Collaborative Settings: The Roles Of An Educational Leader

Every educational leader has his or her own personal philosophy - a focus or set of guidelines to which he or she subscribes as the basis or foundation in operating an educational system. Conti (2007) confirms that, in fact, educational philosophies exist for the sole purpose of empowering educators to encapsulate where education fits into the larger context of individual and social progress. An educational leader must possess and demonstrate various skill sets to positively impact his or her community. These include knowledge and ability to lead, a positive disposition, and the opportunity to demonstrate aforementioned skill sets in various collaborative settings as a mode of building capacity. First and foremost, an educational leader needs to be equipped with leadership knowledge. This includes the ability to communicate and collaborate within a school community of adult learners. The necessity of such knowledge and skill-set has thus emerged as a set of standard for school leaders - a fundamental infrastructure of excellence per say (Green, 2009). Communication is key when effectively …show more content…
Leaders are often the risk takers of the team and the safe environment he or she has created allows other team members to trust those risks in an effort to affect change. A leader searches for a balance of like-minded individuals and those with original, even possibly contrary, thoughts to move the campus in a forward direction. An educational leader must also be open to intently listening to all elements of the teaching and or school experience, positive and negative, expected and unexpected. . This could include teacher or campus experience within the classroom. It could also include the voice of the community - parents and surrounding businesses. The leader then uses the safe environment created to impart his or her own experience and