Communication and controversy

In this assignment, you will research current events involving communication and controversy within educational organizations and explain how you, as an instructional leader, would have handled the controversies.

• Create a 5 to 7-page paper (not including the title and references pages) in a Word document for your response.
• Use APA format for paper, title, references page, and in-text citations.
• Develop an introduction and conclusion for your paper.
• Follow the directions to submit your final Word document.

Research two current events involving communication and controversy within educational organizations. Specifically examine the role of technology in communicating the controversies.

Describe the events, the communication that took place, and why the communication was effective/positive or ineffective/negative. How did social, economic, technological, and logistical factors impact the communication?

As an instructional leader, how would you have handled the controversies? Describe how what you learned can be applied in (1) an educational environment and (2) as an instructional leader.

Answer preview

As an instructional leader, there are different ways I could have handled this controversy differently and avoided shaming my students. Instructional leaders, especially if they are principals, are responsible for ensuring they provide the teaching staff and support staff within the institutions with the requisite resources to allow them to cater to their students’ needs. By introducing a lunch shaming policy, the school was doing the opposite of this, because doing so creates an inhospitable learning environment. To avoid this, the principal should have drafted letters to all the affected families, informing them that they intend to withhold offering meals to their children for failure to pay the required meals. By doing this, parents will be aware of what is going on, and as such, contact the school to find ways of paying their debts, even if it would be through flexible and intermittent payments. Such collaboration between the school and parents might have helped avoid the problems brought about by the policy (Koschmann, 2012). Alternatively,

[1647 Words]

Communication and controversy