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School principals who embody this leadership paradigm encourage and enable teachers, and demonstrate a desire to build school community. Teachers’ effectiveness increases as they are honoured and served by their principal, thereby impacting students, colleagues, and parents positively. Servant leaders often put the needs of the organization ahead of personal needs and honour people, not programs and politics. Students ultimately benefit from this leadership approach as their teachers learn to serve them first as people, and then confidently lead them into their learning.  \nPrincipals who model servant leadership increase teacher effectiveness in their schools. Principals must understand the servant leadership role of modelling a servant heart (Cerit, 2009), enabling teachers to act (Taylor, Martin, Hutchinson, & Jinks, 2007), encouraging teachers’ hearts (Grothaus, 2004), and communicating a larger vision (Taylor et al. , 2007), in order to optimize the paradigm of servant leadership. Servant leadership increases teacher effectiveness by positively impacting their personal beliefs and values (Cerit, 2009; Spears, 2004; Taylor et al. , 2007), interactions with colleagues (Crippen, 2010; Taylor et al. , 2007) classroom leadership and pedagogy (Russell, 2012; Stewart, 2012), interactions with students (Herman & Marlowe, 2005; Sultan & van de Bunt-Kokhuis, 2014), and desire and ability to build school community (Cerit, 2009; Crippen, 2012) . The definition of servant leadership and the associated personal characteristics will be established, and false notions of it revealed, so that a comprehensible perspective can be maintained throughout this paper. Servant leadership is multi-dimensional, and requires deep understanding in order for more principals to acknowledge its potential to increase teacher effectiveness, change schools, and meet organizational needs (Taylor et al. , 2007) . I am currently in my fifth year as principal of an independent Manitoba school, which has kindergarten to grade eight classes, and upholds Christian values and perspectives. This article includes several of my experiences of serving and leading the staff members, students, and families at the school where I serve.  \nDefining Servant Leadership  \nServant leadership starts with desire. Stewart (2012) and Crippen (2010) agreed with Robert Greenleaf’s original notion in the 1970s about servant leadership, which highlighted the intrinsic feeling of leaders wanting to serve. That selfless desire to serve (Herman & Marlowe, 2005; Taylor et al. , 2007) establishes servant leaders as being servants first (Crippen, 2005; Russell, 2012; Taylor et al. , 2007), and leaders second. A leader’s greatness is built upon the practice of serving other people (Spears, 2004) and although servant leaders are servants first, they can be great leaders because “leading and serving are two sides of the same coin” (Sultan & van de Bunt-Kokhuis, 2014, p. 2) . The essential skills, knowledge, and character traits that are consistently understood as leadership staples are still required to lead people (Buskey, 2014), the difference becomes apparent in the leader’s value system based on the leader’s actions and interactions with people. Servant leaders genuinely care about people and will sacrificially serve and focus on their followers’ needs (Buskey, 2014; Cerit, 2009; Taylor et al. , 2007) and leaders are often developed and discovered by those acts of service and stewardship (Crippen, 2005) . Servant leaders stretch beyond meeting the needs of individuals in the  \norganization, but also put aside personal desires, in order to meet the needs of the organization (Taylor et al. , 2007) .  \nCerit (2009) believed that the practice of servant leadership is embedded in the understanding that th","cbCaidpC1iDJqKil","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidpC1iDJqKil","pdf",304588,"English","# Abstract\n## Defining Servant Leadership\n## False Notions of Servant Leadership","[{\"question\":\"How does servant leadership affect teacher effectiveness in schools?\",\"answer\":\"Principals who model servant leadership increase teacher effectiveness by encouraging, enabling, and honoring teachers. The model strengthens teachers’ beliefs and values and improves interactions with colleagues, students, and classroom leadership.\"},{\"question\":\"What is servant leadership defined as in this paper?\",\"answer\":\"Servant leadership begins with a desire to serve and is characterized by leading others while placing organizational purpose, organizational needs, and people’s needs above the leader’s own desires. It is described as an action-oriented mindset that equips followers to do what needs to be done.\"},{\"question\":\"What criticisms are addressed regarding servant leadership?\",\"answer\":\"The paper notes that servant leadership has been criticized as unrealistic, linked to slavery, or viewed as passive and weak. It argues these criticisms stem from misunderstanding and from applying a traditional hierarchical model where the term “servant” is wrongly associated with slavery.\"}]","The Effectiveness of Servant Leadership in Schools - From a Christian Perspective | PDF",1792082223,15]