Inquiry-Centered Leadership

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They mention that school leaders are facing three cultural shifts in education. 1. From command-and-control decisionmaking in a bureaucratic organization to the sharing of leadership across the learning community 2. From a right-answer orientation to a culture of inquiry 3. From individual autonomy to collective responsibility for the learning of all. This shift is why it is important for quality questioning to be an important practice for leaders . The inquiry-centered leader encourages questions, facilitates conversations, initiates investigations, and welcomes multiple viewpoints. I loved this statement...Inquiry-centered leaders let others do a lot of the thinking and let them take credit for it.

The book points out that most effective

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