Educational Educational LeadershipLeadership

Jane Jones

Leadership: Leadership: a simple definitiona simple definition

“The ability to attract willing followers”

Leithwood: leadership – “a Leithwood: leadership – “a menu of possibilities”menu of possibilities”

Action-centred leadership Authentic leadership Alternative leadership Distributed leadership Female leadership Educational leadership Emotionally intelligent leadership “Great Man” leadership (no women?) Group-centred leadership Instructional leadership Invitational leadership

Leaders as historians / potters / Leaders as historians / potters / poets / actors / healers or poets / actors / healers or anthropological sleuthsanthropological sleuths

Manager-centered leadership Moral leadership Leadership by outrage Principled leadership Pedagogical leadership Quiet leadership Servant leadership Strategic leadership

Shared leadershipShared leadership

Teacher leadership Transactional leadership Transformational leadership

The Jossey-Bass Reader on Educational Leadership edited by Michael Fullan

““Change forces”Change forces” School reform School autonomy Self-evaluation Globalisation School effectiveness and improvement

SCHOOL CHANGE IS A SHARED UNDERTAKING

Distributed leadership – Distributed leadership – creating a leadership webcreating a leadership web

Invitations to leadership: recognising potential and willingness

Empowerment: opportunity, scope, space Support, training, coaching Organisational structures that generate leadership

contexts Collaborative learning and professional development Personal learning anf mastery (Senge); Maslow’s level

of self-actualisation The role of the “designated” leader (HT, Principal,

rector etc.): the critical change agent and lighter of fireworks

The capacity for followership GOODBYE COMMAND AND CONTROL

Head TeacherHead Teacher Senior management team

“Big fish” Heads of departments “Small fry” heads of departments

Pastoral coordinators, AEN/SEN etc

“Other” – “I’m just a teacher”

Traditional pyramid

Head teacher as space probeHead teacher as space probe

Subject clusters Maths Languages Science and technology Arts, creative and

performing Humanities Sports and sports

sciences

Cross curricular teams Evaluation and

Assessment Language and

Learning AEN / SEN Personal and social

education

Subject cluster and cross-curricular galaxy

The emerging Leadership paradigm: no single The emerging Leadership paradigm: no single heroicsheroics

The school leadership paradigm is also one of shared leadership. School leadership is beyond the undertakings of one heroic individual. It is simply not possible and may not even be desirable , for one individual to undertake every leadership task within a school. Good school leaders are those who are able to maximise the diverse leadership qualities of others , enabling them to take on leadership within their areas of expertise. They lead by managing, motivating and inspiring people. This may come through individual one-to one work with teachers , pupils, parents or governors, or through creating the impetus within an organisation that encourages and enables people to play an active part in school life.

John MacBeath

The emerging Leadership paradigm: no The emerging Leadership paradigm: no single heroicssingle heroics

“Where heroism is concerned, less can be more.”

Jerome Murphy

My leadership My leadership experiencesexperiences

Leader of: A subject department A pastoral team An innovation on school assessment A University Academic Department A national research project A team of Examiners A national team in an international

project

Lighting fireworks as a Lighting fireworks as a model of leadershipmodel of leadership

Emotionally intelligent leaders: (Peter Early)

See the potential of the firework Light the blue touch paper Stand back and watch carefully

ConclusionConclusion

Pyrotechnics is concerned with the art of making fireworks or a firework display

Pyrotechnic leadership! Slogan: Light my fire

(give me leadership)