Post Grad: Session 11 - Educational Leadership

 Leading Educational Change and Leadership Styles

Insight

What Makes a Leader?

• Are you a leader? 
• Have you been in a leadership role? 
• Think that being a teacher is a leadership role (since you try to influence others)? - 
• Do you think that kids can be leaders?

Use AI to create an image of a Good Leader:

Discuss: What did this task teach us about Bias, human or machine? 

And what could we, as educators, do to broaden how leadership is represented and understood in 2026?

To manage change, many people /teachers use strategies to help even when they feel like an imposter or question the validity of being in that new position. Such as:

• Fake it until you make it
• Resilence
• Don't insult your manager's intelligence; they picked you for a reason. They saw something in you!

Some situations/leaders that have challenging change can ruin your confidence.

Readiness for change affects how people deal with it and how long they may take to make changes.

Is there a difference between a leader and a manager?

Takeaways

Change is perpetual, always happening and can be pervasive.

NEED GOOD REASONS (Purpose) for Change

MODELING to help direct Change

INSTRUCTION to help Change

Reflection

The only style I would like to add is Visionary, but I am currently more happy to help someone else reach their vision. This could be because I am happy with the direction this school is going. If I were to change schools, I would like to share some of the vision at this place to help another. (Not saying it is the best way; just some of the ideas and ways things work are inspirational).