This document outlines the creation of a professional learning framework for educational leaders. It discusses the need for leadership development programs to enhance capacity for 21st century learning. The framework is based on a three phase learning model and uses digital portfolios within a community of practice to build sustainable leadership skills for educational change. The goal is to determine how learning theory and e-portfolios can create an effective community of practice for developing leadership abilities and integrating technology.

1. Taking The Lead:
Creating
Leadership
Excellence for 21st
Century Learning
Barb & Marcie
Creating a Knowledge Building Community:
A Professional Learning Framework for Leaders Who
Lead Change

2. Scenario and Rationale
•School districts need to move forward in a 21st
Century learning environment.
•Leadership development programs need to
enhance capacity of leaders.
•System wide reform, with “right drivers”
(Fullan, 2011)
•Leadership second only to classroom
instruction as an influence on student learning
(Leithwood & Louis, 2012)

3. Getting the Right Step
Research Question:
Before: To what extent can learning theory and
digital e-portfolios create a successful CoP
professional development framework for
educational leadership and technology
integration?
After: To what extent can learning theory and
digital e-portfolios create a sustainable
CoP framework that builds 21st
educational leadership capacity?

4. Quicken your
Step
Three Phases of Learning Model
NOTE: This model is an adaptation of Paavola, Lipponen and Hakkarinen (2004)
Three Metaphors Learning

5. Iterative Design Educational Leadership
and Technology Integration CoP

6. References
Fullan, M. (2011). Choosing the wrong drivers for whole system reform.
Centre for Strategic Education Seminar Series Paper No. 204, May 2011.
Retrieved from http://www.michaelfullan.ca/media/13436787590.html
Leithwood, K., & Louis, K. (2012). Linking leadership to student learning.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Paavola, S., & Hakkarainen, K., Lipponen. (2004). Models of innovative
knowledge communities and three metaphors of learning. Review of
Educational Research, 74(4), 557-576. Doi: 10.3102/00346543074004557

7. References
Fullan, M. (2011). Choosing the wrong drivers for whole system reform.
Centre for Strategic Education Seminar Series Paper No. 204, May 2011.
Retrieved from http://www.michaelfullan.ca/media/13436787590.html
Leithwood, K., & Louis, K. (2012). Linking leadership to student learning.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Paavola, S., & Hakkarainen, K., Lipponen. (2004). Models of innovative
knowledge communities and three metaphors of learning. Review of
Educational Research, 74(4), 557-576. Doi: 10.3102/00346543074004557