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An Explanation for the Descriptor "Leader"
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| Educators should be able to demonstrate effective leadership skills to initiate and facilitate transformational systemic change. A prerequisite to lasting change is effective leadership (Fullan, 1998). As researchers increasingly focus on the need for all educators to assume a degree of leadership within their schools in order to promote a higher level of learning, it becomes essential for all educators to demonstrate effective leadership skills (Kaplan & Evans, 1997). Over the last 15 years, we have seen a shift from the expectations of educator competence in the individual setting toward "professional community" expertise -- educators jointly defining goals and taking responsibility for all students' progress, engaging in on-going inquiry and experimentation, and assuming leadership in school development (Anderson, Rolheiser, & Gordon, 1998). In order to ensure that educators engage in transformational systemic change, they must have the capacity to lead. |
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Presentation of Evidence That Portrays My Role As A Leader
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