Leadership and school effectiveness

Leadership and School Effectiveness by: Gema Gutiérrez, Gonzalo Gallego and Adalisa Licu.

Leadership is the responsability of school administrators and principals who want to create positive changes in educational policy and process. As we can see in the conceptual map, e can find the school leader as a businessman, as an organizer and as an institutional expert. This means:

- As businessman: the leader has to take care that the environmnt don't affect to the pupils and teachers and also he has to take care about the develop of the children and the school as an institution.

- As an organizer: has to bring qualify teachers, creative concepts and institutional methods that will define the quality of the education following a reform plan. They also motivate children, teachers, parents and the hole community to participate in the school and in education.

- As an institutional expert: they have to stablish information based on expert communities that make all peolple responsable of pupil learning and school develop.

Then we have the concept of effectiveness. A school is effective if the leader gets a higher comprehensive development of all the students  tan would be expected of them giving their previos performance and taking in account social, economic and cultural situations.

                                                                                                           

Here we leave our conceptual map with all the ideas that this topic includes:

Those are the videos that we shown at class about leadership and school effectiveness:

As a conclusión we would say that there are too many factors tat influence school effectiveness but the principal one is the leadership. The AIM is that everybody cooperates to get a development and a qualify education.

Bibliography and references:

- Generative Leadership: Shaping New Futures for Today's Schools.  Corwin Press           

- Crowther, F. (2008). Developing Teacher Leaders: How Teacher Leadership Enhances School Success.  Corwin Press; Second Edition

- Wagner, T. (2005). Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools.  Jossey-Bass