Reflections on Leadership and Change Virginia L' McLaughlin Dean, School of Education College of Wil

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Reflections on Leadership and
ChangeVirginia L. McLaughlinDean, School of
EducationCollege of William and Mary

• Chesterfield County
• Issues in Leadership
• Breakfast Series
• February 7, 2005

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Possible Titles

• Leadership for Change
• Leadership for a Change
• Changing Leadership
• Leadership in a Culture of Change (Fullan)

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Leadership

• Working with people and through people
• to accomplish important goals
• (Astin Leland)

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Leadership

• Working with people and through people
• to accomplish important goals
• in a particular environmental context

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The Importance of Context in

• Defining important goals
• Identifying critical players and roles
• Reinventing how we work

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Key changes in the context for education

• Since SOL and SOA?
• Since NCLB?
• Since elected school boards?

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In our ever changing world

• Even the best organizations
• must continually adapt
• in order to maintain and enhance
• overall effectiveness

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Good as the enemy of great(Jim Collins)
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The Leadership Challenge

• Collective mobilization for problem-solving and
  improvement
• creating impetus for change
• in ways that motivate and energize

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A Framework for Leadership
Fullan, M. (2001). Leading in a culture of
change. San Francisco Jossey-Bass.
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SURPRISE!

• The change process is even more complicated
• than we thought!

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A Meta-Analysis of 35 Years of Research on School
Leadership(Marzano, Waters, McNulty, 2005)

• Meta-analysis of 69 studies involving 2.8K
  schools, 14K teachers, 1.4M students
• Correlation between principal leadership and
  student achievement .25
• Identification of 21 Responsibilities of the
  School Leader
• Responsibilities differentiated by order of change

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Leadership Responsibilities Important to
Second-Order Change

• Knowledge of curriculum, instruction, and
  assessment
• Optimizer
• Intellectual Stimulation

• Change Agent
• Monitoring/Evaluating
• Flexibility
• Ideas/Beliefs

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Responsibilities that May Suffer with
Second-Order Change

• Culture
• Communication
• Order
• Input

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• The need for truly effective leadership is great.
• The time for improving our schools is short.
• The opportunity to lead is ours.
• Marzano, R.J., Waters, T., McNulty, B.A.
  (2005). School leadership that works From
  research to results. Alexandria, VA ASCD.