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Personal Vision for Early Childhood Leadership

Diane DuChateau outlines her personal vision statement as a leader in early childhood education. Her vision is to encourage and inspire others to strive for high-quality early childhood education for children by engaging educators, families, and the community. She believes that optimistic, knowledgeable, and engaged teachers who support families can best support children's well-being. Her goal is to help others see how their work contributes to this vision and why it is important, while being careful not to take over others' problems or play the role of fixer.

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Personal Vision for Early Childhood Leadership

Diane DuChateau outlines her personal vision statement as a leader in early childhood education. Her vision is to encourage and inspire others to strive for high-quality early childhood education for children by engaging educators, families, and the community. She believes that optimistic, knowledgeable, and engaged teachers who support families can best support children's well-being. Her goal is to help others see how their work contributes to this vision and why it is important, while being careful not to take over others' problems or play the role of fixer.

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  • Vision Statement
  • Why
  • Introduction

Diane DuChateau

Personal Vision Statement


(For myself as a leader in early childhood education and care)

Introductory:
While pondering what I wanted my personal vision statement would be as a
leader in the early childhood field, I used various methods. I wrote down single
descriptive words as they came to me. I relooked at notes I took during discussions,
when reading articles and various chapters in books. I relooked at my journals and
the pause point exercises and my MBTI. Then I just stepped back, reflected and
paused. I, also, realize that this is my starting point. This is what I want to strive
for. I need to be conscience of the fact to take the time to pause and reflect. (Not
just occasionally) I need to be open and remind myself that as time goes on the
vision could change. At first, I had all these descriptive words down but when I took
the time to really think about what excites and energizes me and where I see myself
now and where I want to go, the following is what came into being

Vision Statement:
Encouraging and inspiring others to aspire to reach their highest level of
commitment for a quality early childhood for children. This includes educators,
families and community.

Why:
I believe that teachers who are optimistic, knowledgeable and engaged will
reach out to engage and support families to bring the best for the well being of the
child(ren). In the, Power of Vision, there was a statement I wrote down, Providing a
pathway to the promise vision. Part of my vision is a quality early childhood for
children and this includes quality in education, care, and family and community life
for children. I feel the people who are the teachers for young children and, this
includes families and communities, is the pathway for achieving this quality. I
wrote encouraging because I feel this is one of my strengths. I try to encourage
others to see the positives in situations. I want to inspire others to realize the
potential of the positive impact they can have for children. In Primal Leadership (p.
12-14), Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee, make a reference: When people feel
upbeat, they see the positive light in a situation. When they feel bad, they focus on

the downside. I feel when people feel encouraged and inspired, they can see the
possibilities. I quote Dewitt Jones, Being truly open to the possibilities.
In Primal Leadership (p.57), it mentions that visionary leaders help people to
see how their work fits into the big picture, lending people a clear sense not just
what they do matters but also why. One leadership area I will need to work on
myself as I work with my vision is to be careful of trying to solve others problems. I
want to heed the advice from A Hidden Wholeness (p. 60-61) to be careful of trying
to solve give solutions- to solve others problems. I need to be careful not to take
it over and to play the fixer role less often. I need to instead work on posing
thoughtful questions or phrases that allows the other person to reflect on the
circumstance. By doing so, I believe this will help encourage and inspire others.

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