EDL 5403 «The Principalship: Educational Unit and Site Administration,» which prepares students to assume formal and
informal leadership roles in schools; and
Not exact matches
But doctoral student David Sherer is more interested
in «
informal» leaders — the people
in a
school or district who may or may not have official
leadership roles but are nonetheless prominent, and often formidable,
in the organization's social network.
I consider it a mistake to attribute
school leadership activities as only residing
in formal
roles because this denies the greater bulk of the profession opportunities to develop
leadership capacities which may lead to other
leadership activities
in the future, either formal or
informal.
While the formal or
informal leadership roles of teachers may vary
in different
schools and districts, teacher
leadership is broadly defined
in the 2011 Teacher Leader Model Standards as «the process by which teachers, individually or collectively, influence their colleagues, principals, and other members of the
school community to improve teaching and learning practices with the aim of increased student learning and achievement.»
At both district and
school levels, however, we assume
leadership is also distributed among others
in formal as well as
informal leadership roles.