Strong school leadership is, and will always be, crucial
to educational reform.
Mission:
To establish a program that allows exemplary leaders to intensify their
leadership capacity.
Conceptual model:
Leaders deepen and extend their capacity through a reflective learning cycle in
which they identify challenges they face, establish goals and strategies for learning
new leadership skills and competencies, invest in these strategies and new leadership
behaviors and competencies, and assess their effectiveness through feedback, evidence
of impacts, and reflection. Realizing the need for strong educational leadership, the
Exemplary Leader experience will provide successful, practicing leaders with the
opportunity to refine their existing leadership knowledge and skills and to stretch
their leadership capabilities.
Goals:
- To strengthen the collective educational leadership of Minnesota school leaders while also providing individual leaders with a powerful professional growth experience.
- To establish a unified, responsive group of respected educational leaders who are recognized statewide and nationwide for their expertise and who are sought out by legislators, business leaders, and others for insight and direction on educational issues.
The experience will
- refine existing leadership knowledge and skills
- deepen and extend leadership capacity (individually and collectively)
- provide a supportive environment for processing, planning, and preparing
- provide a process for addressing issues and solve problems
- create a unified voice for educational decisions and policies at state and national level
Benefits to individual:
- collaborate with other exemplary leaders
- strengthen own skills through an in-depth experience
- assistance with addressing district issues
- create and implement real change in your schools
Benefits to school district:
- synthesized research, facts, information on pertinent issues
- direction and insight for making informed decisions
- broader leadership input (collaborative expertise of exemplary leader learning community)
- solid return from investment of professional development of school leadership
Benefits to the profession:
- develop a unified voice for education
- serve others as a coach, mentor, facilitator
- provide useful, timely resources and information to colleagues
