Walk in my Shoes

Abstract

You have already met Angela (Principal of St. Jerome High School) and Denis (Principal of St. Mark High School). To help the non-principal reader to better appreciate the context of the Catholic school principalship, we’ve decided to take a few pages to describe the two high schools and then, from our two weeks with each Angela and Denis, we profile a single day in their school life. Both principals exemplified servant-leadership behaviour fairly evenly during the 10 days they were each observed, but we chose one day from the 10 to be richest in terms of descriptions and conversation. We thought we’d provide our sense of the major servant-leadership themes that complement and elaborate on the themes discussed earlier in this book through our conversations with all six Catholic high school principals, including Angela and Denis.