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   The Art of Educational Leadership
   Balancing Performance and Accountabilityby Fenwick W. English
   William Allan Kritsonis, PhD
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   Chapter 7
   Balancing Performance and Accountability
   William Allan Kritsonis, PhD
   
3. 3. 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).
   
4. 4. Traditional Notions of Leadership
   
   • Social Sciences
   • 5. Scientific Method
   • 6. Total Quality Management
   • 7. Management Theory
   • 8. Business Management
5. Business Management LiteratureWiens (2006)
   Emphasis
   
   • Excellence
   • 9. Effective
   • 10. Effective habits
   • 11. Total quality
   Counterintuitive
   
   • Too prescriptive
   • 12. Too presumptive
   • 13. Too generalizing
6. PerformancePerformance is anchored in the essential 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).
   
7. 14. Accountability
   Educational leaders are accountable for everything in the educational system from:
   
   • policy to practice
   • 15. Teaching
   • 16. Defining goals to strategic planning
   • 17. Measuring progress to improving performance
   • 18. School finances & budgets to transportation
   • 19. School safety to teacher retention
8. Deweys Distinction
   Leadership
   John Deweys Distinction
   Art
   Values of Moral Discourse
   ScienceLimitations on Empiricism
   Applied Practice
   Problem of Definition
   Performance
   
9. 20. To advance educational leadership as a field of professional studies intellectually and practically in the 21st century a better balance between science and art of leading must emerge (English, 2008).
   
10. 21. Humanities disciplines studyHuman Condition
    
    • Literature
    • 22. History
    • 23. Philosophy
    • 24. Drama
    • 25. Theology
    • 26. Sociology
    • 27. Anthropology
    • 28. Cultural Studies
11. The case for the study of educational leadership through humanities
    Michael Mann(2003)
    Time to reinsert life into school administration
    by expanding the context of what constitutes
    appropriate text for educational leadership
    preparation. Examination of life writings
    contains a full range of human actions.
    
12. 29. Winston Churchill
    Voted Greatest ever Britton
    Great Leader
    Great Character
    Great Vision
    Great Ability to detect weaknesses
    1940PM/ UK
    Paradoxical
    
13. 30. Strength of Humanities over Social Science
    Samier ( 2005)- Positivistic and instructional approaches are not equipped to deal with humanities questions such as:
    
    • Freedom
    • 31. Authenticity
    • 32. Responsibility
    • 33. Individual action
    These approaches are obscured in current fad of leadership training(174).
    
14. 34. Biography
    Prosopo-graphy
    Psychobio-graphy
    Portrayals
    Portraits
    Profiles
    Letters and Journals
    Memoirs
    Life stories
    Auto- biography
    Auto-biographical extensions
    Obituaries
    First Person Writing
    Third Person Writing
    
15. 35. Psychobiography
    
16. 36. The Argument for Life Writings to Study Educational Leadership
    
    • Allows leadership researcher to look at a greaternumber of variables
    • 37. Promotes richness of context to differentiate forms of leadership
    • 38. Promotes the study of the context of various arrays of decisions and subsequent actions and outcomes that follow
    • 39. Evokes conclusions that arise from ground truth-to analyze how leaders get from here to there
17. Robert Greenleaf- AT&T CEO
    What leaders are not
    
    • Ordinary
    • 40. Products of
    position
    education
    income
    religion
    ethnicity
    Approach to Leadership
    
    • Noncoersive
    • 41. Nonmanipulative
    • 42. Quaker beliefs
    • 43. Management ability tostate a goal & reach itthrough others
    • 44. Personal growth
    • 45. Servant Leadership
    • 46. Empowerment
    • 47. Listening
    • 48. Introspection
18. Learning Extension
    
    • Elizabeth -1998
    Staring CateBlanchett
    Daughter of Henry VII becomes queen of England and shrewdly leads the country.The queen negotiates her way to consolidate her authority in a divided land between Catholics and Protestants.
    
19. 49. Learning Extension
    Documentary of
    LNelson Mandela s life.
    Contains footage of
    Mandelas sojourn back to
    Robben Island where
    spent two decades in
    prison. Portrays Mandels
    leadership style and work
    ethics as president of South
    Africa.
    
20. 50. Concluding Reflection Questions
    
    • What do you actually know about the leader (s) you most admire?
    • 51. What are the characteristics that stand out in you mind about them?
    • 52. What did the leaders actually do to merit being a leader?
    • 53. What types of contexts did your leaders encounter?
21. Leadership
    The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.They have either lost confidence that you
    can help them or
    concluded that you do not care.
    Either case is a failure of leadership
    Colin Powell
    
22. 54. Life isdrawingwithout an eraser
    
23. 55.
    • In life, you either follow paths or make trails.
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