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Can Instructional Leaders Be Facilitative Leaders?

By Larry Lashway - Today, prevailing views of leadership suggest that the principal's role should not be to direct others but to create a school culture in which decisions are made collaboratively. Such 'facilitative' leadership exercises power through others, not over them. The basic question is whether or not these two leadership styles are mutually exclusive. (Added: 8-Mar-2010 Hits: 231 )

Effective School Leadership Promotes Success

By Michael Striech - This article promotes the theory that school leaders determine the outcomes of educational goals. Discussed are the characteristics of strong, effective school leaders. Also discussed is the need for rescuing academics from poor leadership. (Added: 8-Mar-2010 Hits: 286 )

Inducting School Leaders

By Larry Lashway - Beginning principals are often overwhelmed by their job. Traditionally, they have been left to fend for themselves. This digest examines the challenges faced by new administrators and the steps that districts can take to provide a smooth entry into the principalship. It also describes characteristics of good induction programs. (Added: 8-Mar-2010 Hits: 202 )

Leadership for School Reform: Do Principal Decision-Making Styles Reflect a Collaborative Approach?

By Raymond B.Williams - hool reform has and will continue to be an important cornerstone of government's economic growth plans. This paper examines New Brunswick%u2019s new educational policy and a key strategy for its implementation, the transformation of schools into professional learning communities (PLCs). This transformation is based on an approach to school leadership that relies substantially on principals%u2019 capacity to adopt a collaborative leadership style. The study presented provides insight into decision making, a vital component of New Brunswick principals%u2019 leadership styles, and presents a cautiously optimistic view for the success of this latest reform. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 99 )

Performance Indicators for Effective Principal Leadership in Improving Student Achievement

By na - he Performance Indicators for Effective Principal Leadership in Improving Student Achievement have been developed by Colleen Seremet, Assistant Superintendent, Dorchester County Public Schools; Bonnie Ward, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Kent County Public Schools; Carol Williamson, Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum and Instruction, Queen Anne%u2019s County Public Schools; and Lani Hall Seikaly, Project Director for the School Improvement in Maryland Web site. The performance indicators are intended to provide clarity and specificity about the skills, beliefs, and knowledge a principal needs to demonstrate effective leadership in improving student achievement. ^new (Added: 19-Oct-2011 Hits: 108 )

The Principals' Partnership and Student Achievement

By na - Research based article makes the link between leadership characteristics of school principles and student achievement. Includes description of these principal characteristics. (Added: 31-Jul-2007 Hits: 928 )

The Strategies of a Leader

By Larry Lashway - This digest outlines the tenets of three broad leadership strategies--hierarchical, transformational, and facilitative. It offers the following guidelines for choosing leadership strategies: (1) leaders should use strategies flexibly; (2) leaders should balance short-term and long-term needs; (3) strategic choices must serve institutional values; and (4) the same action can serve more than one strategy. (Added: 8-Mar-2010 Hits: 225 )

What being a successful principal really means: an international... | AccessMyLibrary - Promoting library advocacy

By Christopher Day - This paper presents an international perspective on successful principals. Data from the International Successful School Principals' Project, now in its sixth year and presently in eight nations and over sixty schools, along with a critical review of the international literature on successful principals provide the basis for a discussion of both similarities and dissimilarities across nations. A strong values orientation relating to clear instrumental and broad moral purposes, along with other similar attributes, qualities, and strategies, recur as common denominators. Five combinations of these are identified. However, the relative emphases which are placed upon their use varies according to the principals' or their schools' phase of development and the demands of the broader policy and demographic contexts. (Added: 8-Mar-2010 Hits: 256 )