scholarly journals Developing the Leadership Capacity of Teachers: Theory to Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
M. Adam Carswell
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Teacher Leadership ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Leadership Capacity ◽  
School Administrator ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Leadership Potential ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Formal Leadership

Today’s school leaders need to prioritize the development of leadership capacity in classroom teachers. Leadership development commonly involves either teachers expressing an interest in leadership or school leaders finding talent in those teachers whom they believe have the capacity to grow into formal leadership roles. School leaders must be able to recognize teachers who overflow with terrific ideas and leadership potential and those who are less likely to self-identify as leadership candidates. However, as a school administrator desires to cultivate leadership capacity in teachers, he or she must devise a plan. To accomplish this task effectively, best practices and theory must be utilized. Therefore, this essay addresses the use of best practices as identified in the literature to promote a positive school climate, collaboration, motivation, reflective practice, and teacher leadership development.

scholarly journals Book Review: Choosing to Lead: The Motivational Factors of Underrepresented Minority Librarians in Higher Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Africa Hands
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Underrepresented Minority ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Diversity In The Workplace

Leadership is a topic regularly discussed in library circles. Day-long preconference sessions are dedicated to the subject. Library associations offer webinars and host institutes on leadership development and best practices. Also of continued interest is diversity in the workplace, particularly with regard to recruitment, retention, and promotion of libraries from underrepresented groups, as evidenced by the burgeoning number of residency programs at academic libraries. Yet despite all the institutes and initiatives, minority librarians express frustration in securing leadership roles. Choosing to Lead addresses the intersection of diversity and leadership through essays by minority librarians who actively sought leadership opportunities within and outside their libraries.

scholarly journals Utilizing Teacher Leadership as a Catalyst for Change in Schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Raymond J. Ankrum
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Leadership ◽  
Shared Leadership ◽  
Teacher Leaders ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
School Community ◽  
School Staff ◽  
Maximum Output ◽  
School Building ◽  
Leadership Potential ◽  
Community Responsibility

<p>School leaders are constantly trying to find alternative ways to leverage and explore teacher leadership potential in their school building(s). Teachers leaders that are willing to go above and beyond their general duties. Teacher leaders are the type of educators that fall under the motif of potentially taking on additive responsibilities that will help to improve the school community. This paper looks at ways to leverage relationships between teacher leaders and school leaders in order to get maximum output from school staff. By infusing shared leadership in the school community, responsibility and accountability becomes a shared belief, that can be utilized as a catalyst for change in the school community.</p>

scholarly journals The Chief Registrar role in the UK: leadership capacity and development of hybrid leaders

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Snelling ◽  
Mark Exworthy ◽  
Shahin Ghezelayagh
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Leadership Capacity ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Hybrid Leadership ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level ◽  
Medical Leadership

PurposeThe purpose of the study is to evaluate the first cohort of the Royal College of Physicians' (RCP) Chief Registrar programme in 2016/7. Chief Registrars provide medical leadership capacity through leadership development posts.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted a mixed methods design, comprising a monthly survey of the 21 Chief Registrars in the first cohort, interviews with Chief Registrars, and six cases studies where Chief Registrars and colleagues were interviewed.FindingsChief Registrars enjoyed high levels of practical, professional, and leadership support from their employing organisations, the RCP, and the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. They had high degrees of autonomy in their roles. As a result, roles were enacted in different ways, making direct comparative evaluation problematic. In particular, we identified variation on two dimensions: first, the focus on medical leadership generally, or quality improvement more specifically, and second, the focus on personal development or organisational leadership capacity.Research limitations/implicationsThe data are limited and drawn from the first cohort's experience. The Chief Registrar scheme, unlike many other leadership fellowships, maintains a high level of clinical practice (with a minimum 40 per cent leadership work). This suggests a clearer preparation for future hybrid leadership roles.Practical implicationsThis paper may offer some support and guidance for Chief Registrars and those who work with and support them.Originality/valueThis study adds to the literature on leadership development for doctors in hybrid roles, and highlights the distinctiveness of the scheme compared with other schemes.

Leadership Development: Leadership Emergence to Leadership Effectiveness

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 571-592
Author(s):  
Gil Luria ◽  
Allon Kahana ◽  
Judith Goldenberg ◽  
Yair Noam
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Leadership Effectiveness ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Informal Leadership ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Basic Training ◽  
Emerging Leaders ◽  
Leadership Emergence ◽  
Formal Leadership ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed to understand how leadership effectiveness of the trainer in a leadership development program can influence emerging leaders’ development and effectiveness. We hypothesized that the trainer’s leadership effectiveness would be a boundary condition. In this two year longitudinal field study, military cadets’ leadership effectiveness from their emergence as informal peer leaders during basic training through the officer training course (OTC) to their formal leadership roles as active duty officers was followed. The sample included 854 cadets and their 72 trainers. We found that cadets’ effectiveness during OTC mediated the relationship between informal leadership emergence during basic training and their subsequent effectiveness as formal leaders. Furthermore, trainers’ effectiveness moderated the relationship between cadets’ informal leadership emergence and effectiveness in OTC. Results indicate that informal emerging leaders are more likely to develop into highly effective formal leaders when supervised by effective trainers. Theoretical and applied implications are discussed.

Not Too Young to Lead

2016 ◽  
pp. 202-228
Author(s):  
Tanya Judd Pucella
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Teacher Leadership ◽  
Prospective Teacher ◽  
Teacher Preparation Program ◽  
Effective Teacher ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

This chapter reviews the case for leadership development opportunities for pre-service educators so that prospective teacher leaders are willing and able to take on leadership roles once in the classroom. The chapter discusses the various curricular approaches to developing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed for effective teacher leadership. This chapter provides a comprehensive review of the various knowledge, skills, and dispositions that can begin to be developed during an undergraduate teacher preparation program. In addition, the chapter will examine focus areas for leadership development for teachers that may not be part of the traditional pre-service teacher preparation curriculum, including the concepts of followership, power, and influence techniques.

Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: A Conceptual Model of the Antecedents and Consequences of Leader Impostorism

2021 ◽  
pp. 014920632110203
Author(s):  
Ronit Kark ◽  
Alyson Meister ◽  
Kim Peters
Keyword(s):  
Popular Media ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Motivation To Lead ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Contextual Characteristics ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Formal Leadership ◽  
Leader Role

Impostorism, a phenomenon whereby a person perceives that the role they occupy is beyond their capabilities and puts them at risk of exposure as a “fake,” has attracted plentiful attention in the empirical literature and popular media. However, despite evidence that impostorism is frequently experienced by people in leadership positions, there has been little consideration of why this happens. In this theoretical article, we explain why formal leadership roles—roles that are characterized by elevated expectations, high visibility, and high levels of responsibility—are fertile ground for impostorism experiences. We also discuss how the associated self-conscious emotions of shame and fear, can increase leaders’ risk-aversion and enhance leader role performance, yet at the same time drive emotional exhaustion, and reduce their motivation to lead. This can ultimately inhibit leaders from seeking, claiming, and thriving in leadership roles. We offer individual-, dyadic-, and organization-level contextual characteristics that can either enhance or reduce this phenomenon. We also discuss how supportive organizations can mitigate leadership impostorism. Furthermore, we highlight how women and minority-status leaders may be more vulnerable to this experience and conclude by suggesting the practical implications of the leader impostorism phenomenon for individuals and organizations.

Building Academic Leadership Capacity: A Guide to Best Practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-29
Author(s):  
Alfred G. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Leadership Capacity ◽  
Academic Leadership

Assistant principal leadership development: a narrative capture study

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Petrides ◽  
Cynthia Jimes ◽  
Anastasia Karaglani
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Principal Leadership ◽  
Assistant Principals ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Assistant Principal ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
Teacher Professional

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the knowledge base on the ways in which assistant principals view their roles, and on the potential challenges involved in a distributed leadership model. Design/methodology/approach – The study employed a narrative capture method, in which assistant principals from two large urban school districts were asked to relate and self-interpret two leadership stories through a web-based narrative capture form. A total of 90 stories were collected from 45 assistant principals. Participants rated their stories based on a set of leadership indicators (including method of decision making and type of teacher interaction present in the story, among others); the results were analyzed statistically. Findings – Overall, participants tended to view their roles in terms of instructionally focussed leadership. However, leadership challenges emerged in several areas of leadership practice, including operational management and teacher professional development (PD). Demographic factors were found to influence leadership perceptions and practices. Research limitations/implications – This study begins to fill the empirical gap on assistant principal leadership roles, practices, and perceptions. Further research, using other methods (e.g. observation), is needed to collect evidence of in situ leadership practices of assistant principals, and how those practices impact and relate to school objectives for teaching and learning. Practical implications – The study sheds light on the leadership development needs of assistant principals and on the importance of ongoing, tailored PD, based on factors including where leaders are in their careers and how they envision their roles. Originality/value – This paper contributes to nascent scholarship regarding assistant principal school leadership.

Holistic Leader(ship) Development: An Integrative Process Model of Leader and Leadership Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Michael Schwartz ◽  
Pooja Khatija ◽  
Diana Bilimoria
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Leader Development ◽  
Leadership Capacity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Leader Identity ◽  
Capital Development

The question of how to efficiently, holistically, and successfully develop leaders has been the focus of scholars and practitioners for several decades. Embedding the process of leader development in organizational contexts allows participants to develop and apply leadership knowledge, skills, and identity awareness. Embeddedness facilitates the holistic integration of the interactive processes of leader development (which focuses on increasing the leadership capacity of an individual) and leadership development (which focuses on increasing the leadership capacity of an organization), which is referred to in this article as leader(ship) development (LD). Two sub-processes involved in LD (i.e., general and situational identity development and knowledge/skill/social capital development) and four mechanisms of embeddedness that facilitate holistic LD (i.e., leader identity integration, opportunities to learn and develop in the organization, organizational support and feedback, and helping relationships) will be described. A discussion on the ways by which management education pedagogy can integrate and facilitate embeddedness and provide guidance for future research will follow.

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