Being in the ‘position’ of starting out as a teacher in August, your posts on leadership and truth have been really effective to me.

I’m going to be at the bottom of the chain as a probationer, but I am acutely aware that honesty and leadership are going to be huge factor of my success as a classroom teacher. I was going to say that my defenition of a good leader (in relation to trust/honesty), was quite simply someone who was willing to ’stick their neck out’. This could be through your personality or your choices. And I guess that this, of course, leaves you open to critisism - as you showed in your last post - though much better to know what people feel about you than not!
I find a couple of things interesting though - the two way nature of honesty, especially between someone in ‘power’ and someone who is not….?
Also the nature of ‘honesty and trust’ when it comes to blogging. I wonder how much ‘honesty’ people display when they choose quite simple not to comment or ‘publish’ their post?I particularly liked the words ’steadfast’, ‘integrity’ and ‘candor’ in the pdf you pointed us to. I hope people will be receptive to the harsh truth if it and they are treated with dignity.
The ending note, I thought was apt for me over the year ahead:
Honesty and integrity is an all or nothing situation, there are no half-way measures. Successful people recognize the practice of honesty and
integrity as the foundation for building trust. Based on trust, quality professional
relationships are built and maintained. There are no substitutes:
I was not lying, I said things that later on seemed to be untrue. Richard Nixon (1978)
Honesty is the stuff you tell yourself when nobody else is listening. J.T. Scarnati
Krysia