Educational Leadership

Educational leadership can be madness or it can make a contribution to improve our schools. It can be a frantic effort to fix everything or it can be concentration on a few important items. It can be a futile exercise of power or it can empower individuals to help themselves. In the face of dramatic social change, a troubled sea of governance conflict, and excessive demands being made on schools, it can be said that one who aspires to school leadership must either be mad or a supreme egotist.
Leadership Theories
Since educational leadership is extremely complex, simple models do not adequately explain the individual or the character of leadership. But here is a quick overview of some of the most prominent leadership theories:
One theory suggests that social evolution requires three forms of leadership:

• The formation of ideas.
• The articulation of ideas.
• The building of idea