As Educational Leaders, we can use blogs to learn the latest news in any field of interest, to action research educational issues, to model continuous learning, to tell real stories about the environment to encourage learning, to share school news, to communicate in emergencies with a school or community. Blogs can be used to better connect and communicate with all stakeholders or a small community of learners. Blogs can be used by university cohorts to connect for class learning, sharing, projects, and assignments. Blogs can be used by leaders for team building.
In the book, The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner, the authors describe 5 practices of exemplary leadership, which are the following:
1. Model the Way, 2. Inspire a Shared Vision, 3. Challenge the Process, 4. Enable Others to Act, and 5. Encourage the Heart (http://blogs.extension.iastate.edu/hr/2012/01/19/be-the-leader-others-want-you-to-be/). As a leader we must use technology like blogging and many others to model the way for teachers to use blogs in teaching. As leaders we must communicate our vision and help stakeholders share in the vision and this can be easily accomplished through blogging. As leaders we must challenge and lead in the process. So through blogging we express need for change and challenge the team to help make it happen. The team can follow the blog and add posts to the blog to contribute to the vision and action research. As a leader uses a blog it will enable others to act and participate. As an educational leader who blogs we can encourage the heart of ourselves and other stakeholders when we share the vision, share in the process and work together as part of the team instead of standing above with the attitude of "do as I say not as I do". As an educational leader we need to be an active blogger; posting, searching, and reading blogs.
1. Model the Way, 2. Inspire a Shared Vision, 3. Challenge the Process, 4. Enable Others to Act, and 5. Encourage the Heart (http://blogs.extension.iastate.edu/hr/2012/01/19/be-the-leader-others-want-you-to-be/). As a leader we must use technology like blogging and many others to model the way for teachers to use blogs in teaching. As leaders we must communicate our vision and help stakeholders share in the vision and this can be easily accomplished through blogging. As leaders we must challenge and lead in the process. So through blogging we express need for change and challenge the team to help make it happen. The team can follow the blog and add posts to the blog to contribute to the vision and action research. As a leader uses a blog it will enable others to act and participate. As an educational leader who blogs we can encourage the heart of ourselves and other stakeholders when we share the vision, share in the process and work together as part of the team instead of standing above with the attitude of "do as I say not as I do". As an educational leader we need to be an active blogger; posting, searching, and reading blogs.
The 5 practices of exemplary leadership are the core of who we should strive to be as leaders. One of my favorite quotes is, "Leadership is action, not position." Leaders need to share their thoughts, beliefs and values with members of the organization. We need to established relationships and feel comfortable transferring leadership.
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