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Article Evaluation: Collaborative Leadership

•Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Most of the facts are represented with a source or have some sort of reference.

•Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? Nothing was distracting at all, I found all of the information to be interesting.

•Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? The page only discusses what collaborative leadership is, there is not much of another side to argue.

•Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? My group and I found that the Harvard Business Review seems to be neutral.

•If biased, is that bias noted? Not biased at all.

•Are there viewpoints that are over-represented, or underrepresented? The viewpoint that might be a little underrepresented is the point of example. It is clearly represented under characteristics and definition, but an example of collaborative leadership might be a good point to add into the Wikipedia page itself.

•Check a few citations. Do the links work? Almost all of the links work except for the red ones.

•Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article? There is none of this in the article.

•Is any information out of date? All of the information seems to be a broad collaboration of old information and new information.

•Is anything missing that could be added? Not at the moment.

Summary: This article seems that it is going to be very interesting in the sense that we will be able to use it in the real world. Most of us in the group have never held a position of leadership so we have never had to put any of these characteristics to test.

Annotated Bibliography

1. Abdolhamid, A. (2016). School principals’ collaborative leadership style and relation it to teachers’ self-efficacy. International Journal Of Research Studies In Education, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 3-12 (2016), (3), 3. doi:10.5861/ijrse.2015.1218. The authors in this article raise the points that engagement in the workplace, (direct engagement especially, from the people at the top) makes people feel important, in return makes them work harder because they feel like they are doing work that is making a difference. Principals in this article used physical exercise and other activities to make teachers work together so that when they work together, they are able to find a solution for a problem as a whole. On the flip side, these principals are using collaborative leadership to allow the teachers to learn from group work so that when they are teaching in the class they are better leaders when problems arise in the classroom.
2. Duemer, L. S., Christopher, M., Hardin, F., Olibas, L., Rodgers, T., & Spiller, K. (2004). Case study of characteristics of effective leadership in graduate student collaborative work. Education, (4), 721. At the University of Texas, and Texas Tech University, the authors wanted to do study collaborative group work in graduate classes. They wanted to see how the students reacted to working in a group since group work is becoming more acceptable in the work place. They found that in most of the groups there was one person who emerged as the 'leader' of the group and directed the projects as a supervisor would. This person displayed characteristics that the others did not, for instance, the group leader showed "confidence, assertiveness, and facilitation" this helped the group members a lot because there were expectations from one of their own to perform well. The article does state that while the results were good, there were factors that could play a role also like quick deadlines because of a short summer semester.
3. OZUNA, T. t., SAENZ, V. B., BALLYSINGH, T. A., & YAMAMURA, E. K. (2016). Examining Culturally Responsive College Readiness in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Journal Of School Leadership, 26(1), 154-182. This article literally hits home for me because I am a valley native. But it is so weird reading this article because I know the struggles of a low income family, I myself am a first generation student, just like the rest of my friends who went on to college after high school. It is pretty amazing to see the work that a lot of the counties and school districts are doing together. They are combining their resources to be able to make college not only a thought to some of our students but as well as a viable option.
4. Miller, R. A., & Vaccaro, A. (2016). Queer Student Leaders of Color: Leadership as Authentic, Collaborative, Culturally Competent. Journal Of Student Affairs Research And Practice, 53(1), 39-50. This article really caught my attention because I do not believe it should it even be a topic of discussion in 2017 but it is. The authors of this article describe a world that is hard already for a queer and even harder for a queer to be a leader. It is like the whole women thing, when people said that it wasn't hard enough that she's a woman, but now she's a leader? This queer group of color has organized it own group because the queer white group would look down on them. A leader should not be looked as a woman or man, gay or straight. But rather the qualities that person possess as a leader.
5. O'Donnell, J., & Kirkner, S. L. (2014). The Impact of a Collaborative Family Involvement Program on Latino Families and Children's Educational Performance. School Community Journal, 24(1), 211-234. Just like the RGV article on Latinos up-top, this article discusses the problems Latinos face from such a young age. Especially the kids born outside of the United States. These kids face an uphill battle because they come over with little to no education and have to compete with english speaking Americans. So they are already at a disadvantage, luckily for some of these students, they have people who care about the and care about the future of this country. In California the YMCA was created for low income parts of the state. This was supposed to be something that helped disadvantaged families get involved with sports and community involvement. A study was conducted before and after the family involvement programs and in every category that the authors assessed, the stats were better. Parent-teacher relationships shot up, student-teacher relationships shot up, as well as student-parent relationships. All because some senator or governor decided that the Latino population was being overlooked and wanted to do something about so he/she conducted a grant to fund this YMCA and come together with state and local governments to make this happen.