The distributed perspective helps us understand
how leadership practice links to instructional improvement, however organizations define the nature such improvement.
To date, our work using the distributed perspective has demonstrated the ways that leaders co-construct leadership activity,
how leadership practice connects and fails to connect with instructional change, why teachers heed or ignore the guidance of school leaders, and how leadership is practiced differently in different school subjects (e.g. mathematics versus language arts).
Not exact matches
Procter & Gamble is a good example of
how a company can overhaul its promotion
practices to better align with inclusivity goals: Through an extensive
leadership development strategy, it raised its percentage of women managers from 40 to 44 percent between 2008 and 2013.
These deeper
leadership behaviors and cultural
practices affect
how Millennials feel about their place in the organization and
how long they choose to stay.»
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the senior associate dean for
leadership studies and Lester Crown professor of management
practice at the Yale School of Management, and author of Firing Back:
How CEOs Rebound From Career Disasters.
Perhaps it's no wonder, then, that two of the most revered
leadership books of all time — Steven R. Covey's «The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People» and Dale Carnegie's «
How to Win Friends and Influence People» — are bibles of empathic
practice.
Author, neuropsychologist, and
leadership expert Friederike Fabritius joins
Leadership in Action hosts Mike Useem and Jeff Klein to discuss
how neuroscience is profoundly changing the methods and
practices that businesses will be using for
leadership training and development.
Finally, the answers made to these two types of questions will interconnect in complex ways with answers made to the question of
how the school as community is related to church communities: Is the school itself an ordered Christian congregation; is it an expanded version of the academic aspect of the work of ministerial
leadership in a settled congregation; is it an agency for the extension education of
practicing clergy?
Participants study gender roles,
leadership theories and
practices,
how to advocate for socially responsible policies, write policy, public speaking, networking and
how to read a budget.
The program examines four
leadership themes — school improvement, instructional
practice, student / adult connections, and motivation and engagement strategies — and looks at
how to adapt and implement specific
leadership strategies.
I invite you to investigate
how leading with empathy, challenging assumptions, and making experiments happen can deepen your teaching or
leadership practices.
The book gives examples of
how researchers and practitioners can understand and connect more directly to
leadership practice, and
how studying the day - to - day
practice of
leadership is important for those interested in improving schools.
The new book, Distributed
Leadership in
Practice, edited by Assistant Professor John Diamond and Northwestern University Professor James P. Spillane, explores
how a distributed perspective is different from other frameworks for thinking about
leadership in schools.
Q:
How does the
practice of
leadership raise teachers» expectations and increase their sense of responsibility of student achievement?
The distributed perspective allows us to study and understand
how leadership activity gets accomplished — the day - to - day
practice of
leadership.
Diamond recently discussed
how distributed
leadership can impact teachers» instruction and
practice in schools.
How leadership is shaped and
practiced is therefore highly contextualised.
Learn
how your central office can build a principal
leadership team that: • Strengthens the entire corps of principals through a collaborative community of
practice and peer support.
It has also established and continues to sustain a vibrant learning community of experienced principals, who work with the research team to explore
how insights and images of
practice for 21st century learning and
leadership may speak beyond the boundaries of ISV and inspire schools around the globe.
In addition to examining the intersection of race and educational policy, Diamond also has written about «distributed
leadership» — a way of understanding
how multiple actors are involved in
leadership and
how leaders have an impact on instructional
practice.
How do the
practices identified as helpful by teachers and principals compare with our current formulation of core
leadership practices?
One plausible explanation is that our measure of
leadership practices did not adequately capture the consequences of different levels of efficacy (or confidence) for what leaders do and
how they are perceived.
With the knowledge that instructional
leadership is the primary engine behind teacher effectiveness, the authors demonstrate
how to support classroom
practices that raise student achievement.
Their yearlong effort to build schoolwide civic learning illustrates
how civics can be an effective conduit for connecting curriculum and
leadership practices: School improvement becomes both a collective endeavor and a means for teaching active citizenship.
By reference to a qualitative data set, this section discloses who enacts which
practices,
how different patterns of
leadership enactment emerge, and whether variation in such patterns makes a difference for schools and students.
Much current research about instructional
leadership is focused on distributed
leadership125 or on the leader «s content knowledge.126 Meanwhile, questions about
how and when the principal might best engage with a teacher to address specific
practices used by effective teachers have been under - researched.
If you want to know more about this new tool and learn
how to identify «next steps» in growing your instructional
leadership practice, join our live webinar on April 21 with CEL Associate Director June Rimmer.
In this fourth webinar on the 4 Dimensions of Instructional
Leadership ™, school leaders learn
how to use a cycle of inquiry as a means of strengthening instruction and
leadership through collecting and analyzing data, developing areas of focus, learning and implementing new strategies to improve
practice, and analyzing the impact of the new
practices.
How does a principal bring effective
practices to scale in a school, creating the environment of collective responsibility and shared
leadership that increases student learning?
The detailed literature review and guidebook for district
leadership, called the Principal Talent Management Framework, looks at
how school districts can evaluate policies and
practices and ensure they align with elements of principal effectiveness.
A sociologist of education, he studies the relationship between social inequality and educational opportunity examining
how educational
leadership, policies, and
practices shape students» educational opportunities and outcomes.
This session engages participants in an exploration of research and
practices to identify
how some states are taking advantage of opportunities available within ESSA to support school
leadership.
Articles will address such topics as the qualities and skills today's school leaders need; strengths and weaknesses of current
leadership preparation programs; and
how practices like internships, coaching, and teams can support new leaders.
How Adlai Stevenson High School District near Chicago, Illinois, evolved from «already adequate» to world - class status — through
leadership practices that any school leader could immediately benefit from and by making a religion of teamwork and teacher
leadership.
focused on teacher leaders as instructional leaders and
how districts can enable successful teacher
leadership to improve standards - aligned instructional
practices.
The best way to get started with the framework is to assess
how the «ideal vision» of the 4D aligns with your current instructional
leadership practice.
Issues within the field of distributed
leadership are (re) exposed and a discussion on
how democratic and student voice
leadership practices can theoretically address the criticisms aimed at distributed
leadership theory and
practice.
In this session we'll discuss
how to tell when professional development is clicking for your teachers; ways to efficiently plan for budget and resource allocation; and
how to connect the dots — from
leadership performance, instructional
practice, and student achievement — to create a big picture that works for your entire educational community.
Further research into the mechanisms behind these experiences would provide the education community with better information as to
how to incorporate these experiences into policy and
practice and improve schools through principal
leadership.
It helps identify
how strengths and weaknesses in classroom teaching, principal instructional
leadership, and central office
practice, structures, and systems are contributing to students» current performance.
We'd like to share six
practices we've developed that make our meetings work — peppered with some examples of
how our collaboration has improved our
leadership and our schools.
The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd has produced a new CenterView, focused on teacher leaders as instructional leaders and
how districts can enable successful teacher
leadership to improve standards - aligned instructional
practices.
Instructional coaches, who work closely with classroom teachers to improve their
practice, are an important source of school
leadership, but teachers often don't know
how to capitalize on this relatively new position in education.
Improve your
leadership practice by reflecting on where you are now and
how to best move forward.
Her dissertation research examined
how teachers in high - poverty schools understand and enact
practices in response to the Common Core and
how principals»
leadership, teachers» collaboration with colleagues, and opportunities for professional development relate to this process.
See
how other principals and school leaders have shaped and improved their
leadership practice and learn
how their techniques could apply to your education setting.
Cottage Grove Principal Iton Udosenata shares
how working with his superintendent, Krista Parent, has improved his instructional
leadership skills and
how he is improving instructional
practices among his teachers.
As each presenter shares
how they have implemented exemplary
leadership practices, participants will see
how the five key
practices can not be viewed as isolated skills or standards.
Learn
how NISL has adapted best
practices in military
leadership development to help states and districts address the three biggest issues in school
leadership in this article for the National School Boards Association publication, The State Education Standard.
Using one case study from sports (the Vancouver Giants hockey team) and one from education (Hackney Schools Borough in London, England), the authors illustrate
how the six components of uplifting
leadership combine the hard and soft skills that are often set against each other in traditional
leadership practice: counterintuitive thinking combined with disciplined application; dreaming with determination; collaboration with competition; metrics with meaning; pushing and pulling people into change; and long - term sustainability with short - term success.