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Andy Hargreaves

Sustainable Leadership

Welcome to

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Seven principles of sustainable leadership1 Depth

2 Endurance

3 Breadth

4 Justice

It matters It lasts It spreads It does not

harm the surrounding environment

Continued…

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Seven principles of sustainable leadership5 Diversity

6 Resourcefulness

7 Conservation

It promotes diversity & cohesion

It conserves expenditure

It honours the

past in creating the future

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Principle 4: Justice

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment by finding ways to share knowledge and resources with neighboring schools and the local communities.

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Sustainability and Social Justice

do not steal your neighbor’s capacityuse multiple indicators of

accountabilityemphasize collective accountabilitycoach a less successful partner schoolmake a definable contribution to the

community your school is inpair with a school in a different social

or natural environmentcollaborate with your competitors

4. Justice

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Responsible leadership

Mutual relationships among the domainsof ethical responsibility

Starratt, 2005

4. Justice

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Principle 5: Diversity Sustainable

leadership promotes cohesive diversity and avoids aligned standardization of policy, curriculum, assessment, and staff development and training in teaching and learning. It fosters and learns from diversity and creates cohesion and networking among its richly varying components.

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Differences

You learn more from people who are different from you, than ones who are the same

Hargreaves & Fullan, 1998

5. Diversity

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Networked learning communities

• Share and transfer knowledge• Stimulate professional fulfilment &

motivation• Capitalize on positive diversity• Provide for lateral leadership• Are evidence-informed• Promote innovation• Give teachers voice• Personalize schools as learning

communities• Are flexible and resilient

Continued…5. Diversity

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Network risks

• Restricted to enthusiasts• Shared delusions• Self-indulgent• Limited scale• Unaccountable• Over-regulation• Over-participation

5. Diversity

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Strong networks have…

• Strong branding, definite products• Clear moral purpose• Clarity, focus, discipline• Evidence informed substance• Accessibility in real and chosen

time• Hacker ethic• Embedded in altered structures• Support from lateral leadership• PLCs as nodes

5. Diversity

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Networking and interaction

• Paired schools• University-school

partnerships• Internet

communities• Families of

schools• Collaborative

accountability• Professional

networks

5. Diversity

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The Long and Short of Sustainable Improvement

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The Long and Short of Change

Hargreaves and Fink’s Proposition

The urgency of targets is inversely related to the degree of power held by those responsible for implementing them.

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SHORT LONG

cynical,

opportunistic

evasive,

unaccountable

urgent,

confidence-boosting

enduring,

sustainable

–

+

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SHORT LONG

Government-imposed

short-term

achievement targets

UN Millenium Goals

shared targets,

quick “wins”

authentic transformations

In practices and beliefs

–

+

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Negative Longs

• Long-term targets, such as Millenium Goals, that are evasions of political and corporate responsibility

• Mission and vision building processes that do not survive the leaders who initiated them

• Long-range plans that are soon made obsolete by unanticipated events

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Negative Shorts

Targets that are

• Imposed upon the powerless• Do not engage those responsible

for reaching them• Are politically convenient and

arbitrary• Are imposed in cultures of

distrust and fear

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Positive Shorts

• Also demand changed behavior among the powerful

• Are collectively shared• Are inspired by cultures of trust

and hope• Build confidence to persevere

with longer term struggles

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Positive Longs

• Promote and depend on patience, discipline and perseverance

• Inspire people to see beyond the present

• Symbolically guide and articulate short-term measures

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Happiness

Comes from

• Choice, but not too much• Control over one’s own destiny• Achievement of purposes along

the way

Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis

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Sustainable Leadership

One of the most important and neglected aspects of leadership is leadership succession. Schools tend to focus on improving schools or remaking them anew rather than sustaining what has been created by past leaders. Similarly, leaders rarely think about how the improvements they make will survive their own departure. In this book, Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink examine what we know about making leadership last and offer seven p rinciples of sustainability. They provide an ov erview of the topic, a s ummary of research, examples of good practice, and guidelines for the future. This is a volume in The Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education, Andy Hargreaves, Consulting Editor.

• This landmark book focuses on the important (but neglected) topic of leadership succession in schools. • Offers a concise, practical, and easy-to-read guide for the busy professional. • Written for both aspiring and practicing leaders who must keep current in this dynamic f ield.

Andy Hargreaves is co-director of the International Centre for Educational Change at the University of Toronto, and professor of educational leadership and change at the University of Nottingham and the National College for School Leadership in England. Dr. Hargreaves consults widely in the United States, Europe, and Australia and is the author of numerous books including Learning to Change. Dean Fink is professor of education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

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Seven Principles of Sustainability • Depth – Learning and Integrity • Length – Endurance and Succession • Breadth – Distribution not Delegation • Justice – Others and Ourselves • Diversity – Complexity and Cohesion • Resourcefulness – Restraint and Renewal • Conservation – History and Legacy

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By Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink

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