Page 18 - Personal Leadership Charter
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Practices
Capabilities require leaders to integrate practices based on their skills, knowledge
and attitudes in new and unfamiliar circumstances. in other words, it is actually
doing something, taking action, (observable behaviour) that makes a leader, not
just claiming to be able to do something. it’s what you do, not what you say.
simply stating that a person has a skill is different from demonstrating it through
practice.
Go back to the example of the interview for a vice-principalship mentioned
above. in making his or her case the applicant states: “i notice from your position
description that you are looking for someone who is skilled in evidence based
leadership. Well, that is one of my strong suits; i am good at it.”
Great statement, but can it be backed up? if not, it becomes meaningless!
in this case, the applicant should be able to provide the selection Panel with
evidence that they have been involved in such practices such as:
> Ensuring ongoing conversations of student data
> Creating opportunities for moderation of student work
> Using multiple forms of data and evidence to inform practices
> Focussing the school community collectively to improve learning and
achievement for all
Practice simply means ‘what this looks like as it is happening’. For example, for
evidence based decision making look at the EsF Leadership Capability Framework
(2012), Part 2, Leading Others.
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