judith epcke's List: Ed_Leadership

• a servant who supports and empowers others
• Sergiovanni
• we need to move the moral dimension in leadership away from the periphery and right to the center of practice.
• Leadership is morally purposeful and elevating. This is the central theme of educational leadership
• the professional association standards accentuate technical skill development
• perhaps due to the perceived need to develop technical competence among school leaders (especially at the entry level) as a basis for practice
• What are the characteristics of principals that make them leaders?

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• do the leadership attributes described by popular writers and theorists apply to school leaders?
• Warren Bennis
• 1994 work On Becoming a Leader, wrote that leadership is like beauty: It's hard to define, but you know it when you see it.
• * Technical skills
• Covey's "habit" of knowing how to put first things first
• Gardner's call for possessing task competence
• Conceptual skills
• bility to see the big picture
• envision change.
• inspiring a shared vision
• Human skills.

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