Full Description
The role of a school principal is an extremely challenging one. Principals are required to be educators, business managers, strategic planners, counsellors and most importantly, leaders. While there are professional development opportunities and short courses available for aspiring principals, many principals work their way up to the role without receiving any formal training in the specific skills required to successfully lead a school and its community.
Neil Barker argues in Ecosystem Leadership: An Approach for Schools that in order to improve school leadership and subsequent student outcomes, principals and leadership teams need to better understand how to lead together; to be intentional about the school's leadership and to methodically and deliberately develop a collective leadership approach.
Based on the organic and interconnected ecosystems found throughout the natural world, Ecosystem leadership provides practical, hands-on activities and templates to assist school leaders in developing collective leadership skills and practices. The book sets out 5 key leadership elements for school leaders to address: context, vision, processes, focuses and impact.
Ecosystem leadership provides a collaborative, self-improving approach to leadership that is systematic, integrated and comprehensive. It describes a system of leadership that is fit for purpose, based on a school's unique context, and always with improving student outcomes at the forefront.
Contents
CONTENTS
About the author
Acknowledgements
Foreword
SECTION 1
INTRODUCTION Leadership, leadership and leadership
CHAPTER 1 Ecosystem leadership
CHAPTER 2 An ecosystem approach to school leadership
CHAPTER 3 Building an ecosystem leadership approach
SECTION 2
CHAPTER 4 Leadership context
CHAPTER 5 Leadership vision
CHAPTER 6 Leadership processes
CHAPTER 7 Leadership focuses
CHAPTER 8 Leadership impact
CHAPTER 9 An integrated leadership ecosystem
An endnote
References
