Improving Organizational Capital Utilizing State Funded Grant Initiatives

Abstract

School executive leadership, the superintendency, is the juggling of many issues, including proper budgeting oversight, planning for school improvement, targeting classroom instruction, making decisions regarding human capital, and integrating the philosophies of the community represented by the school board into all areas of the school design and operations. All of these requirements of leadership play a role in selecting, writing and facilitation of state funded grant initiatives.   This paper explores the selection and implementation of state grant initiatives in an action research study and is conveyed as a narrative inquiry through reflection of a small rural school superintendent.