This course will help you put into practice the type of leadership emphasized in Leading for Understanding 1, an approach to leadership that models and supports learning at work for teachers and students in active and public ways.  In this course, you will learn about inquiry centered leadership and team building.  You will apply practical tools and strategies that again make use of the Dreams Framework.  These strategies and routines will build your own leadership expertise and engage colleagues in collaborative inquiry to improve learning and understanding.  Through interaction with an experienced coach and other innovative school leaders, you will learn how to use action research and reflect upon its results to inspire and support teachers, students and leaders as inquirers in your school.

Content

The core questions we will investigate during this course are:

• How can educational leaders use action research to support cycles of continual improvement in curriculum design, student learning and school organization?
• How can attention to group process enable and develop a culture of collaborative inquiry that promotes specific actions to increase thinking, learning and understanding for all members of their learning community?
• How can educational leaders use Teaching for Understanding ideas, Learning at Work ideas and WIDE World professional development strategies to carry out an action plan that develops the school as a learning organization?
  
• How can educational leaders further develop their own skills in leading for understanding?
  
• How can educational leaders develop global connections to enable their own understandings?