The document outlines a three-phase professional learning framework for developing 21st century leadership excellence. It discusses establishing a knowledge building community through a communities of practice model using digital portfolios. The framework is intended to enhance leadership capacity and support system-wide reform efforts in a school district seeking to advance its learning environment.

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 district needs to move forward in a 21st
Century learning environment
•Leadership development program needed 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

5. Iterative Design Educational Leadership
and Technology Integration CoP
Can you find evidence that
supports the implementation
of a CoP for 21st century
professional development
framework?

6. Iterative Design Educational Leadership
and Technology Integration CoP
Can you find evidence that
supports the implementation
of a CoP for 21st century
professional development
framework?