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The Art of Educational LeadershipBalancing Performance and Accountability

by Fenwick W. English

William Allan Kritsonis, PhD

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Chapter 7Balancing Performance and

AccountabilityWilliam Allan Kritsonis, PhD



How can we fully comprehend what

artful performers do?If we cannot permit ourselves to fully

comprehend the nature of leadership because

of how we have chosen to define or view it,

we should stop using methods and models

that leave us perpetually ignorant and unable

to adequately grasp what expert practitioners

who are supremely artful performer really do

(English 2008).



Traditional Notions of Leadership

Social Sciences

Scientific Method

Total Quality ManagementManagement Theory

Business Management



Business Management Literature

Wiens (2006)

Emphasis

Excellence

Effective

Effective habits

Total quality

Counterintuitive

Too prescriptive

Too presumptive

Too generalizing



Performance

Performance is anchored in theessential core of every leaders deeply

held beliefs that not only guide him or

her in a role of leadership, but actively shape the world and define the issues

in it ( English, 2008).



Accountability

Educational leaders are accountable f or everything in the educational system f rom:

policy to practice

Teaching

Defining goals to strategic planning

Measuring progress to improving performance

School finances & budgets to transportation

School safety to teacher retention



Deweys Distinction

Leadership

John Deweys

Distinction

Science

Limitations

on

Empiricism

Art

Values of

Moral

Discourse

Problem of

Definition

Applied

Practice

Performance



To advance educational leadership as a field of

professional studies intellectually and

practically in the 21 st century a better balance

between science and art of leading must emerge

(English, 2008).



Humanities disciplines study

Human Condition

Literature

History

Philosophy

Drama

Theology

Sociology

Anthropology

Cultural Studies



The case for the study of educational

leadership through humanities

Michael Mann(2003)

T ime to reinsert life into school administration

by expanding the context of what constitutesappropriate text for educational leadership

preparation. Examination of life writings

contains a full range of human actions.



Winston

Churchill

Voted Greatest

ever Britton

Great Leader

Great Character

Great Vision

Great Ability to

detect weaknesses

1940 PM/ UK

Paradoxical



Strength of Humanities over

Social Science

Samier ( 2005)- Positivistic and instructional approaches are not equipped to deal withhumanities questions such as:

F reedom Authenticity

Responsibility

Individual actionT hese approaches are obscured in current fad of leadership training (174).



Psychobiography



The Argument for Life Writings to

Study Educational Leadership

Allows leadership researcher to look at a greater

number of variables

Promotes richness of context to differentiate

forms of leadership

Promotes the study of the context of various

arrays of decisions and subsequent actions and

outcomes that followEvokes conclusions that arise from ground truth-

to analyze how leaders get from here to there



Robert Greenleaf- AT&T CEO

What leaders are not

Ordinary

Products of

position

education

income

religion

ethnicity

Approach to Leadership

Noncoersive

Nonmanipulative

Quaker beliefs

Management ability tostate a goal & reach it throughothers

Personal growth

Servant Leadership

Empowerment

Listening

Introspection



Learning Extension

Elizabeth -1998

Staring Cate Blanchett

Daughter of Henry VII

becomes queen of England and shrewdlyleads the country. Thequeen negotiates her

way to consolidate herauthority in a dividedland between Catholicsand Protestants.



Learning Extension

Documentary of

LNelson Mandela s life.

Contains footage of

Mandelas sojourn back toRobben Island where

spent two decades in

prison. Portrays Mandels

leadership style and workethics as president of South

Africa.



Concluding Reflection Questions

What do you actually know about the leader

(s) you most admire?

What are the characteristics that stand out inyou mind about them?

What did the leaders actually do to merit

being a leader?

What types of contexts did your leaders

encounter?



Leadership

T he day soldiers stopbringing you their

problems is the day youhave stopped leadingthem. T hey have either

lost confidence that youcan help them or

concluded that you do not care.

Either case is a failure of leadership

Colin Powell



Life isdrawing

without an eraser



yyIn lif e, you either f ollow paths or make In lif e, you either f ollow paths or make

trails.trails.



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The Art of Educational Leadership

Balancing Performance and

Accountability

by Fenwick W. English

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