instructional leadership: creating the conditions #leadership20
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Instructional Leadership
“Creating the Conditions”
#leadership20
Chris Wejr@chriswejr
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ABOUT ME
Kent Elementary School Agassiz, BC
For each student to master core skills, develop their strengths and interests and
become a confident learner.
“We cannot motivate others… we can only work to
create the conditions for people to motivate themselves.”
--
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1. What does instructional leadership mean to you?
2. How do we create the conditions for effective school instructional leadership?
3. What are some ideas we can share to help build more instructional leadership in schools?
Today We Will Reflect Upon:
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Instructional Leadership is….
Instructional Leadership
Alberta Principal Quality Standards
• demonstrates a sound understanding of current pedagogy and curriculum • implements strategies for addressing standards of student achievement • ensures that student assessment and evaluation practices throughout the
school are fair, appropriate and balanced • implements effective supervision and evaluation to ensure that all
teachers consistently meet the Alberta Teaching Quality Standard • ensures that appropriate pedagogy is utilized in response to various
dimensions of student diversity • ensures that students have access to appropriate programming based on
their individual learning needs • recognizes the potential of new and emerging technologies, and enables
their meaningful integration in support of teaching and learning • ensures that teachers and other staff communicate and collaborate with
parents and community agencies, where appropriate, to support student learning
• supports the use of community resources to enhance student learning.
Instructional
Leader ship
Pedagogical Leadership: “a kind of ‘leading’ that often walks behind the one who is ‘led’”
-- T.J. Sergiovanni
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• Shared purpose• Empowered teachers• Fostered collaboration and collegiality• Supported risk taking and innovation• Helped teachers become inquiry oriented• Provided resources and time for professional growth
Effective Principals:
From Blase and Blase study of 800+ teachers (2004)
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“You need management to build a house but only leadership can make it into a home.”
Bruce Beairsto
Teacher Leadership
The old model of formal, one-person leadership leaves the substantial talents of teachers largely untapped...
Leadership is the professional work of everyone in the school.
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Focusing on Strengths
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Moving from “Can we…?”
…to “HOW can we…?”
Learn
Educators are gradually redefining the role of the principal from instructional leader with a focus on teaching to leader of a
professional community with a focus on learning.-- Rick Dufour
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Leadership Within Staff
Supervision For Learning
Curriculum
and
Assessment
Be Vulnerable
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Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be
seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.
Brene Brown
Instructional LeadershipCreating the Conditions
• Balance effective leadership and
management
• Encourage leadership from within
• Relationships
• Provide Resources
• Model
• Learn
• Be the connector
• Provide Feedback
• Stay current
• Develop and promote a shared vision
Personal Reflections
for Growth
• How do I create more opportunities for people to connect and learn together (PLC) with the current structural constraints?
• How can I better share the great practices/stories of individuals without creating animosity?
• What can I do to create more effective time in classrooms?
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Acknowledgements
Bruce BeairstoScott BenwellJacquie Taylor
Roxanne WatsonStan Watchorn
Karen NelsonStaff of Kent Elementary
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Today’s slides: