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Role of Instructional
Leadership
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Purpose of Session
Explore the term Instructionalleadership and what it means toour roles
Examine research of what iseffective instructional leadership
Link instructional leadership to
the current agenda regardingimprovement, improvementimprovement ..
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What is it?
Educational leadership
Curriculum leadership
Leader of learning
Transformation leadership
Transactional leadership
Its whats behind the title that
matters!
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Background
Most popular theme inleadership over the last twodecades
Origins in Northern America
Despite its popularity it is oftennot clearly defined
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Instructional leadership
Instruction = the process or actof teaching: education
Leadership = a person whorules, guides, or inspires others
Collins Dictionary
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Leadership Matters!
A highly effective school leader
can have a dramatic influenceon the overall academic
achievement of students.Michael Fullan 2005
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Leadership Matters even more!
It is now more than 20 yearssince leadership was identifiedas one of the key components of
good schools by HMI, whostated that, without exception,the most important single factorin the success of these schoolsis the quality of the leadership ofthe head.
Dept of Education & Science
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Why the importance of thistype of leadership?
Improved classroom
instruction is the prime factor
to produce studentachievement gainsOdden & Wallace
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Why the importance of thistype of leadership?
Another great irony of public schooling isthat the office of curriculum and instructiontraditionally has so little influence on.curriculum and instruction. Results Now M Schmoker
Too much of the educational leadershipliterature is long on harmony,consensus and sentiment, feel goodpressures that float high above the hardfundamental necessities of schoolleadership. Most especially, leaders needpractical ways to monitor and require-effective instruction and high qualitycurriculum. Results Now M Schmoker
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Why the importance of thistype of leadership?
When leadership is focused on
results, on urging a formal,frequent review of the impact of
instruction, teaching improves.Results Now M Schmoker
For school improvement to
occur instructional leadershipneeds to be in existence.
A Mission of the Heart, Public Agenda
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What are the elements ofInstructional Leadership
Resource provider, instructionalresource, communicator and visiblepresence (Smith and Andrews)
Encourager, facilitator of the study ofteaching and learning, facilitator ofcollaborative efforts amongstteachers, establishing coachingrelationships with teachers, using
research to make instructionaldecisions & using adult learningprinciples (Blas & Blas)
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What are the elements ofInstructional Leadership contd
Direct assistance to teachers intheir day to day activities,development of collaborative
groups amongst staff, designingeffective staff development,curriculum development, & use
of action researchGlickman, Gordon and Ross-Gordon
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What are the elements ofInstructional Leadership contd
Defining schools mission, managingcurriculum and instruction, &promoting a positive school climate
Hallinger, Murphy et al
Understands effective practices incurriculum, instruction andassessment and the ability to work
with teachers on the day to dayproblems that relate to these topics.
Elmore
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Process
Define Instructional Leadership
Share with partner
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Leadership Matters!
Sustainable leadership doesnt
equivocate. It puts learning atthe centre of everything leaders
do. Students learning comesfirst, then everyone elses in
support of it.
Stoll, Fink and Earl 2003
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Instructional LeadershipPractice :Viviane Robinson 2007
Establishing goals and expectations
Strategic resourcing
Planning, coordinating and
evaluating teaching and thecurriculum
Promoting and participating in
teacher learning and development Ensuring an orderly and supportive
environment
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Instructional Leadershipcharacteristics : David Hopkins
Ability to articulate vision andvalues about student learningand achievement, and to make
connections to behaviour Understanding of pedagogy
Understanding of development
and maintenance Strategic orientation and to plan
medium term
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Instructional Leadershipcharacteristics contd: David Hopkins
Understanding capacity and its rolein sustaining change
A commitment to promoting enquiry:
the how rather than the what Commitment to professional
development and managing ateachers life cycle
Ability to engender trust and providepositive reinforcement
C
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Focus onLearning
Think
Systemically
Connections to DIAf
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What does instructionalleadership look like?
If you were to go into a school/preschool where there iseffective instructional leadership
what would you see, feel, hear? Make a list of 8-10 concrete
bits of evidence?
Would it look different in thedifferent sectors ie preschool,primary, secondary?
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School improvement is mostsurely and thoroughly achievedwhen teachers engage in
frequent, continuous andincreasingly concrete talk aboutteaching practices... capable ofdistinguishing one practice and
it's virtue from another.Judith Warren