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The Balanced Leadership Framework®: Connecting Vision with Action

 
 
Product Description  

  		This handbook describes the components of McREL's Balanced Leadership Framework®, which arranges the 21 responsibilities of effective leaders that McREL identified in its meta-analysis of research on leadership (published through ASCD as School Leadership that Works) into three key components:
  • Focus of leadership (i.e., the areas a principal targets for school improvement efforts)
  • Building purposeful community (i.e., helping the school community coalesce around clear goals)
  • Magnitude of change (i.e., understanding the implications of change efforts for stakeholders and adjusting leadership behaviors accordingly)
Authors  Tim Waters, Ed.D., and Greg Cameron, M.A.
Target Audience  School leaders
Ways to Use this Product  The Balanced Leadership Framework can serve as a stand-alone resource for professional development tool or as a supplement to a McREL Balanced Leadership Consortium.
Key Ideas  
The Framework describes the concept of "balanced leadership." Authors Tim Waters and Greg Cameron note that "balancing when and how to maintain the status quo with when and how to challenge it is often the difference between effective and ineffective leadership."
How to Get this Product  The Balanced Leadership Framework is available as a free pdf download
or for purchase.

Cost:
  • $10 each for one to nine copies
  • $5 each for 10 or more copies

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APA Citation  Waters, T., Cameron, G. (2007). The balanced leadership framework: Connecting vision with action. Denver, CO: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning.
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