Entry 4.

2- Leadership, Participation, and Collaboration

The candidate seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student
learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, support staff, and
community members to ensure learner growth, and to advance the profession.
As a Teacher, there are four groups of people that are the most crucial to student success. These groups
are the students themselves, the student’s families, the staff of the school, and the immediate community.
These four groups must work together to grow the students into well-rounded young adults. Having a
spirit of collaboration is crucial in this profession, because it’s not all about what you can do as one
person. Teaching is about banding together with the other influences in your students’ lives and building
the student into the people you know they can be.
Throughout my time at K-State, I was a leader in many organizations. I was the Music Instructor for the
Piccolo section of the Kansas State University Marching Band for two years; (2017-2018, 2018-2019)
and throughout my time as section leader we collaborated with many other section leaders to build new
experiences for our friends in the sections. I have collaborated most recently with the tenor saxophone
section. We switched section leaders for a sectional one day so that our sections could gain experience
with playing with different section leaders in front of them. I also served as the principal flautist in both
the Wind Ensemble and the Orchestra. I organized a combined flute and clarinet sectional in conjunction
with the clarinet section leader, as well as one with the mallet percussion instruments that shared the same
lines as us in specific areas of the music. Collaboration truly opens doors that may not have even been
dreamt of. I intend to continue collaborating everywhere I go.