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Keys To Successful 21st Century Educational

Leadership

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Chapter 15, ISLLC Standards 1-6For your Future and Beyond

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6 Focus Action Keys 1. Educational Facilitation Focus

– Facilitate the development of a cohesive learning group which values diversity and explores conflict constructively

2. Learner Focus– Understand the context in which leadership is situated– the learners’ needs, desires, and strengths and the

issues being addressed

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6 Focus Action Keys 3. Educational Leadership Focus

– Group-centered approach to leadership development

4. Issue/Action Focus– learning in action is encouraging on-going

reflection or collective self-examination



6 Focus Action Keys 5. Non-Prescriptive Educational Leadership

Focus– Content of educational leadership efforts will be

determined with and by participants

6. Process as Content Focus– Facilitation, community building, teamwork, group

planning and decision making, organizational development, conflict management, and group reflection


Visioning Leadership “Successful 21st century educational leaders will need to inspire those they

lead by establishing, implementing and assessing an attractive,

worthwhile, achievable vision of the future.”

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• Seeing Things Differently– Collect and arrange data to help create a vision

• Doing Things Differently– Synergy flows when educational leaders and their

followers work together to build and implement a vision

• Transcending Diversity– Transcend across race, gender, creed, nationality,

handicap or disability

Keys for Aspiring & Current Educational Leaders


• Answering a Higher Calling– Be the one who is able to communicate visions that

offer a goal, get a group to work together, and contribute your best toward the achievement of that vision

• Ceasing Opportunities– The force of a vision may be increased by crisis

• View crisis as a resource for a group, organization, or leader



• Accepting Reality– Understand the socially constructed reality of the

staff in order to understand how a particular vision might affect others

• Valuing the Past, But Knowing When to Leave It– Vision based on improvements, enhancements, and a

more desirable future



• Maximizing Direction– Enhance the meaning of group life and activities

• Building a Brighter Tomorrow– Move the group forward toward a particular vision

in spite of challenges and opposition


• Conflict Resolution articulated by the leader will need to correspond to that leader’s qualities, style and capabilities, for if it does not, preferred accomplishments will be jeopardized

• Be careful in being biased toward attending to the interests of followers– Such leaders will tend to de-emphasize visioning,

opting for close relationships with followers

Successful Visioning


3 Elements of Leadership

1. The Leaders

2. The Followers

3. The Environment


• The key for 21st century visioning educational leaders to hold is whether this conflict is life giving or life disabling.

• Inter-group cohesion should not be so great as to stifle healthy or constructive disagreements among groups nor hinder accomplishments so high level goals.



• The overall performance of organizations is likely to be enhanced when visioning educational leaders coordinate the performance goals of groups in such a manner that one group is not accomplishing its goals at the expense of another without concern for another



1. Long Hours• 54-80 hours each week, including evenings and weekends

2. Too Much on Your Plate• Constantly putting out fires and mending fences

3. Government Mandates and Accountability• New laws and requirements at the state and federal level are

being passed in record number without adequate funding provided

Stress Keys for Successful 21st Century Educational Leadership


4. Critical Issues of Society Brought to School• School safety, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, teen suicide,

learning difficulties, etc.

5. Surpassing Achievement Standards• Insufficient financial support for program and skills

development and a shortage of qualified curriculum directors and instructional specialists

6. Special Education Requirements• IDEA requirements, Section 504 accommodations, and other

legislative mandates



7. School Funding Issues

8. Little Financial Incentive• A new assistant principal barely makes 5% more than that

of an experience teacher

9. Inability to Fire Incompetent Teachers

10. Contractual Agreements• Constraints in employee contracts often preclude

educational leaders from making rapid change and making school improvements more expeditiously



• Education is a process that encourages continual progress through the improvement of one’s abilities, the expression of one’s interests, and the growth of one’s character

• Successful schools are a place where students, teachers, administrators, and others take pride and joy in their work

• Continuous improvement of teachers and students working together

Keys to Lasting Educational Leadership Reforms


• Continuous improvement through greater empowerment of teacher-student teams

• Reliance on tests as the major means of assessment of student production will be inherently wasteful, non-reliable, and not authentic

• Relationships built in schools that are established on trust and collaboration between school and community



• Teachers are empowered to make continuous progress in the quality of their learning and other aspects of personal development, while they learn valuable lessons from temporary failures

• Institute programs of training for new staff members unfamiliar with the specific culture and expectations of the school



• Work with teachers, parents, students, and members of the community as coaches and mentors so that students’ accomplishments will be maximized

• Create a more integrated opportunity for learning and discovery

• Collectively arrive at slogans and school themes to improve working together



• Assignments and tests that focus attention on numerical or letter grades and production completion will not fully reflect the quality of student progress and performance

• Teachers and students will want to do their best and feel pride in it

• Enrich education by e3xploring ideas and interests beyond the boundaries of professional and personal worlds



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