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Instructional Leadership

Instructional leadership focuses on improving student performance and making instructional quality the top priority. An instructional leader works with teachers to define educational objectives, provide resources for learning, and create new learning opportunities for students and staff. This collaborative approach results in a learning environment where learning is shared by all educators and a top-down process led by excited leaders. The benefits of instructional leadership include providing clear direction, prioritizing what matters for student learning, knowing what happens in classrooms, developing staff strengths, and sustaining improvement despite obstacles.

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Instructional Leadership

Instructional leadership focuses on improving student performance and making instructional quality the top priority. An instructional leader works with teachers to define educational objectives, provide resources for learning, and create new learning opportunities for students and staff. This collaborative approach results in a learning environment where learning is shared by all educators and a top-down process led by excited leaders. The benefits of instructional leadership include providing clear direction, prioritizing what matters for student learning, knowing what happens in classrooms, developing staff strengths, and sustaining improvement despite obstacles.

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Instructional Leadership

There has been much discussion regarding the relative effectiveness of different leadership
styles in bringing about improved student performance. Instructional leadership is one of the
most useful tools in creating a forward-looking, student-centered school environment.

Instructional leadership can be defined as "those actions that a principal takes, or delegates to
others, to promote growth in student learning." In practice, this means that the principal
encourages educational achievement by making instructional quality the top priority of the
school and brings that vision to realization. The role of an instructional leader differs from
that of traditional school administrator in a number of meaningful ways. Whereas a
conventional principal spends the majority of his/her time dealing with strictly administrative
duties, a principal who is an instructional leader is charged with redefining his/her role to
become the primary learner in a community striving for excellence in education. As such, it
becomes the principal’s responsibility to work with teachers to define educational objectives
and set school-wide or district wide goals, provide the necessary resources for learning, and
create new learning opportunities for students and staff.

Benefits
The result of instructional leadership is a collaborative learning environment where learning
is not confined to the classroom and is the objective of all educators. Instructional leadership
is an important departure from the ancient model of administrator as authoritarian. Inherent in
the concept is the idea that learning should be a top-down process. If those in charge of the
school are excited about learning, then they will share their enthusiasm throughout the
community.

Those who learn to be instructional leaders acquire many characteristics that are beneficial to
their schools and communities. Instructional leaders exhibit a clear sense of direction for their
schools and prioritize and focus attention on the things that really matter in terms of the work
of students. Furthermore, instructional leaders know what is happening in their classrooms
and develop the capacities of staff by building on their strengths and reducing their
weaknesses. These leaders also attempt to sustain improvement and change in their schools
by anticipating and overcoming the obstacles that inevitably will emerge along the way.

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