Redefining Roles

Transforming bureaucracies into learning organizations requires the redefinition of key leadership roles; everyone’s role must change. Leadership development must be linked with system development—neither can be an independent endeavor. If system and leadership development are not aligned, it is unlikely that district and school leaders will develop the skills and capacity to lead change.

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Contact the Schlechty Center for tools that address developing leaders at all levels: 

  • Teacher as Leader, Designer, and Guide to Instruction, designing engaging academic work for students and leading them to success in that work

  • Principal as Leader of Leaders, providing direction, developing others, ensuring disciplined conversations, and seeking ways to increase engagement for students and staff

  • Central Office as Capacity Builders, assessing and developing central office leaders to better understand their role in a learning organization

  • Superintendent as Moral and Intellectual Leader, embodying the moral authority and commitment to beliefs, traditions, and values

  • School Board Engagement, describing, discussing, and making the case for engaged, compliant, or alienated board members