Table 1 Unified model of effective leader practices
From: Teaching during COVID-19: reflections of early-career science teachers
Domain | Leader Practices (Hitt & Tucker, 2016) | Operationalization of Technology Leader Practices During COVID-19 (adapted from Dexter et al., 2016) |
|---|---|---|
Establishing and conveying the vision | ● Creating, articulating, and stewarding shared mission and vision ● Implementing vision by setting goals and performance expectations ● Modeling aspirational and ethical practices ● Communicating broadly the state of the vision ● Promoting use of data for continual improvement ● Tending to external accountability | ● Identifying vision for online and hybrid instruction during COVID-19 ● Setting goals and performance expectations related to the use of technology ● Modeling use of technology ● Promoting the use of data to improve technology-based instruction |
Facilitating a high-quality learning experience for students | ● Maintaining safety and orderliness ● Personalizing the environment to reflect students’ backgrounds ● Developing and monitoring curricular program ● Developing and monitoring instructional program ● Developing and monitoring assessment program | ● Utilizing technology to promote student engagement while learning online ● Maintaining safe and organized online learning settings ● Developing and monitoring use of technology |
Building professional capacity | ● Selecting for the right fit ● Providing individualized consideration ● Building trusting relationships ● Providing opportunities to learn for whole faculty, including leader(s) ● Supporting, buffering, and recognizing staff ● Engendering responsibility for promoting learning ● Creating communities of practice | ● Providing technology-focused professional learning opportunities for faculty and staff ● Supporting and recognizing exemplary uses of technology |
Creating a supportive organization for learning | ● Acquiring and allocating resources strategically for mission and vision ● Considering context to maximize organizational functioning ● Building collaborative processes for decision making ● Sharing and distributing leadership ● Tending to and building on diversity ● Maintaining ambitious and high expectations and standards ● Strengthening and optimizing school culture | ● Acquiring and allocating technology resources to teachers and students ● Attending to equity in technology access ● Distributing technology-related leadership among faculty and staff ● Tending to and building on teachers’ diversity of experiences with technology ● Maintaining high expectations for technology integration ● Supporting teachers in collaboration focused on technology |
Connecting with external partners | ● Building productive relationships with families and external partners in the community ● Engaging families and community in collaborative processes to strengthen student learning ● Anchoring schools in the community | ● Utilizing technology to build relationships with families and the community ● Engaging families in collaborative processes to strengthen student learning via technology |