Introduction
School Improvement
Leadership
Learning Processes
Key Assumptions
100
This means broad-based, skillful involvement in the work of leadership.
What is building leadership capacity?
100
This is the process of changing school culture.
What is school improvement?
100
This is a broad concept, not just a person, role, or set of individual behaviors.
What is school leadership?
100
Schools must clarify values and beliefs through lots of ________________.
What is conversation?
100
Leadership is not a trait theory. (Leadership and ________ are NOT the same.)
What is a leader?
200
This is the first of two critical conditions necessary in order to establish enduring leadership capacity.
What is a significant number of skillful teacher leaders?
200
This is something teachers must be committed to do in order the achieve school improvement.
What is change their practice?
200
Something that engages and pulls others into the work of leadership.
What is a wave of energy and purpose?
200
This means examining or generating information (data) that could point to whether or not pupils are learning.
What is inquire into practice?
200
Leadership is about ______________ that leads to constructive change.
What is learning?
300
This is the second of the two critical conditions necessary in order to establish enduring leadership capacity.
What is commitment?
300
Research has shown that within improving schools leadership is _________ and __________.
What is shared and distributed?
300
Leadership is not about an individual leader. It speaks to a ____________ broader than the individual leader.
What is a group?
300
When constructing meaning, a school decides upon the __________ that fit the issue or problem the school faces.
What are strategies?
300
____________ has the potential and right to work as a leader.
What is a everyone?
400
These are the two critical dimensions of the two critical conditions...
What are breadth of involvement and understandings/skillfulness of those involved?
400
Effective leaders ____________ rather than dictate improvement and create learning communities within their schools.
What is orchestrate?
400
Leadership is about learning together, constructing meaning and knowledge ____________ and ___________. (Hint: two adverbs)
What is collectively and collaboratively?
400
School improvement is ____________, not "one size fits all," meaning it must match the needs of each individual school.
What is custom-built?
400
Leading is a ____________ endeavor.
What is shared?
500
These allow other teachers to capture the imagination of their colleagues, enable them to negotiate real changes in their own schools and to tackle the inevitable conflicts that arise from such courageous undertakings.
What are the skills of leadership?
500
This philosophy is at the core of successful school improvement. It is a form of leadership that is about learning together and constructing meaning collectively and collaboratively.
What is constructivist leadership?
500
Leadership is a _____________ responsibility.
What is shared?
500
Leadership processes must enable participants to engage in a purpose made real by the collaboration of committed adults. This is called a __________ __________ of ___________.
What is a shared sense of purpose?
500
Leadership requires the redistribution of _________ and authority.
What is power?
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