the Changing Role of the PRINCIPAL
Mystics:
No order
Theory = Practice
Non-Science
Practice = Principal’s knowledge

Before we MOVE forward,
should we not LOOK backward?
Traditional Management Theory
Routine Competence & Performance
Traditional = Old
Old = Military?
Anybody work for "that guy?"
Anybody want to?
Linear Conditions
Highly Structured
Does this look familiar?
Leader gets ahead, and
leaves everybody behind!
 
Are there 
Limits of TMT?
Is it acceptable in today's schools?
Linear?
Predictable?
Orderly Situations?
it IS limited:
Achieves minimums not maximums
Grounded in bureacratic leadership
Relies on rules & formal expectations

"One Size Fits All"
One Size Fits All?
Not when it comes to leadership in education!
"Those leaders that are most effective do not experience fewer problems, they just deal with them differently."
What will you do differently?
Thoughts, ideas?
Ponder this....
Thinking yet?
Moving on...
Mindscapes
= a theory of practice
influencing our
Three Mindscapes 
from Sergiovanni:
Neats
Scruffies
Mystics
Do not value Theory 
or Research.  

They believe these are 
irrelevent to practice.
Theory & Research are directly related.

Theory & Research
are only one source. 

Knowledge informs
practice - INTUITION
Knowledge designs  practice.

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Neats:
"Magic Bullet"
Organized
Systematic
Strives for logical process
No "rage against the machine"
C

2
Leader so easily accepted?
Why is the "Cookie Cutter"
Scruffies:
Adept Understandings
A craft-like science
Make sense of "messy" situations
Rooted in theories of practice
Reflective Practice
Reflections?
Take a good look in the mirror
Take a good look in the mirror
Informed Tuition
Become a student AND leader
Complexity of problems
"Reflective Practice requires the principal to have a healthy respect for, be well informed about, and use the best available theory and research and accumulated practice wisdom."
Issues?
School Structure
Strategic Planning
People & Improvement
Compliance
Motivation
Schools are managerially tight but culturally loose.
Schools are managerially loose but culturally tight
Clarity, control, consensus are important to effective management and are achieved by deailed planning.
Clarity, control, consensus are important to effective management and are achieved by planning strategically.
When it comes to fitting people in first, emphasize ends, then ways, then means.
When it comes to school improvement, first emphasize means, then ways, then ends.
To manage compliance, identify and announce goals, use goals to develop work requirements, use work requirements to develop compliance strategy and then observe involvement and commitment consequences and correct as necessary.
To manage compliance, first establish your compliance strategy, develop complimentary work requirements, decide on a work strategy and evaluate.
What gets rewarded gets done.
What is rewarding gets done, gets done well, and gets done without close supervision or other controls.
5 groups &
ANALYZE
Strategic Planning:
OLD=Clarity, control, consensus are important to effective management, detailed planning
NEW=Clarity, control, consensus are important to effective management, achieved by planning strategically
Compliance:
OLD=Identify and announce goals, use goals to develop work requirements, use work requirements to develop compliance strategy and then observe involvement and commitment, consequences and correct as necessary.
NEW=First establish your compliance strategy, develop complimentary work requirements, decide on a work strategy and evaluate.
People & Improvement Planning:
OLD=When it comes to fitting people in; means, then ways, then ends.
NEW=When it comes to School  Improvement; means, then ways, then ends.
Motivation:
OLD=What gets rewarded gets done.
NEW=What is rewarding gets done, gets done well, and gets done without close supervision.
School Structure:
OLD=Managerially Tight, Culturally Loose
NEW=Managerially loose, Culturally Tight
Moving towards "Control Strategies"
Sergiovanni's SIX:
Direct Supervision
Standardized Work Process
Standardizing Outcomes
Professional Socialization
Purposing & Shared Values
Collegiality & Natural Interdependence
Basic Principles 
of Organizing
"When 'professional socialization,' 'purposing and shared values,' and 'collegiality' are emphasized, they function as substitutes for leadership."
Issues of control take care of themselves
COOPERATION
EMPOWERMENT
RESPONSIBILITY
ACCOUNTABILITY
MEANINGFULNESS
ABILITY-AUTHORITY
CAN Y0U HANDLE IT?
Some words of wisdom & motivation
Now go out there and "change some lives!"
Changing Mindscapes