Leadership at IST

4 Leadership at IST

What are the important values of leadership at IST?

• Integrity • Fairness • Consensus seeking • Democratic • Trust • High quality learning • Wellbeing of everyone

What is leadership at IST?

• IB Learner Profile attributes: o Caring o Knowledgeable o Principled o Open minded o Balanced o Reflective o Thinkers • Visionary • Purposeful and decisive • Organised • Interactive and engaging • Proactive and reactive

What does it look like? What does it sound like?

• Distributed • Shared leadership • Visible • Friendly/polite • Responsible • Modelling behaviours • Tough/resilient/assertive • Time-orientated • Consequential

How do we do this?

• Can I help you? • Good morning. How are you? • “Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.

Education is the premise of progress.” (Kofi

Annan) • “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” (Marie Curie) • “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” (Nelson

Mandela) • “I have not failed. I have just found 10 000 ways that won’t work.” (Thomas Edison)

• Learning walks • Taking cover lessons • Prep for the next academic year • Timetables • Calendar (basic and events) • Modelling the IB Learner Profile, IST core values and guiding statements, 4Rs • Collaborate regularly together • Being visible at whole school events