Transformative leadership in education hinges on fostering collaborative relationships, emphasizing mentorship between experienced and novice teachers, and encouraging a growth mindset where errors are seen as opportunities for development.
The single largest condition for success in education- fostered through behaviours.
Principalship
Principals play a critical role in creating successful schools- ensure that the quality of teaching and learning opportunities are being supported in the school, less focus on the politics of the school system.
The Digital Dimension
Teachers and students are required to engage as innovative co-learners.
Transparency
To uncover what is positively impacting students: monitor transparency of practice and results
Teamness
Social Capital: mentorship between experienced and novice teachers. For large-scale cultural change, leaders need to support, facilitate and maintain collaborative relationships
Next Steps
Good leadership examples need to be captured and shared, at all three levels of leadership: school, district, and ministry levels
Change
While exploring the fear of change: get the fear out in the open, create and rovide non-risk atmospheres and work through the new learning environment in small doses. Completing this process- see the new possibilities for success and be willing to take more risks.
Theory of Action
1) Capacity Building Focused on Results 2) Learning in Context 3) Professional Learning Communities 4) Lateral Capacity Building 5) De-privatization Precision 6) System Identity 7) Transparency
Innovative Pedagogy
developing students critical literacy through innovative pedagogy
Leadership Qualities
Lifelong learner, personal persistence, resilient, builders of social capital
The Growth Mindset
Selecting the "right drivers" to make change happen. Regarding errors as opportunities for growth is what successful leaders do.