px"><font face="Arial" size="4" color="navy"><b>Nicholas Turon</b></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><br>Director of Bands<br></font></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font face="Helvetica" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy">Paint Valley Local Schools</font></span></font></div><div><font color="#000080" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="mailto:nicholas.turon@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicholas.turon@gmail.com</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma"><font face="Helvetica" size="2"><span style="font-size:16px"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="navy"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span id="gc-number-196" class="gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice">(740)-816-8266</span></span></span></font></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>