Title: Ch 1 The Leadership Challenge, Fenwick English
1Chapter 1 (Dr. Fenwick W. English)The Art of
Educational LeadershipBalancing Performance and
Accountability
- The Leadership Challenge
- Mist M. Morgan
- William Allan Kritsonis, PhD
2The Science of Leadership vs. The Art of
Leadership
- Science Taught measured by lectures,
textbooks, and licensure exams - Art Measured by practice (learning by doing)
- - modeling
- - observation
- - must pass the test of credibility in
real schooling situations
3Leaders and Leadership are Universal in the Human
Experience
- Partial Leadership Informal or indigenous
leaders within an organization. - Grassroots political organizer Saul Alinsky
(1909-1972) was a firm believer than leadership
within an organization could exist within the
rank and file, not just at the head. In order for
an organization to be effective,
organizers/persons had to know who the true
leaders were.
Point to PonderWhen have you experienced partial
leadership in your professional or personal life?
Somewhere in your past, people looked up to you
for your thoughts or deeds. This partial
leadership experience (if it were positive)
undoubtedly led you to pursue the path to
complete leadership.
4Guiding Question What is the path to
transformation in becoming a complete leader?
- Formal Academic Study (Pedagogy and Practice)
- Internship in a real educational setting complete
with mentoring opportunity for practice - Continuation of your personal and professional
growth - Internship as a part of the path to complete
leadership is critical- - leadership candidates need an opportunity to try
out the skills and - knowledge acquired in the university classroom.
5The Path to Complete Leadership, contd.
- A Purposive Construction of Self
- Emerging leaders must carefully construct a
public version of their persona, - referred to ask the Mask of Command
- When we are leading, we are acting out a role,
hence leadership is an art form - The art of leadership is a public performance
that unlike acting, it requires the necessary
background and skills necessary to do the job - Key to the art of leadership is the emerging
leaders ability to constantly reinvent
themselves, particularly in the face of defeat
Point to Ponder Think about the leaders you have
known when technology, standards, or
approaches/measures to learning have changed, how
has the leaders ability to change or reinvent
themselves contributed to their success or
failure?
6The Path to Complete Leadership, contd.
- The Importance of Individual Agency
- Individual agency represents the man on a
mission one person driven by their own
commitment, ideals, a mission, or a cause to make
a difference - Leaders are made, not born much of what we come
to know about leaders (or believe) is actually
constructed by his or her followers
7The Path to Complete Leadership, contd.
Science
Art
Common Elements
8Leadership vs. Management
- Manager A maintenance role seeks to improve the
functions of the current organization. A manager
is bound to the organization, maintains a
conservative outlook, and is slow to accept
change (possible threat to existence) - Leader Primary function is to change the
organization - Managers are the least likely to affect
significant change within an organization.
Change, when initiated by management, is
considered to be more tinkering than real
transformation. - W. Edwards Deming (father of TQM) indicated that
significant change in an organization can never
be brought without outside intervention. A
system cannot fully understand itself.
9Activity Reform vs. Refinement?
Block Scheduling Cooperative Learning
Performance Pay Curriculum Alignment
Looping Vouchers Charter Schools
Parental Involvement Strategic Planning
Writing Across the Curriculum Phonics
The Middle School Constructivist Teaching
Accountability Zero-Based Budgeting
Group Counseling Clinical Supervision
Gifted Education Team Teaching
Differentiated Instruction De-tracking
10Leadership vs. Management, contd.
- Sowhich persona is better for schools? Leaders
or Managers? - Fenwick English
- Schools are in desperate need of both leaders
- and managersLeadership is necessary to
organizational growth - and change. If an organization is not managed, it
cannot be - led well.
- Leadership and management, though different, must
work in - tandem to effectively run a school.
11Conclusion and Final Considerations
- Partial leadership experiences guide us to desire
to be a complete leader. The path to complete
leadership includes - Formal academic study, internship experience, and
personal/professional growth - Purposive construction of self
- Individual agency
- Management and leadership capacity
- Final Points to Ponder
- Are we as educators performing more in a
management or a leadership capacity? - Do you agree with English that the path to
complete leadership must pass through the
internship phase/process? - Do our own dissertation proposals seek to advance
pedagogy practice from a leadership or
managerial standpoint?