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What are the leadership styles that are most effective in leading change and especially in the current environment?

"Over the past two years, more than half of the 23 campuses in the California State University system have migrated their students to Google Apps for Education. And in the coming months, other campuses will join them."

Standards for Advanced Programs in Educational Leadership

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.\n\n \n\nIn the view of Goleman, good leaders are effective because they create resonance.

"The Framework for Teaching is a research-based set of components of instruction, aligned to the INTASC standards, and grounded in a constructivist view of learning and teaching. In this framework, the complex activity of teaching is divided into 22 components (and 76 smaller elements) clustered into four domains of teaching responsibility"

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

"# S (Substitute): "What can I substitute in my selling process?" # C (Combine): "How can I combine selling with other activities?" # A (Adapt): "What can I adapt or copy from someone else's selling process?" # M (Magnify): "What can I magnify or put more emphasis on when selling?" # P (Put to Other Uses): "How can I put my selling to other uses?" # E (Eliminate): "What can I eliminate or simplify in my selling process?" # R (Rearrange): "How can I change, reorder or reverse the way I sell?""

Slides ~ Web 2.0 in Schools: Leadership & Policy Initiative

"The golden rule is correct: moderation in everything," Horn said. "And that applies to parents as well. If you're always on the phone when you're with your child, that's not good parenting, either."

"To clear up some of the confusion around these comments and assertions, I went straight to the top: the Department of Education's Director of Education Technology, Karen Cator. Cator parsed the rules of the Childrens Internet Protection Act, and provided guidance for teachers on how to proceed when it comes to interpreting the rules. To that end, here are six surprising rules that educators, administrators, parents and students might not know about website filtering in schools."

Great resource for assessment practices in action!

"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."

Coaches' leadership skills that communicate trust building will increase teacher vulnerability and therefore teacher growth.

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.

A critical difference here is that serving people, for a servant, is an end in itself, not a way to achieve other goals. It should be noted that this critique of servant leadership is based on a total separation of leadership and management