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Some leadership models and how they might relate to education in the Cloud
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Karl Donert, Director: Innovative Learning Network Ltd. [email protected] Leadership Models School on the Cloud WG1 meeting, Lithuania, December 15-17 2014
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Karl Donert, Director: Innovative Learning Network [email protected]
Leadership Models
School on the Cloud WG1 meeting, Lithuania, December 15-17 2014
Leadership and
Management
• Leadership and management are two
distinctive, complementary action systems
• Each has its own functions and
characteristic activities.
• Both are necessary for success
• Leadership and management have
different functions and activities
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Management practices
• Effective managers carry out four essential
management practices:
– they plan
– they organize
– they implement
– they monitor and evaluate
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Management practices
• Plan:– Professionals who manage - plan how to
achieve desired results and document these activities in form of a workplan with set objectives and outputs
• Organize:– Professionals who manage - make sure that
resources are available for planned activities and that the necessary structures and systems exist
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The Four Management
practices
• Implement:
– Professionals who manage - execute and delegate execution of planned activities, coordinating multiple efforts to achieve desired results
• Monitor and evaluate:
– Professionals who manage - track activities, outputs, and results and compare them with what was planned and collect feed-back
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Good management goes
with good leadership
• Mangers must learn to focus their people's
energy and resources on achieving
sustainable results that satisfy the clients
• Professionals who manage support their
staff and change ways of working in order
to overcome obstacles
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Leadership Practices
• In contrast to management, leadership has
four main practices:
–Scanning
–Focusing
–Aligning and Mobilizing
– Inspiring
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Leadership and management
• Peter Matthews produces some very relevant and interesting distinctions between leadership and management in education
• Q. Does a hierarchy model work with implementing the Cloud in education?
• Q. In groups consider what aspects of the leadership taxonomy are most important to influence …. What is the best way to do this.
1. HOW DOES LEADERSHIP DIFFER FROM MANAGEMENT?
View 1. Distinction (Kotter 1990)
• “Management is about producing order and consistency”– Minimum operating standards– Quality assurance; monitoring, evaluation etc.
• “Leadership is about generating constructive change”– Raising expectations, doing things better
HOW DOES LEADERSHIP DIFFER FROM MANAGEMENT?
View 2. Hierarchy (Collins 2001)
Level 5: EXECUTIVE – Leaders build greatness through a paradoxical
blend of personal humility and professional will.
Level 4: EFFECTIVE LEADER – Catalyses commitment to and clear pursuit
of a clear and compelling vision stimulating higher performance standards.
Level 3: COMPETENT MANAGER – Organises people and resources toward the
effective and efficient pursuit of predetermined objectives.
Level 2: CONTRIBUTING TEAM MEMBER – Contributes individual capabilities to
the achievement of group objectives and works effectively with others.
Level 1: HIGHLY CAPABLE INDIVIDUAL – Makes productive contributions through
talent, knowledge, skills, and good work habits.
A TAXONOMY OF LEADERSHIP (1)
1. Leaders as managers; administering; assuring compliance; taking responsibility for buildings and day to day organisation
2. Leaders as leaders of people; team leaders; the school community
3. Pedagogical leaders; taking responsibility for pedagogy and shaping the curriculum
4. Accountable leaders; taking responsibility for the educational performance of the school and standards reached by students
5. Community leaders; working with and involving parents, other agencies and the community
A TAXONOMY OF LEADERSHIP (2)
6. Distributive and developmental leaders; delegating responsibility and accountability, challenging and supporting, and developing leadership potential
7. Leaders of learning; developing the skills of staff and students and parents as a learning community and networking with other schools to share good practice
8. Executive leaders; taking responsibility for more than one school
9. System leaders; schools leading schools; caring for the education and well-being of students in other schools as well as one’s own
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Not all the areas will want to or be able to collaborate via the Cloud Some collaborative projects will
embrace the Cloud and run with it.
Some projects chose to run independent of the Cloud.
Right now the Cloud appears too esoteric for some projects to embrace
The early adopters will be key to seeding the concept and demonstrating its merits.
School
Cloud implementation model
What aspects of leadership are most important at different phases of implementation?
