Developing Principled Educational Leaders

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Developing Principled Educational Leaders
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Elevator Speech

• Developing Principled Educational Leaders for
  P-12 Schools is the mission of The Citadels
  Professional Education Unit.
• Our goal is to develop leaders into
  knowledgeable, reflective, and ethical
  professionals committed to ensuring that all
  students succeed in a learner-centered
  environment.

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What do we mean by a principled educational
leader?
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• Possessing the necessary knowledge and skills of
  an educational leader does not ensure that those
  skills and that knowledge will be used for
  principled or moral purposes.
• (A surgeons skill can be used to kill as well as
  cure.)

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As Michael Fullan suggests

• Principled leadership has a spiritual dimension.
• Principled behavior is connected to something
  greater than ourselves and relates to human and
  social development.

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The leader as a heroic, solitary, rugged
individual who saves the day through larger than
life activities is NOT what we are about.
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The Citadels principled educational leader is
the quiet leader who

• Through careful, thoughtful, and practical
  efforts makes a difference in the lives of
  their students, in the places where they work,
  and in the larger community of which they are a
  part.

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Quiet leadership is what moves and changes
the world.
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The principled educational leader is the quiet
leader who

• knows her inner spirit
• acts carefully,
• thoughtfully, and
• persistently
• to improve the educational environment.

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This vision of the principled educational leader
resonates with what Jim Collins (Good to Great)
refers to as Level Five Leadership.
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Level 5 leaders are

• Often self effacing, quiet, reserved, even
  shy,
• They are more like Lincoln or Socrates than
  Patton or Caesar.

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At The Citadel, our goal is

• To develop principled educational leaders who
  weave knowledge, reflection, and ethics together
  to create a powerful, learner-centered community.