Stepping Down - My Personal HR Leadership Experience

Over the summer and for the first four months of the 2011-2012 school year I served as grade-level lead for the 10th grade of Johnson College Prep, a campus of Noble Street Charter School.  I had the opportunity to mentor first and second year teachers, work towards bettering school climate, culture, and morale, and run weekly meetings with roughly a dozen staff members in attendance.  Last week I resigned the position because of too many responsibilities and stress resulting from 16 hour work days.  However, the experience gave me tremendous insight into the responsibilities and roles of a leader.  The HR component of the job - addressing climate and culture - and mentoring was the perfect complement to EDL663 (my Ed. Leadership course in human resources).  I believe it will be a short time until I will have another opportunity to lead in a similar context.  What an invaluable experience though.  Hopefully it was a mature decision to step down.