Educational Leadership

Nota:

• Define instructional leadership.

1. Distributed leadership

   Nota:

   • This is shared instructional leadership not only concerning the principal but shared with teachers as well.
   1. Central Office Admin
   2. Principals
   3. Teachers
   4. Resources

      Nota:

      • Recognizing & Using Intellectual and Experiential Resources  (Kennedy, Deuel, Nelson, & Solovit 2011)   
      1. Intellectual

         Nota:

         • What teachers know - subject expertise
      2. Experiential

         Nota:

         • What teachers have experienced - trial on error
      3. Collaboration
   5. Decisions

      Nota:

      • Differentiating top-down and lateral decision making. (Kennedy, Deuel, Nelson, & Solovit 2011)   
      1. Shared
      2. Lateral
      3. Heterarchy
   6. Culture

      Nota:

      • Building culture through dialogue and inquiry (Kennedy, Deuel, Nelson, & Solovit 2011)   
      1. PLCs
      2. Open dialogue
      3. Norms
2. Taking the responsibility for teaching and increased student learning

   Nota:

   • The actions of a leader of instructional practices. (Wahlstrom, Paul, & Michlin 2009)
   1. Instructional strategies
   2. Instructional resources
   3. Classroom management
   4. Reflective practices
   5. Assessments
   6. Data informed instruction
   7. Curriculum

Nota:

• What are the critical leadership characteristics needed to promote continuous school improvement? 

1. Shared vision & Growth Mindet

   Nota:

   • Developing a shared by stakeholders vision - administrators/teachers/students setting direction and developing people (Leithwood, Mascall, Strauss, Sacks, Memon & Yashkina 2007)
   1. Redefining the organization
      1. Supporting teachers
      2. Supporting students
   2. Activities
   3. Goals
   4. Managing the Instructional Programs
      1. Technology Resources
      2. Operation procedures
      3. Curriculum Resources
   5. Clarity of roles within shared leadership

Nota:

• What are the organizational factors that impede or ameliorate leadership efforts?

1. Principal Plus

   Nota:

   • Multiple individuals are responsible for leading learning in our schools not just the principal (Spillane, 2009)    
   1. Teachers
   2. Principals
   3. Coaches
2. Practice

   Nota:

   • The work in leading and managing learning. (Spillane, 2009)    
   1. SMEs

      Nota:

      • Build capacity
3. Impediments
   1. Top-down decisions only
   2. Burnt out teachers
   3. Helicopter Community Efforts
   4. Micromanagement
   5. Resistors
   6. Closed dialogue
   7. Toxic culture
   8. High turn over (teacher/admin)
4. Ameliorate
   1. Shared leadership
   2. Community of learning
   3. Implicit bias

      Nota:

      • Be aware and acknowledge implicit associations race, gender, disability, etc. of all stakeholders 
   4. Embrace Change
   5. Partner/Collaborator
      1. Community
      2. Teachers
      3. Administrators
      4. Students
   6. Take actionable steps of shared visions

      Nota:

      • "Talk is cheap" p. 4 (Spillane, 2009)
   7. Systemic changes
      1. Leaders/Followers
      2. Instructional practices
      3. Teaching/Learning
      4. Cultural
   8. Develop people

      Nota:

      • Professional learning opportunities to develop internal capacities