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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 2:16 am
An IB Teaching certificate has FAR more utility then an IB Leadership certificate.
There are essentially four routes to becoming an admin:
1) You start at a lower tier IS as an IT, and sometime after your first contract you stay, and when everyone else leaves youre there and you get more responsibility, until your running the IS. The problem is you have to stay somewhere that isnt likely a great place to be.
2) You get the right degree, and qualifications and experience and you apply, and you get that first appointment to senior leadership. The hardest part is breaking in, but once in its pretty easy.
3) You make the right friends, marry the right person, and ownership likes you, and you know way more about education then they do, so they ask you to run their IS.
4) You start your own IS.
Leadership in an IS is very different from leadership roles in a regulated DS where you spend a decade or more slowly working your way up. IE is a very transient profession ITs and admins move around all the time outside of the elite tier ISs. Everyone has a plan and a goal, and a dream vision that they are chasing. If that dream includes running an elite tier IS your waiting for someone to die or retire, and then there is a LONG line of candidates who want that job, and usually its an internal candidate. Those who "end up in admin" dont typically plan on it. They end up ina lower tier IS, get married, and then stay, growing roots int he community, and when the community accepts you and likes you, when a vacancy opens they ask you to do it. Thats something most ITs dont get about lower tier ISs its not about executive search firms, and grandiose schemes, its being accepted by the community because ownership is either the community or its an individual in the community. I've met many HOSs who have nothing more than a Bachelors degree, and IT experience in the community at an IS. They dont have advance degrees or credentials, they just know the IS, the parents, the students, and ownership likes them and trusts them.
There are essentially four routes to becoming an admin:
1) You start at a lower tier IS as an IT, and sometime after your first contract you stay, and when everyone else leaves youre there and you get more responsibility, until your running the IS. The problem is you have to stay somewhere that isnt likely a great place to be.
2) You get the right degree, and qualifications and experience and you apply, and you get that first appointment to senior leadership. The hardest part is breaking in, but once in its pretty easy.
3) You make the right friends, marry the right person, and ownership likes you, and you know way more about education then they do, so they ask you to run their IS.
4) You start your own IS.
Leadership in an IS is very different from leadership roles in a regulated DS where you spend a decade or more slowly working your way up. IE is a very transient profession ITs and admins move around all the time outside of the elite tier ISs. Everyone has a plan and a goal, and a dream vision that they are chasing. If that dream includes running an elite tier IS your waiting for someone to die or retire, and then there is a LONG line of candidates who want that job, and usually its an internal candidate. Those who "end up in admin" dont typically plan on it. They end up ina lower tier IS, get married, and then stay, growing roots int he community, and when the community accepts you and likes you, when a vacancy opens they ask you to do it. Thats something most ITs dont get about lower tier ISs its not about executive search firms, and grandiose schemes, its being accepted by the community because ownership is either the community or its an individual in the community. I've met many HOSs who have nothing more than a Bachelors degree, and IT experience in the community at an IS. They dont have advance degrees or credentials, they just know the IS, the parents, the students, and ownership likes them and trusts them.