This paper offers a succinct review of my experience on the visit to two websites containing information on leadership. The two websites are The Wallace Foundation and Seven Sides of Educational Leadership.
The Wallace Foundation
The information contained on the website provides great insights to understanding elements of good leadership in schools. The site emphasizes the importance of good leadership to failing schools. The information provided on the site through various articles postulate that good leadership is not only essential to the institution but also to the success of the learners. The site can be utilized by leaders of schools to enhance their leadership skills and the success of the institution. Moreover, the site provides varied information on how to evaluate principals and the professional standards expected to ensure excellent leadership (The Wallace Foundation, 2016).
Seven Sides of Educational Leadership
The website is quite informative. The information is geared towards creating educational leaders who are holistic. The website sums up its goal and roles through a diagrammatic representation. The diagrammatic representation is inscribed with information that represents the skills that a good leader should possess. This information includes: inventor, sculptor, parent, gardener, hill walker, villager and house builder. The information provided on the website aims at transforming how different educational leaders have worked in the past. This transformation centers on changing personal metaphors to a more interconnected metaphor. It stresses on tools that can be utilized by educational leaders to promote institutional success and transformation. In addition to these, it provides tools for effective leadership. The website posits that if leaders apply these skills, they will lead to change in metaphors, theory and practice (Seven Sides of Educational Leadership, 2008).
References
Seven Sides of Educational Leadership, (2008). Changing Practice, Changes Theory, Changes Practice. Retrieved from http://sevensides.typepad.com/seven_sides_of_educationa/
The Wallace Foundation, (2016). School Leadership. Retrieved from http://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/school-leadership/pages/default.aspx?p=2
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