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Creating the Desired Future SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
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Frameworks for Leadership
Working Together, Shaping the Future

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"(Leadership) is learning together, and constructing meaning and knowledge collectively and collaboratively. School leadership needs to be a broad concept that is separated from person, role, and a discrete set of individual behaviors. It needs to be embedded in the school community as a whole."

Linda Lambert
Building Capacity in Schools (1998)

Building Leadership Capacity
As a leader you can build leadership capacity by:
  • Modeling the Way
  • Encouraging the Heart
Benefits of Frameworks

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  • Provides leaders a clear, simple, conceptual understanding for three key skill areas in leadership:
    • Planning
    • Aligning
    • Diagnosing
  • Creates a common language among members of the school community.
  • Builds capacity and creates internal advocacy for desired change.
Use of Frameworks
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It's helpful to use frameworks in your work as a leader. For example, throughout this website you will see the Desired State/Current Reality framework

Benefits of this framework:
  • It's simple to understand.
  • Can be used for a variety of contexts.
  • Creates common language among a variety of stakeholders.
Desired State/Current Reality Chart

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