Dimensions within Quality Reflective Leadership
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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On a daily basis, we think about our leadership and the impact on the ongoing operations of our schools.
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We are firm believers in the art of reflective practice. Reflective practice provides an informal evaluation and assessment toward improvement of our educational functions. Reflective practice frames the process of continuous improvement.
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Quality reflective practice addresses questions about leadership, authority, and one’s own upbringing and how we tackle hard problems. Reflective practice helps us to adjust, fine-tune, and change the way we do business through daily experiences and real-life situations. Reflective practices have a direct impact on our leadership style.
It helps us to recognize conflicts over values and establish purpose. Reflective leaders in high-performing schools “recognize and utilize the cultural, ethnic, racial, and economic diversity of the school community to meet the needs of all learners and to maximize the performance of students
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Leadership requires various learning strategies and relies on complex, organic, interpersonal relationships between leaders and followers. With this in mind, we have developed some practical ideas, reflections, and thoughts about the practice of reflective leadership.
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Attributes of Reflective Practice
• Reflective leadership takes place every day.
• Reflective leadership helps us develop conceptual frameworks for practice.
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Thinking in Time
• This means being able to hold past, present and future in mind at the same time to create better decision making and speed implementation.
"Strategy is not driven by future intent alone. It is the gap between today’s reality and intent for the future that is critical."
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Questions and Answers?
Take some time to reflect on this idea?
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• Reflective leadership provides the ability to effect change even through adversity.
• Reflection helps us develop our values, which play a key role in the development of authority and leadership styles.
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• Reflective leadership conjures up images of social contract—the ability to mobilize and develop our own focus.
• Reflective leadership helps in the contingency theory where a leader earns influence by adapting to various situations.
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• Leaders, through reflective practice, develop values systems. People with competing values engage one another as they confront a shared situation from their own point of view.
• Reflective leadership is setting the frame, establishing the bottom line, making unpopular decisions.
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-- Hypothesis driven, ensuring that both creative and critical thinking are incorporated into strategy making. This competency explicitly incorporates the scientific method into strategic thinking.
--Intelligent opportunism, which means being responsive to good opportunities. "The dilemma involved in using a well-articulated strategy to channel organisational efforts effectively and efficiently must always be balanced against the risks of losing sight of alternative strategies better suited to a changing environment.
Questions and answers?
Take some time to reflect.
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• Leadership through reflection provides the ability to adapt by using restraint.
• Reflection helps leaders in dealing with tough realities.
• Leadership through reflection means having a clear vision and the capacity to persuade people to move in a positive and forward direction.
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• The anguish of leadership is derived through reflection by what we learn through experiences.
• Leadership oftentimes is a passionate and consuming activity; the practice of leadership requires reflection for a sense of purpose.
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--Systems perspective, refers to being able to understand implications of strategic actions. "A strategic thinker has a mental model of the complete end-to-end system of value creation, his or her role within it, and an understanding of the competencies it contains."
--Intent focused which means more determined and less distractible than rivals in the marketplace. Crediting Hamel and Prahalad with popularising the concept, Liedtka describes strategic intent as "the focus that allows individuals within an organization to marshal and leverage their energy, to focus attention, to resist distraction, and to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal."
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Thus, reflective practice cannot be used to maintain the status quo. Leadership, as it relates to reflective practice, helps us to learn that only by changing ourselves do we have the ability to change and lead others or the course of direction.
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Leadership is about getting more out of life by putting more into it and putting yourself and your ideas on the line, responding effectively to risks, and living to celebrate the meaning of you efforts.
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These days doing nothing as a leader is a great risk, so you might as well take risks worth taking.
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The Common Core State Standards:
Are for all students, not just students seeking accelerated learning. Will impact all teachers, not just ELA and math teachers. Is happening now.
School level leaders will need to play a Central Role in implementing the New Standards and in cultivating this mindset shift.
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Framework for 21st Century Learning
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has developed a vision for student success in the new global economy.
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This Framework describes the skills, knowledge and expertise students must master to succeed in work and life; it is a blend of content knowledge, specific skills, expertise and literacies.
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Effective citizens and workers must be able to exhibit a range of functional and critical thinking skills, such as:
•Information Literacy
•Media Literacy
•ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) Literacy
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Life and Career SkillsToday’s life and work environments require far more than thinking skills and content knowledge
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•Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
•Productivity and Accountability
•Leadership and Responsibility
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21ST CENTURY SUPPORT SYSTEMS Developing a comprehensive framework for 21st century learning requires more than identifying specific skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies.
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The Partnership has identified five critical support systems to ensure student mastery of 21st century skills:
•21st Century Standards
•Assessments of 21st Century Skills
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•21st Century Curriculum and Instruction
•21st Century Professional Development
•21st Century Learning Environments.
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Contact:
Dr. Paul A. Rodriguez
909.519.2777
par913@me.com
www.par913edu.com
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