Effective School Leadership: Instructional and Visionary Approaches

This presentation delves into the concepts of instructional and visionary leadership within an educational context. It highlights the significance of effective leadership in shaping school environments, influencing student outcomes, and fostering a culture of learning. The presentation emphasizes the importance of both instructional leadership, which focuses on curriculum development and student performance, and visionary leadership, which integrates coaching, democratic, and affiliated styles to create a cohesive school vision. It argues that a combination of these leadership styles is most effective for school leadership, promoting feedback, clear values, and a student-centered approach. The presentation also contrasts these styles with others, emphasizing their unique focus on learning, student experiences, and the development of critical thinking skills. References are provided to support the concepts discussed.

LEADERSHIP AND
EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT

Leadershi
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• Leadership is a way through which a person
can influence the behaviour of the people
and direct then in such a way that they can
achieve the desired goals.
• Educational leaders often plays in
transforming the reputation, attitude, and
climate of the schools. Leadership style used
by the high authorities make huge
differences in the results.
• With effective leadership style, school will
employ effective incubators of places, and
learning where the students have not only
excelled in education but are also
encouraged and nurtured.

Importance
of
leadership
• Effective school leaders will be able to make
effective learning environment.
• Efficient leaders are able to resolve the
complex issues through which they can
inculcate strength and empower the
students to take risk and innovative that will
enhance their creative thinking.
• Although, there are several types of
leadership types in order to run the school
but in order to find the mot effective one.
One needs to evaluate different leadership
styles in relation to school (Anderson, &
Wallin, 2018).

• No one leadership is effective for the success of the school. Therefore, this
discussion chose visionary as well as instructional leadership to run a school.
• This presentation uses a combinational of both visionary as well as
instructional leadership.
• Visionary leadership is a fusion of three types of leadership styles including
Coaching, democratic, and affiliated leadership. Whereas, instructional
leadership is the curriculum of management with effective movement of
school that can become a key to successful school leaders and principles.

Instructional leadership

Instructional
leadership
• This leadership is marked by the principle
scoring high for such a management style
where schools explicit management through
curriculum development and through
school`s goal.
• This principle focus on student`s
performance levels and the examination
results related to it.
• Principle of the school who has high scoring
make sure that teachers activities are
aligned with professional development
activities with the curriculum objectives as
well the school`s vision (Louis, Murphy, &
Smylie, 2016).

Advantage
s over
other
leadership
styles
• A school is an learning institute and
instructional leadership supports this
attitude.
• The evaluation in the schools either self
evaluation or faculty evaluation are very
frequent.
• Principals firmly support the task of teaching
to support as well as construct knowledge
(Louis, Murphy, & Smylie, 2016).
• Schools that are totally based on
instructional leadership means there is more
feedback to the teachers regarding students
as well as themselves.

• No leadership make use of appraisal process
that aims to child`s learning outcomes
whereas, other leadership styles are only
associated with managing aspect of teaching
without using effective, supportive appraisals
and also the feedback process in order to
improve the instruction.
• A democratic style may wholly empower the
teachers and students to make rules which is
not at all effective for them as students are at
their development stage and they need an
effective curriculum plan.

• Visionary leadership helps to develop the
beliefs according to the stakeholders and
articulations according to the vision and
mission statement. This style of leadership
straightforwardly focus on learning and is
considered for learning. Apart from this,
student`s experiences and their results are
at the centre of mission and vision of the
school.
• Visionary and instructional leadership style
focuses on transforming the thinking to
creativity, knowledge, and emotional
intelligence by engaging them in academic
as well as co-curriculum activities. Whereas,
very few leadership styles focus on learning
aspect (Anderson, & Wallin, 2018).

Conclusion • From the above discussion, it can be
concluded that instructional and visionary
leadership is best suitable for school
leadership.
• Instructional leadership delegates feedback
trait that helps to improve the school`s
values.
• Visionary leadership creates vision as it is
the centre of attraction for both schools as
well as teachers.

References • Louis, K. S., Murphy, J., & Smylie, M. (2016).
Caring leadership in schools: Findings from
exploratory analyses. Educational
Administration Quarterly, 52(2), 310-348.
• Anderson, V., & Wallin, P. (2018).
Instructional Coaching: Enhancing
Instructional Leadership in Schools. National
Teacher Education Journal, 11(2).