Matthew Baughman's List: Educational Leadership Ideas

• effective uses of technology as major themes associated with technology leadership
• use of data for decision making, parental involvement in schools, and more.
• people to participate in reform to ensure its success. The school leader's role is not to identify and promote any particular reform strategy but to develop leadership and collaborate with the staff, parents, and community members to increase the school's success and improvement efforts over time. This shift in leadership focus—from locating the "right" reform initiative to people development and collaboration—parallels the change in corporate leadership models as well.
• Transformational leaders make decisions based on a broad perspective, organizational vision and mission, group goals, and network development.
• ostering acceptance of group goals.
• Providing appropriate models
• Providing intellectual stimulatio
• A strong sense of moral purpose
• An emotional intelligence as they build relationship
• A commitment to developing and sharing new knowledge.
• leadership involves working with others to prepare for the future and respond to change

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• A core characteristic of the vision is an undeviating focus on student learning, maintains Louis and Kruse (1995), in which each student's potential achievement is carefully considered. These shared values and vision lead to binding norms of behavior that the staff supports.

  In such a community, the individual staff member is responsible for his/her actions, but the common good is placed on a par with personal ambition. The relationships between individuals are described as caring. Such caring is supported by open communication, made possible by trust (Fawcett, 1996).