The Vision
The School as a Learning Community
- Vision - provides a sense of direction. What the school stands for
- Values - provides the 'rightness' of the Vision
- Leadership - provides focus, courage and empowerment
- Clear Expectations - allows trust delegation and self appraisal
- Teamwork - creates consistency and utilises collegial creativity and intelligence
- Continual Quality Improvemment - growth against agreed expectations
Bruce Hammonds
Key Ingredients for a Powerful Vision
- Needs to be initiated by Leaders
- Must be shared by all to be a vision community
- Must be comprehensive and detailed. People must know: how, why, what, and when.
- Must be positive and inspiring - it must be worth the effort.
From Joel Barker
The change process - each needs a different Leadership Style
- Bargaining: the push to get going, developing a social contract
- Building: providing support to handle uncertainty, raising expectations
- Bonding: achieving moral commitment to Quality
- Banking: conserving energy, monitoring, constantly innovating
- Also 'Leadership by outrage': if members let the team down
- 'Building in Canvas': doing unimportant things badly!
From Sergiovanni
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