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"he old-fashioned view of leadership is that leaders are marked out for leadership from early on in their lives, and that if you're not a born leader, there's little that you can do to become one. That's not the way we see it now. The modern view is that through patience, persistence and hard work, you can be a truly effective leader, just as long as you make the effort needed. The articles in this section (which are drawn from our How to Lead: Discover the Leader Within You course) help you develop your leadership skills so that you, too, can become an exceptional leader."

"Through this document, I am trying to accomplish two things. First, I am attempting to weave together two sets of standards for school leaders, the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards for School Leaders (2008) and the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A) (2009). Second, I am trying to map technology tools/applications onto those standards. My hope is that this will become a guidance document for anyone who works with sitting and aspiring school leaders and who wants to better bring together the fields of educational leadership and educational technology."

Ten characteristics of a servant-leader.

"Great leaders keep the focus on student learning"

"7 Essential Attributes for Picking Good Leaders We complain about our leaders. So we eventually get rid of them and we move on to the next one with the hope that it will be different this time. But it's not. And we're back where we started. "

Maryland's Teacher Professional Development Standards are intended to guide efforts to improve professional development for all teachers. These standards call on teachers, principals and other school leaders, district leaders and staff, the Maryland State Department of Education, institutions of higher education, and cultural institutions and organizations1 across the state to work together to ensure that professional development is of the highest quality and readily accessible to all teachers.

The core of transactional leadership lies in the notion that the leader, who holds power and control over his or her employees or followers, provides incentives for followers to do what the leader wants.

The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first.

Standards for School Leaders

James Kouzes and Barry Posner developed a survey (The Leadership Practices Inventory) that asked people which, of a list of common characteristics of leaders, were, in their experiences of being led by others, the seven top things they look for, admire and would willingly follow. And over twenty years, they managed ask this of seventy five thousand people.

In order to be able to properly understand the six leadership styles Goleman introduces in his book Primal Leadership (2002, with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee), it is useful you first understand his human communication / interaction concept of resonance. In the view of Goleman, good leaders are effective because they create resonance.

In the view of Goleman, good leaders are effective because they create resonance.

"Inspiration is in short supply in America today. Gallup reports that only 28 percent of US employees are "engaged" at work. The majority are either disengaged or "actively disengaged." A global recession, lay-offs and scandals have left many employees discouraged, disillusioned and demoralized. It doesn't have to be that way. As a leader, you have the ability to inspire, energize and to positively influence your team if you learn the language of motivation."

SLS - School Leadership Series The School Leadership Series consists of two assessments: The School Superintendent Assessment and the School Leaders Licensure Assessment.

"50 Affirmations for Being an Effective School Leader"

"...If the focus of an educational system is student learning, as most mission statements claim, then leaders must compare the reality of their employment of technology with their stated intention."

Michelle, Thanks for posting this! Honestly, one of the best, most "focused" articles I have read in a long time. It really nails the issue of having little or no focus or direction when we're swamped by layers upon layers of standards, initiatives, and skills. Makes me wonder if it might not be a good idea to choose one or two of the NETS-S as a starting point, rather than be daunted by trying to integrate ALL of them.

"This web site provides information about Adaptive Schools: what they are, why they affect student learning, and how they develop essential capacities for sustained growth in achievement. Our Mission The mission of the Center for Adaptive Schools is to help schools develop the technical and social resources to realize continuing student improvement. Steady improvement in student learning is happening in a new kind of professional culture within schools. Sustaining these collaborative, results-focused working relationships requires leaders at all levels of the organization to develop new ways of seeing their work and new templates and tools for engaging collective energies toward common goals."

"Listening to Student Voices is a toolkit for K - 12 educational leaders and school-based teams interested in including students in continuous school improvement."

This questionnaire predicts which candidates will succeed as school principals serving diverse children and youth in urban poverty in major urban school districts.