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Instructional leadership 05.26.12

Instructional leadership encompasses actions that principals take to promote student learning growth. It includes defining the school's purpose, setting goals, providing resources for learning, supervising teachers, coordinating staff development, and creating collaborative relationships among teachers. Research shows that instructional leadership has significant positive effects on student achievement. Principals play a key role as instructional leaders by setting the school vision, acting as an instructional resource, and ensuring a supportive environment for teaching and learning.

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INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP: AN EMERGING STRATEGIC AGENDA FOR IMPROVED LEARNER ACHIEVEMENT Fe A. Hidalgo, Ph.D
What is Instructional Leadership?
Instructional Leadership “Instructional Leadership encompasses---” Those actions that a principal takes or delegates to others, to promote growth in student learning (Debevoise; 1984). It comprises the following tasks:  defining the purpose of schooling  setting school-wide goals  providing resources needed for learning to occur
 supervising and evaluating teachers  coordinating staff development programs  creating collegial relationships with and among teachers
Marsh 1992 defines Instructional Leadership “is something specific to a principal. It refers to anything that school leaders do to improve teaching and learning in the school. It focuses on learning and its promotion. This is the reason why instructional leaders are also called learning leaders”.
What is the difference between leadership and management?
Leadership Management • Are their own • Are good soldiers persons • Think radically • Think incrementally • Ask what and why • Ask how and when • Innovate • Administer • Inspire trust • Ensure efficiency/ control • Have a long range • Have pragmatic/ perspective operational views • Eye the horizon • Eye the bottom line
Leadership Management • Challenge the status • Sustain the status quo quo • Focus on people and • Focus on structures/ relationship systems and tasks/ deliverables • Communicate • Command • Originate • Imitate • Do the right things • Do things right Source: Dean Tony La Viňa, Ateneo School of Government
Who play the role of instructional leadership?
Provision in RA 9155 (Governance of Basic Education Act 2001) states (The Shift in Locus and Focus of the Leadership Roles of Principal in School Improvement) “There shall be a school head for all public elementary schools or a cluster thereof. The establishment of integrated schools from existing public elementary and public high schools shall be encouraged.”
The school head, who may be assisted by an assistant school head, shall be both an instructional leader and administrative manager. The school head shall form a team with the school teachers/learning facilitators for delivery of quality educational programs, projects and services. A core of non-teaching staff shall handle the school’s administrative, fiscal and auxiliary services,
1. Setting the mission, vision, goals and objectives of the school; 2. Creating an environment within the school that is conducive to teaching and learning; 3. Implementing the school curriculum and being accountable for higher learning outcomes; 4. Developing the school education program and school improvement plan; 5. Offering educational programs, projects and services which provide equitable opportunity for all learners in the community;
6. Introducing new innovative methods of instruction to achieve higher learning outcomes; 7. Administering and managing all personnel, physical and fiscal resources of the school; 8. Recommending the staffing complement of the school based on its needs; 9. Encouraging staff development; and 10.Establishing school and community network and encouraging the active participation of teachers organizations, non-academic personnel of public schools, and parents-teachers-community associations.
What are the Roles of Instructional Leaders?
Roles of Instructional Leaders  In general, they improve teaching and learning in the school.  They lead in setting the school vision and formulating strategies.  They are resource provider.  They are instructional resource.  They provide a visible presence in the school.
Roles of Instructional Leaders  They understand effective practices in school.  They define the school mission.  They understand effective practices in curriculum, instruction and assessment.  They promote and participate in teacher learning and development.
Roles of Instructional Leaders  They ensure supportive and orderly environment.  They understand effective pedagogy.
What does research tell us about Instructional Leadership?
The Victorian Educational Leadership consortium states their research-based conclusions related to school leadership 1. Leadership has significant effects on student learning, second only to the effects of the quality of curriculum and teachers’ instruction. 2. Currently, administrators and teacher leaders provide most of the leadership in schools, but other potential sources of leadership exist.
3. A core set of leadership practices from the “Basics” of successful leadership and are valuable in almost all educational contexts. 4. Successful school leaders respond productively to challenges and opportunities created by the accountability-oriented policy context in which they work.
5. Successful school leaders respond productively to the opportunities and challenges of educating diverse groups of students.