Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, and school faculty are utilizing team leadership to transform the American Public School System. Recently, the United States has fallen to 10th in the world for education. With the United States currently being the best country in the world, 10th in the world is not good.
In Hill’s Model of Team Leadership, Duncan realizes the leadership decision of taking action should take place in order to transform the American Public School System. In Internal Leadership Actions, Duncan thinks all school principals need to be trained to act like CEOs. They should possess the skills that are mentioned in the skills approach of leadership. Principals should have human and conceptual skills. For human skills, principals should be able to communicate well with other faculty and students. For conceptual skills, principals should be able to develop ideas and be able to look at what is best for the big picture of the school. According to Duncan, if the realm of business were to be combined with education it will greatly improve the overall performance and effectiveness of U.S. education. Each principal is the leader of their school. Duncan was quoted, "We have to treat them as such, and we have to train them as such.” Duncan acknowledges this will require action from all school districts in the U.S. and be a team effort.
In Hill’s Model of Team Leadership, Duncan realizes the leadership decision of taking action should take place in order to transform the American Public School System. In Internal Leadership Actions, Duncan thinks all school principals need to be trained to act like CEOs. They should possess the skills that are mentioned in the skills approach of leadership. Principals should have human and conceptual skills. For human skills, principals should be able to communicate well with other faculty and students. For conceptual skills, principals should be able to develop ideas and be able to look at what is best for the big picture of the school. According to Duncan, if the realm of business were to be combined with education it will greatly improve the overall performance and effectiveness of U.S. education. Each principal is the leader of their school. Duncan was quoted, "We have to treat them as such, and we have to train them as such.” Duncan acknowledges this will require action from all school districts in the U.S. and be a team effort.
Question: Do you think there is another leadership approach that would fit better for Duncan?
http://www.usnews.com/news/best-leaders/articles/2009/12/04/education-secretary-arne-duncan-says-school-principals-must-act-like-ceos
Posted by: Aaron Barton
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Posted by: Aaron Barton
I never knew that the United States was so low on the Education ranking! I think that the team leadership approach fits well in this situation. If these principles and faculty do not work together, they won’t get anywhere. Therefore, it is important for them to take action very soon. Because these principles need to be working together and coming up with new ways to improve the school system they are going to have to take task leadership actions in order to be on the same page. Having the ranking system is going to be a great way to see if there is team effectiveness. If the team is effective with their strategies they will be able to climb the list. Therefore, overall the team leadership approach works very well in this situation and it is easy to follow the model.
ReplyDelete--Posted by Devan Pritchett
I would agree that team leadership is very important in this situation. Everyone needs to be on the same page and the principals need to be "CEO-like". They need to make the decisions that are best for the school and for everyone involved (teachers, students, community, etc). However, there are a lot of things they still cannot due because of poor funding. Most schools, especially public schools, have very little funding and cannot do the things needed to increase their rankings. It is often hard to recruit teachers into poor areas, a. because it is located in a poor area and b. they do not have the money to pay for some teachers. Unless the government takes education seriously, we should continue to see a decline in our world ranking in education.
ReplyDeleteJason Svela