ENGD30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Educational Leadership, Resource Allocation, Research Question
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Synthesize and deepen the learning about contemporary conceptions of leadership. Make connections between leadership and school improvement literature. Critically analyze, deconstruct, and examine related policy and practice. Develop communication skills for academic discussion and writing. Three readings that provide a background and framework for the focus of the course: Educational leadership seven strong claims about successful school leadership revisited (leithwood, harris & hopkins, 2020) School improvement small steps, big changes: the most powerful forms of school improvement aren"t necessarily the most glamourous (starr, 2018) An empirical example school leadership and school improvement: an examination of school readiness factors (yeigh et. al. , 2019) Acknowledge more outside of school factors can have a positive impact on student learning. Review the four domains of practice (p. 7) Review chart with 22 effective leadership practices (p. 8) Leaders need to be responsive to context and phase of development (p. Section on distributed leadership will be the topic for week 5.
