The Impact of Leadership
in School Culture &
Student Achievements
Reported by: Crissel R. Anthony
“PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP
remains key to school
success.”
(Hart & Bredeson,1996)
5 Main Tasks of Principal
01 Provide the school community with a vision of academic
success for students.
02 places student success as its top priority.
Create a climate that is safe, welcoming, cooperative, and that
03 leadership and thus creating buy-in.
Develop the staff around them by distributing their
04 Provide instructional leadership in the form of direct
coaching of teachers by instituting systems that facilitate
improving teachers’ instructional practice.
05 Set up systems and processes to collect and analyze data
in order to drive school improvement.
Theoretical Framework Model of School Leadership
Collaborative
Leadership
LEADERSHIP Unity of
Purpose
Teacher
Collaboration
Professional
Development
CULTURE
Collegial Support
Learning
Partnership
Theoretical Framework Model of School Leadership
LEADERSHIP -is defined as collaborative
leadership and unity of purpose.
Collaborative Leadership -The degree to which
school leaders establish and maintain
collaborative relationships with school staff.
Unity of Purpose – The degree to
which teachers work toward a
common mission for the school.
CULTURE – The totality of
organization experience.
Theoretical Framework Model of School Leadership
Teacher Collaboration – The degree to which
teachers engage in constructive dialog that furthers
the educational vision of the school.
Professional Development – The degree to which
teacher value continuous personal development and
school-wide improvement.
Collegial Support – The degree to which
teachers work together effectively.
Learning Partnership – The degree to which
teachers, parents, & student work together
for the common good of the student.
SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
The leader is able to articulate a shared vision for
their schools and create learning organizations
that focus on continuous improvement.
Leaders of 21 century schools focus on the
st
most important facet of the schooling process
instruction.
-Leithwood &
Rield,2005
Educational leaders must establish new
norms for behavior that establish learning
communities wherein the expertise of all
members of the faculty are maximized to
support the school’s mission.
Leader is defined as change agent,
facilitator, and consensus builder.
-Beck & Murphy,1993-
“Successful educational leaders understand the
goals of public education in the 21st century and act
collaboratively to develop a shared vision of
success ; They regularly reflect on their beliefs and
values with regard to purpose of education and act
to create a culture and climate that supports
student achievements
-Darling-Hammond,2007-
IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP TO SCHOOL CULTURE
“School culture describes the character of
a school “as it reflects deep patterns of
values, beliefs, and traditions that have
been formed over the course of its
history.”
Leader’s decisions and actions have a
direct impact on the school’s culture.
The goal of school leadership should
be to positively influence culture for
raising student achievement.
IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP TO STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Teachers have been identified as the
most important school level
resource that’s impacts student
achievements.
Teacher Quality
TEACHING EXPERIENCE appears to have a
relationship to student achievement.
The SUBJECT-SPECIFIC PEDAGOGY and CLASSROOM
MANAGEMENT appeared to be the most important
teacher preparation components.
TEACHERS COURSEWORK, both pedagogy
and subject taught contributes to positive
student results.
Quality teachers must be recruited ,
retained and equally distributed throughout
classrooms in order to ensure that all
children have an opportunity to learn.
Leadership predicts culture,
Culture predicts teacher
retention, and teacher retention
predicts student achievement.
SOURCE OF MY
REPORT:
THE IMPACT OF
LEADERSHIP ON
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SCHOOL CULTURE
AND STUDENT
ACHIEVEMNET
Case study of
Matthew Joseph
Piotrowsky of
ClemsonUniversity