1) A school district wants to transform its leadership development program to support 21st century learning and system-wide reform. 2) The program will use a professional learning framework based on communities of practice to enhance the capacity of educational leaders. 3) The framework is designed in three phases and uses an iterative process to build 21st century leadership skills through learning theory, digital portfolios, and a sustainable community of practice.

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