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Overview

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The Way It Ought To Be

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TExES Domain 1: School Community Leadership

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TExES Domain 2: Instructional Leadership

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TExES Domain 3: Administrative Leadership

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Serviovanni’s Leadership Forces

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Five Forces

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What About the forces?

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A Comparison…

TExES Domains

School Community Leadership

Instructional Leadership

Administrative Leadership

School Community Leadership

Instructional Leadership

Administrative Leadership

Sergiovanni’s Forces

Cultural Leadership

Symbolic Leadership

Educational Leadership

Human Leadership

Technical Leadership

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The Way It Ought To Be…

• School leaders need to spend their time primarily doing what?

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The Way It Is: How Principals Spend Their Time

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How Do Principals View Librarians?

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What Principals Say… (Lau, 2002)

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So What?

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Identify the “Disconnect”

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The Librarian as a Leader

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Professional Ideals for All EducatorsHow can librarians exhibit…?

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Groups: In what ways can librarians espouse professional ideas and function as leaders?

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Ideas…

• Librarians must make themselves more visible by better articulating their mission and the impact they have on student learning.

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Practical Suggestions…

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Finally: Build the Bridge!!!

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Thoughts for when you go back to school tomorrow…

• “Anything unattempted remains impossible.”—Unknown

• “As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”—Ralph Waldo

Emerson

• “Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.”—David O. McKay

• We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of

the difficulty in every opportunity.”—Unknown

• “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s how you carry it.”—Lena Horne

• “Kites rise highest against the wind—not with it.”—Sir Winston Churchill

• “My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your

failure.”— Abraham Lincoln

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SourcesFinding Time for What is Important: Instructional Leadership IASB… (

www.ia-sb.org/uploadedFiles/IASB/Convention_Web/Convention_2007_Handouts/Session%2028%20Principal%20Ldrshp.ppt)

Hartzell, G. (2002). Why Should Principals Support School Libraries? ERIC Digest. ERIC Identifier: ED470034 (http://www.fundourfuturewashington.org/resources/ERIC+Principals-Libraries.pdf)

Lau, D. (2002). What Does Your Boss Think About You? School Library Journal (http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA240049)

Sergiovanni, T.J. (2007). Rethinking Leadership. A Collection of Articles. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

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