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- Common set of leadership traits. There is the idea that effective leaders possess a common set of traits. They don't, there is no 'one-size-fits-all'.
- You either have it or you don't. Leaders aren't 'born' with natural raw talent. Leadership is not innate but a learned set of capacities, competencies, skills and abilities that comes about through practice.
- You don't have enough time. Time-management and prioritising is a skill and the way you use your time is a choice. Your workload is likely to be heavy but not everything needs doing now.
- You can't show vulnerability. Yes, you can. This is one of the most prevalent myths about leaders and the most damaging. Strong leaders are fallible and show transparency.
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- Leaders Have All the Answers. One of the most prevalent myths is the notion that leaders must have all the answers. In the dynamic and complex world of education, it's impossible and impractical for a leader to know everything.
- Leadership is Synonymous with Authority. Often, there's a mistaken belief that leadership is all about wielding authority and enforcing rules.
- Leaders Should Maintain a Distance from their Team. The idea that leaders should maintain a professional distance from their team is outdated.
- Decision-Making is a Solo Activity. Many outside of education assume that leaders make decisions in isolation. However, collaborative decision-making is often more effective, especially in educational settings.
Aug 4, 2021 · It is the second most significant school-based variable influencing student outcomes, after classroom teaching. There is also increasing evidence about how leadership impacts on such outcomes (Leithwood et al., 2006, 2020). More challenging, conceptually, and empirically, is how effective or successful school leadership may be assessed.
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- 2021
Nov 21, 2023 · Publication England Leadership. The NEU commissioned research into Leadership issues in current times, by Professor Ruth Lupton. School leaders get a lot of job satisfaction from working with pupils and families, but other pressures overshadow this. The biggest issues that are taking up more time since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020 ...
Dec 19, 2023 · Leithwood, Harris, and Hopkins (2020, 12) note that ‘School leadership improves teaching and learning, indirectly and most powerfully, by improving the status of significant key classroom and school conditions that further enhance student success at school’. In improving organisational outcomes, therefore, the main role of the school leader ...
Sep 9, 2024 · School leadership and student outcomes: What do we know? The widely cited research by Leithwood et al. (2006), reinforced by Leithwood et al. (2020), shows that leadership is second only to classroom teaching in its influence on student outcomes. They show that total leadership, not just that of the principal, accounts for 27% of the variation ...
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Jul 2, 2020 · Introduction. School leaders need to set the right conditions for teachers to develop themselves (Bredeson Citation 2000).More recently, ‘Leadership for Learning’ (LfL) scholars have focused on the question how leadership could be more strongly connected to teacher professional learning to benefit student learning (Hallinger Citation 2011, Lovett and Andrews Citation 2011, Daniëls et al.
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