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Elements of Leadership

Strong leadership is essential for innovative schools. Effective school leaders articulate a clear vision that shapes the entire school community and culture. They engage stakeholders and set meaningful goals to drive continuous improvement. Key elements of leadership include developing strategies around vision, culture, capacity, team-building, community engagement, finances, and performance measurement. Leaders must consider all aspects of the school to successfully implement new practices and technologies that support learning.

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Elements of Leadership

Strong leadership is essential for innovative schools. Effective school leaders articulate a clear vision that shapes the entire school community and culture. They engage stakeholders and set meaningful goals to drive continuous improvement. Key elements of leadership include developing strategies around vision, culture, capacity, team-building, community engagement, finances, and performance measurement. Leaders must consider all aspects of the school to successfully implement new practices and technologies that support learning.

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ELEMENTS OF

LEADERSHIP
By:
Sheilla D.S Habab, MA
St. Paul University Manila

INTRODUCTION
- All around the world, the most innovative schools we know
have something in common- STRONG LEADERSHIP.
- Their leaders are deeply committed to exploring all possibilities
and bridging the gap between students’ current lives and the
future that they will graduate into.
- Their vision shapes the entire school community and the school
culture.
- These leaders are excellent communicators.
- They engage all stakeholders.
- They set meaningful goals to identify progress, celebrate
success, make adjustments, and continuously innovate.

The Elements of
Leadership
-Developing strategies for vision,
culture, capacity, team, community,
finance, and measure– is the work of
leaders.
-These elements help you drive and
shape innovation in learning,
teaching, and the school
environment.
LEADERSHIP SNAPSHOT
- Take some time to assess
the elements of leadership
in the context of change
you want to make in your
school.
- This is an example of an
activity to start planning
discussion, align your team
around common definitions,
and determine your
priorities.

GUIDING QUESTIONS:
1. Have you articulated your vision for learning,
teaching, and your school environment?
2. Have you identified aspects of your culture that
will help you move forward?
3. Have you identified your community’s capacity
for change and available resources?
4. Have you assembled a strategic team of
innovators and influencers to plan, implement,
and evangelize their work?

GUIDING QUESTIONS:
5. Haveyou created a plan to engage
your immediate and extended
community?
6. Have you built a finance plan that’s
stable and sustainable?
7. Have you identified key goals that
align with your vision so you can measure
your progress?
-Innovative leaders approach change
holistically.
- They are proactive about the work, see
around corners, and consider all aspects of
their schools when implementing something
new.
-When leaders leverage technology to design
new learning, teaching, and an innovative
environment, they also consider the
foundations that these are built on.

VISION
- A clear vision captures your school’s aspirations for
learning, teaching, and the school environment. - A
bold vision guides the decisions you make as you
introduce change; it keeps you focused every step
along the way.
- Your vision might be to empower students as problem-

solvers and creators in a changing world, or it could be


to provide a unique learning experience for every
student.
- It could be to help students become global citizens or
build skills that prepare them for a global workforce.

CULTURE
-Take time to understand your school’s culture to anticipate how
your community reacts to change.
- Culture influences every aspect of your school.
- It shapes the way your faculty, staff, students and parents
interact with each other, and what they expect of you as a
leader.
- Culture has a tangible feel too: it manifests in what classrooms
look like, what happens in the hallways of your school, and how
your faculty meetings unfold.
- Culture is deeply ingrained and predictable; It is stable because
it is built over time and is greater that the sum of the individuals in
your community.

CAPACITY
-Assess the growth potential of people, programs, and systems
before you adopt, implement, and expand new practices. -
When leaders are proactive about building capacity, the school
community feels prepared to implement change.
- You can build the capacity of individuals if you prioritize your
goals, clearly define your expectations, and communicate your
commitment to support the growth you expect.
- Consider your leadership team members. What are their areas of
expertise, and how can you help them further develop these or
other areas?
- What are the strengths of your faculty members? What support
do they need to grow?

TEAM
-A team of influencers and innovators help map out and
implement your vision and keep the community
engaged.
- The spark behind schoolwide innovation is often ignited
by one or two passionate individuals.
- Your team of innovators and influencers will help plan,
implement, inspire, and keep the community engaged. -
Successful teams are built on trust. They create
conditions where individual ideas are heard, built upon,
challenged, and debated.

COMMUNITY
-Community buy-in and support help you build, sustain,
and inspire the momentum behind continuous innovation.
- The spark of innovation in schools often comes from
visionary leadership.
- It is the community that builds momentum behind the
commitment to continuous innovation.
- Successful leadership teams build consensus around
their vision so it is owned and carried out by students,
teachers, parents, staff, board members, the town, local
businesses, government.

FINANCE
-Bringing technology into your school is more than
a one-time event.
- You are creating new opportunities for learning,
teaching, and the school environment that need
to be financially sustained and developed over
time.
- We see the most innovative schools- even those
with limited budgets- prioritizing student and

faculty technology resources and building a


financial model around that priority.
MEASURE
- Identifying your goals and how to measure
progress toward them helps you share successes
and identify areas to improve.
- Establishing ongoing opportunities to measure a
range of practices will help you track your
progress and support continuous innovation.
- Schools that are most successful in doing this
identify the changes they want to see, determine
how will they capture results, commit resources
and time to measurement, and plan how they will
share their progress.

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