School Leadership

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School Leadership
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Schools are trapped by a leadership dilemma
they require skilled effective principals in
order to outgrow their utter dependence on those
principals.The ultimate principal is one who
develops his school in such a way that there are
many leaders, not only himself.

Tom Donahoe
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Principals must be instructional leaders first
and foremostbut School management must not and
cannot be ignored.
Leadership and Management are not in conflict
with each other!
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• I dont know the key to success, but the key to
  failure is trying to please everybody

Bill Cosby
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Principals establish credibility by modeling
behavior that is congruent with the vision and
values of their school

• Adhere to the golden rule of leadership..do what
  you say you will do
• Turn aspiration into actions.
  
  Have the impatience that is born of urgency and
  drive to get on with it.

• Kouzes and Posner

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• What do you think is the best way to get people
  to do things for you/the school?
• How do you like to be treated by your
• superiors and why?

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• Leadership Orientation
• What is your predominant style?

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Leadership
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Leadership

• Shared through empowerment
• InitiatingTask Accomplishment
• ConsiderationHuman Relations
• Transformational (collaborative, professionalism
  and empowerment, understanding change)
• Situational

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Leadership Goal Setting

• Achievable
• Understood
• Realistic
• Accepted by group

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Leadership Traits
Leaders possess more..

• Capacity (intelligence, alertness, verbal
  facility, originality and judgment)
• Achievement (scholarship, knowledge and athletic
  achievement)
• Responsibility (dependability, initiative,
  persistence, aggressiveness, self-confidence and
  desire to excel)
• Participation (activity, sociability,
  cooperation, adaptability and humor)
• Status (socio-economic, position and popularity)

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Principals lead through shared vision and values
rather than through rules and procedures

• Engage the faculty in the co-creation of shared
  vision and values
• Work together to find common ground and build
  consensus
• Rely on shared vision to guide school decisions
  instead of rules/regulations driven place
• The goal is to give people the direction they
  need to act autonomously through sharing school

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Principals Shape School Culture through

• Choice of staff
• Formal leadership appointments
• Working with informal leaders
• Handling conflict between formal and informal
  leaders
• Regular two-way communication

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Contingency Approach

• Leadership depends on variables such as situation
  favorableness, task specificity, leader member
  relations, leader personality, and group maturity.