wsu leadership part i august
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• When you think of the word leadership, what three words or phrases come to your mind?
• At your table, share your three words or phrases. Why did you select these three?
• Who, as a leader, influenced your thinking on these three words or phrases?
Leadership is . .
“It’s just one darn thing after another!”
Leadership . . . In the essentials . . .
unity.In the non-essentials . . .
freedom.In all things . . .
clarity.
COLLABORATION IS KEY!
“Every collaborationhelps you grow.”
Brian Eno, musician
Even if we have a collaborative environment – are we leading “smart:”?
The Center for Educational Effectiveness
A school is . . .
“a building that has four walls - with the
future inside.”Lon Watters
“Children are the living messages we send to a time
we will not see.”
Neil Postman
The future . . .
Questions?
“Public schools are a public trust.”
Linda Darling-Hammond
“A community is known
by the schools it keeps.”
Shaker Heights School District
Great Schools Consist of . . .
“Great teachers doing
great teaching.”
McKinsey & Company (2007)
Manson School District
Leaders build capacity,
not dependency.
Capacity Building . . .
involves the collective ability – dispositions, skills, knowledge, motivation and resources – to
act together to bring about expected change.
If you want to change people’s behavior, “You need to create a
community around them, where these new beliefs could be practical,
expressed and nurtured” (p. 173).
Fullan (2005)
“Your bottom line is
your front line.
It all comes from people”
Casey Stengel, manager of the New York Yankees, commented after winning the 1958 World Series,
“I couldn’t have done it without my
players.”
Casey Stengel – The secret of leadership . . .
“is keeping those who dislike me away from
those who are still undecided.”
Bobbing for Superintendents
“Leadership Matters!”
It matters a great deal in leading a learning culture where staff and students improve in practice and
performance.
“Large National Study Strongly Links Educational Leadership to Student Achievement.”
“The rubber hits the road in the classrooms; that’s where the learning happens.
Leadership is important because is sets the conditions and the expectations in the
school that there will be excellent instruction and there will be a culture of ongoing learning for the educators and for the
students in the school.”
The Wallace Foundation, July 201029
“The role of leader is to “mobilize people to
tackle tough problems.”
Heifetz (1994)
Leadership
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, and
become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
School Leadership
What is the purpose of leadership?
What is the purpose of leadership?
“The improvement of instructional practice and performance.”
(Elmore, 2006)
What is improvement?
Improvement is increases in quality and performance
over time.
Richard Elmore, June 2006 Conference paper, OECD, (p. 6.)
Leadership Accountability
The necessary condition for success of school leaders in the future will be their capacity to improve the quality of instructional practice.
Richard Elmore, June 2006 Conference paper, OECD, (p. 6.)
Practice must be based on atheory of action.
A theory of action is a set of logically connected statements that connect the actions of leaders with their consequences for quality and performance in the organization.
They must be stated in order to be shared, and they have to be evaluated against evidence of their success in order to be judged.
(Chris Argyris and Donald Schon, 1978)
Leadership . . .
Good leaders change organizations.
Great leaders change people.
Leadership is . . .
Management view:
“Doing things right.”
Leadership View:
“Doing right things.”
Leadership is . . .
“Doing right things right.”
Kenneth Leithwood, 2004
Leading with the “Right Work”
“The right work at both the school level and the district level is to do
something that impacts the classroom.”
Waters & Marzano (2006)
Leaders of Learning
As a leader, what are the “right things” you must do to improve learning?.
What evidence do you have that you are doing the “right things – right?”
Leadership
Have you changed your three words or phrases or have they been reinforced through your table discussions?
What words or phrases would you add to your thoughts regarding the role of school leadership?