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Visionary Leader

A visionary leader develops a personal leadership vision by considering their core values and beliefs about leadership, students, staff, community building, curriculum, and more. This inner compass guides their problem solving, decision making, and daily actions. To develop a shared vision, the leader drafts a statement of an envisioned future state for the school. It is then important to engage staff in building the vision to generate ownership, commitment, and energy to achieve the vision. An effective vision takes into account qualities like teaching and learning, the student population, data, past change efforts, and high expectations.

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Visionary Leader

A visionary leader develops a personal leadership vision by considering their core values and beliefs about leadership, students, staff, community building, curriculum, and more. This inner compass guides their problem solving, decision making, and daily actions. To develop a shared vision, the leader drafts a statement of an envisioned future state for the school. It is then important to engage staff in building the vision to generate ownership, commitment, and energy to achieve the vision. An effective vision takes into account qualities like teaching and learning, the student population, data, past change efforts, and high expectations.

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The Visionary Leader

Visionary leadership involves making happen what you believe in.


(Barth, R. 2001, p. 46)

A visionary leader possesses a personal leadership vision that guides him or her in problem solving, decision making, priority setting and daily actions. To develop a personal leadership vision, one must first consider: 1) 2) What do I value deeply? What are my beliefs? o About leadership? o About students? o About staff members? o About community building? o About curriculum, instruction and assessment? o About learning? o About professional development? o About supervision? o About communication? o About change?

Getting clear about the answers to these questions will be reflected in how one interacts with others in the school and community, priority setting and decision making. To develop a vision, consistent with ones values and beliefs a statement of an envisioned future state is the drafted: 3) My visiona desired future statewould entail:

Going through this process develops within the school leader an inner compass that will point the way on the leadership path. Leaders who have done this, who have communicated this vision to other, and who act consistently with this vision, are perceived with respect and integrity, two vital ingredients for trust. While a personal leadership vision is essential for the leader, staff have not been involved in its development. Hence, a process is needed so that the staff can articulate a shared, core ideology and an envisioned future for the school. While it would take less time to copy or borrow a vision from another organization, great benefits are derived by engaging with staff in a vision building process. It generates ownership, commitment and energy towards making the vision become reality. 4) A vision should take into consideration: o o o o o o o o o o quality teaching and learning who a school serves characteristics of the students and their families a board array of schoolwide data (not just test scores) current and past change efforts desired cognitive, affective, psychological, social and physical goals special programs and services hopes and aspirations dreams for students futures high expectations

Source: Robbins, P. and Alvy, H., Helping New and Aspiring Principals Succeed: A Newcomers st Fieldbook for the 21 Century, ASCD (in press).

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