Leadership magazine May/June 2015 V 44 No 5 | Page 7

ACSA Executive Director

To our readers

Wesley Smith

Director of Communications
Naj Alikhan

Editor
Susan Davis

Board of Directors

The most important collaborative practice
for school leaders: Taking a principled path

President

Dear Colleague:

Randall Delling

They tell me that these are my last 350 words to you. The year flew
by, as they often do. The theme this month is collaboration and partnerships. Topics include district collaboration with other groups,
labor-management collaboration, CTE partnerships with industry
to prepare students for jobs and college, linked learning, using social
media to promote school-family connections, and more.

President-Elect
Tom Armelino

Vice President
Ralph Porras

Vice President for Legislative Action
Lisa Gonzales

Past President
Marc Ecker

Directors
Eric Andrew, Mauricio Arellano, Randy Bangs,
Tammie Calzadillas, Katherine Castleberry,
Will Ector, Holly Edds, Lisette EstrellaHenderson, Rod Federwisch, Mary Grace,
Jeff Harris, Andrew Ishibashi, Darrien Johnson,
Peter Johnson, Linda Kaminski,
Heidi Lawler, Jon LeDoux, Rose Lock,
Robert Martinez, Cindy Petersen, Terri Rufert,
Edward Trimis, Craig Wheaton

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I am leaving you with the most important collaboration practice,
the practice I communicated when we began our journey together.
That practice is to strive at all times to be as principled a
human being as you possibly can. By that I mean that I be- I believe it is important to
lieve it is important to lead by committing your practice to
such ideas as truth, honesty, consideration, respect, respon- lead by committing your
sibility, caring, kindness, love, seeking justice for all with
practice to such ideas as
courage, and working for the common good, secure in the
knowledge that as you lift others in leadership you lift your- truth, honesty, respect,
self.
These are the principles that are at the forefront of my
practice and my conduct. None of us is perfect; therefore we
cannot claim to be principled