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A Leadership Platform - Where
do we begin?
An educational platform is a declaration of the
principles on which you stand. It encompasses your strongly held beliefs -
these drive what you do.
You cannot be a successful leader unless you have consciously developed
and articulated a leadership platform. For a school leader, this is based upon
your beliefs about education and people. A solid platform (one that can guide
meaningful action) begins with thinking critically about what we stand for and
why we believe this. And then laying this out explicitly for discussion / debate
with others. It’s that simple….. and that complex.
An educational platform “is made up of those basic assumptions, beliefs,
attitudes and values that are underpinnings of an educator’s behavior
(they also affirm that) just as a political party is supposed to base its decisions
and actions on a party platform, so too educators carry on their work, make
decisions, and plan instruction based on their educational platform”
(Sergiovanni & Starrat, 2001, p. 70).
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