Educational Leadership Constituent Council Case Study

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Shared Leadership for School and Community Relations
The Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC) standards serve to provide a skillset that administrators can employ in order to work towards obtaining continuous, fundamental change. It is clear that its primary goal is to identify standards and dispensations that, when implemented by a visionary leader, initiate a transformational process in schools whereby the core beliefs, norms, and values of the organization are analyzed and restructured in an effort to produce more effective schools
(Pitre & Smith, 2004).
This paper assesses Standard Elements 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4
2.1 Candidates understand and can sustain a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning …show more content…

4.4 Candidates understand and can respond to community interests and needs by building and sustaining productive school relationships with community partners.
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Contemporary school administrators play a daunting array of roles. They must be educational visionaries and change agents, instructional leaders, curriculum and assessment experts, budget analysts, facility managers, special program administrators, and community builders (Darling-Hammond, et al. 2007).
Research on educational leadership has to date focused largely on the work of teachers and principals. Many other people, however—including parents, students, and other members of the community—have the potential to influence education policy and practice (Wahlstrom et al. 2010), thus highlighting the importance of principals being able to work with a wide variety of stakeholders in order to provide quality leadership to improve the school culture. This paper will examine the standards and provide examples of how as a future educational leader, using the skills of distributed leadership; I …show more content…

The quote that it takes a village to raise a child, although over-used, seems appropriate. It takes a culture of teachers, parents, and community to attain success for our students. It is essential that as an educational leader, that an essential characteristic in building a
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positive school culture lies in having educators build their own capacities for leadership in this area. By employing a distributive leadership, I hope to build such capacities.
Distributive leadership encourages contributions from a variety of people to work toward student success. Distributed leadership assumes a set of practices that “are enacted by people at all levels rather than a set of personal characteristics and attributes located in people at the top.” (Wahlstrom et al. 2010) Research has shown that school leadership has a greater influence on schools and students when it is widely distributed.
(Leithwood, Louis, Anderson, & Wahlstrom, 2004) Additionally, the researchers summarized that almost all successful leaders draw on the same specific practices

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