But what are the components of programs that effectively prepare emerging principals to serve
as leaders of learning in 21st - century schools?
Dr. Robert Marzano's
Leaders of Learning Program on iObservation is part of the Marzano Suite for Connecting Teacher Growth to Student Achievement and is required for all observers using the Marzano Protocol.
The School of Education at Drake University is a diverse community of collaborative learners dedicated to the preparation, licensure, advancement, and continuing education of teachers, counselors, school administrators, human resource development professionals, and other educational
leaders of learning communities.
In the video, Ciara Duffy,
Leader of Learning at St Clare's Catholic High School in Hassall Grove, explains that the program is much more student - centred.
Transformational
leaders of learning in the 21st century build understanding of new learning ecosystems that shift how, when, and where learning occurs, who is engaged in supporting students, and how results are measured.
This is the driving force, for example, behind Ontario's Teacher Learning and Leadership Program8 and Saskatchewan's Facilitator Community.9 Both programs position teachers as not only leaders of their own learning but
leaders of the learning of their peers.
Breakspear, S, Peterson, A, Alfadala, A & Khair, M 2017 Developing
agile leaders of learning: School Leadership policy for dynamic times, Qatar Foundation.
Alongside the focus on teaching they are also honing their skills of dialogue and feedback as they become
recognised Leaders of Learning within the school - empowered and enabled to share their expertise working with other teachers.
Collaborative Learning Educators routinely engage in collaborative learning in various settings, and SRI provides professional development for members and
leaders of these learning communities, offering multiple strategies and tools to help insure their success.
Yet study after study has shown that the training principals typically receive in university programs and from their own districts doesn't do nearly enough to prepare them for their roles
as leaders of learning.
Jo Earp: Professor Stephen Dinham will be delivering the opening keynote — titled Being
a Leader of Learning and Teaching — at EPPC 2017, which is hosted by the Australian Council for Educational Research.
So, one of the keys things that I stress is that being
a leader of learning and teaching you need to understand the research evidence on that, so that leaders can work with staff in schools to identify priorities, plan for professional learning, put into place various changes and so forth.
HGSE's second HarvardX offering,
Leaders of Learning, taught by Professor Richard Elmore, begins on July 8, 2014.
I believe the principal's role is to be
the leader of learning.
Leaders of Learning: How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement.
How do we lead
the leaders of learning communities?
The leader of a learning institution should be the model of what learning looks like.
When you are called to be «everything to your scholars and staff — everything,» as one of our clients said: to be
a leader of learning, organize and manage complex bureaucratic systems systems, and create a sense of vision and urgency with multiple stakeholders, while at the same time noticing you're having trouble picking up your dry cleaning?
More recently, the Wallace Foundation has determined that effective principals are «
leaders of learning» with five key responsibilities within their schools:
His books include The Art and Science of Teaching,
Leaders of Learning, Making Classroom Assessments Reliable and Valid, The Classroom Strategies Series, Managing the Inner World of Teaching, Handbook for High Reliability Schools, Handbook for Personalized Competency - Based Education, and The Highly Engaged Classroom.
Teachers need to be given the permission to try different instructional approaches and students need to understand that they are
leaders of their learning.
The Leaders of Learning Program is the professional development for district and school leaders to skillfully use the Marzano Observation and Feedback Protocol for supervising and supporting effective teachers in every classroom.
Marzano Protocol Professional Development:
The Leaders of Learning Program — Support Professional Development for effective teachers using the Marzano Observation and Feedback Protocol
Rebecca is one of the featured principals in the 2001 Video Journal of Education production, «Leadership in an Age of Standards and High Stakes» and is the lead consultant and featured principal in the 2003 program, «Elementary Principals as
Leaders of Learning.»
Traditional Principal Supervision Consider the traditional focus of instructional leadership, as described by Richard DuFour and Robert Marzano in their book,
Leaders of Learning: How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement (2011):
You're motivator of the masses, sourcer of the skilled, treasurer of the talent,
leader of the learning, curator of the culture.