Creativity and School leadership. Definition elements and key issues

ENTER STUDY DAYS, PLOVDIVIntroduction to parallel session

N°3M.O.Nouvelot, AgroSup, Dijon

Leadership= animation= pass= steering of interactions systems

Cooperation Identification, allocation, coordination, use of resources

Coherent guidelines

Recommandations OCDE, UE « School effectiveness »

Accountability. Self evaluation

Accepts / challenges / synthesizesExisting way of doing

InvolvementEmpowerment

Management of change

School strategic and development plan

Development of skills and competences

Headteacher ‘ s role is evolving towards a more systemic approach of the job, in order to empower the school and to change it into a learning organisation, monitoring more than running

« Monitoring by sense making  »

The « distributed leadership » is not a practice clearly defined. Management staff are not enough trained for and this activity is not enough supported and and estimated, (OCDE, Pour 2008).

Creativity Organisation

Leadership

Several styles of creativity- « adapter » within the school system- « innovator » prêt à s’écarter de la norme

Need to combine the both profile in a steering group

Several approaches of what is an organisation, each valid but incompatibles within them (Maggi)

- a predetermined system, a « box ». Individuals are power less

- a system built by interactions between individuals- a process of actions and decisions

Tension between « creativity » and « control » in a bureaucratic organisation

Need to find a balance between risking and controlling.

Idem between the right side of human brain (empathy) and the left side ( logic, rationality).

Need to make the both working!

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