Preparing for leadershipWhat is Leadership?Leadership is relationship?Is there a leader type?Leadership in contextAre Teachers Leaders?Teacher leadersSchool Librarians as LeadersMedia Specialist LeadershipLMS Leadership Pays Off!Finding from Colorado:Slide 12Slide 13Preparing for Leadership?Slide 15Applying Action ResearchSlide 17Slide 18Preparing for Preparing for leadershipleadershipLIBLIB 604 Libraries in the School Curriculum604 Libraries in the School CurriculumSpring 2009Spring 20092What is Leadership?At its essence, leading is all about relationships – growing the connections among individuals that permit collective, collaborative thinking and action.Leaders motivate, join forces in articulating a common vision and goals, and support others in conceiving and implementing plans for action.January 15, 2019Preparing for LeadershipLeadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow, and any discussion of leadership must attend to the dynamics of this relationship.Leadership is a Relationshipby Barry Z. Posner, PhD, Dean and professor of leadership at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University January 15, 20193Preparing for LeadershipLeadership is relationship?4Is there a leader type?We say, “So-and-so is a born leader.” No such thing. Leadership is a relationship between a person and a group plus the skills to guide the group to success. As with any relationship, success depends on both parties. One group’s stellar leader may fail utterly when leading another group.Stever Robbins: Stever Column - The Essence of Leadership January 15, 2019Preparing for Leadership45Leadership in contextLeadership is not just dependent on an individual’s unique qualities. “Successful leaders have learned to view their organizations’ environment in a holistic way.”9 They understand and model the core values of the institution.Leading on the Wave of ChangeKnowledge Quest on the Web:January/February 2001Debbie Abilock, Editor January 15, 2019Preparing for Leadership56Are Teachers Leaders?Teachers provide a powerful and insightful voice regarding decisions about school change because teachers have knowledge of local school conditions. . . a teacher’s power is essential both within and beyond the walls of the classroom.January 15, 2019Preparing for Leadership6eJournalBC Educational Leadership Research. Issue 3. March 16, 2006Taylor Webb7Teacher leadersVarious studies indicate that effective teacher leadership involves a move away from top-down, hierarchical modes of functioning and a move toward shared decision-making, teamwork, and community building.Teachers as Leaders in Education Reform. ERIC Digest. by Wynne, Joan January 15, 2019Preparing for Leadership78School Librarians as LeadersA curricular leader and a full participant on the instructional team, the library media specialist constantly updates personal skills and knowledge in order to work effectively with teachers, administrators, and other staff--both to expand their general understanding of information issues and to provide them with specific opportunities to develop sophisticated skills in information literacy, including the uses of information technology.Roles and Responsibilities of the School Library Media SpecialistJanuary 15, 2019Preparing for Leadership 89Media Specialist LeadershipJanuary 15, 2019Preparing for Leadership910LMS Leadership Pays Off!Academic achievement increases when school librarians are leaders in their schools.Library media specialists who seek leadership roles and partnerships with administrators create strong library media programs translating into academic achievement. This is an indirect relationship. That is, leadership translates to higher collaboration with teachers in creating quality learning experiences that in turn, has a direct impact on academic achievement.David Loertscher, Powering Achievement: School Library media Programs Make a DifferenceJanuary 15, 2019Preparing for Leadership 1011Finding from Colorado:Loertscher: Leadership and AchievementPowerPoint SlidesFor Colorado (and other) studies see School Library Impact Studies12http://eduscapes.com/sms/overview/leadership.htmlhttp://eduscapes.com/sms/overview/leadership.html14Preparing for Leadership?1516Applying Action ResearchUnderstanding the concept and process of action research will prepare the library media specialist to take a leadership role in improving both the library media center and the entire school program.17Evidence-Based Practice is not complicated. It is a simple process of paying attention to what you do and keeping a record of how that helps teachers and students. As Ross Todd explains, Evidence-Based Practice is “knowing and showing how the school library program helps students learn.” For more information on Evidence-Based Practice, please click here.18Instructions: Go to the action research project you wish to participate in and read, comment on, or add your own action research project done in your school.Are Two Heads Better Than One?When Collaboration Doesn’t Work and When It DoesBan Those Bird