WGU D016 LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET
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✔✔Appreciative Inquiry (AI) -✔✔focuses on finding the best in people and working
together to achieve a jointly constructed and shared purpose, vision, and goal.
Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny. AI is suggested to result in transformational
change only if it addresses problems of real concern of staff. Identifying the negative
may not be generational but it may still have a place in the overall AI and leadership
process.
✔✔the constructivist principle -✔✔this principle, is to know and understand an
organization as a human construction, as ever changing, and is 'how' one knows an
organization
✔✔Principle of simultaneity -✔✔the questions we ask and the changes we make are
not separate moments but are considered to be simultaneous.
✔✔Poetic Principle -✔✔we can choose how to perceive situations (glass half
full)organization is much like an emerging book
✔✔Anticipatory principle -✔✔Positive questions and reflections stem from positive
anticipation of the future. (Step 2 of AI)
✔✔Positive Principle (AI) -✔✔Positive affect, caring, shared meaning, and purpose fuel
change efforts.
✔✔Empirical-Rational -✔✔leaders do not have to be coercive; they simply present the
necessary information regarding the desired change
✔✔Normative-Re-educative -✔✔Group activities are initiated to bring about changes in
the norms of the group through changes in attitudes, values, skills, and relationships.
, This strategy facilitates the desired change being made by the group without the leader
applying strong pressure.
✔✔Power-coercive strategy -✔✔managing strategy that assumes that people will listen
to authority figures & do as they are told to do.
*example- only choosing the path that a manager wants you to follow
✔✔eight elements essential for leading sustainable innovation efforts -✔✔Element 1:
Public Service with a Moral Purpose
Element 2: Commitment to Changing Context at All Levels
Element 3: Lateral Capacity Building through Networks
Element 4: Intelligent Accountability and Vertical Relationships
Element 5: Deep Learning
Element 6: Dual Commitments to Short-term and Long-term Results
Element 7: Cyclical Energizing
Element 8: The Long Lever of Leadership
✔✔educational leadership values -✔✔Common values might include, but are not limited
to, honesty, transparency, flexibility, collaboration, perseverance, and respect for
diversity. Critical connections for future educational leaders should tie in to a willingness
to work as a team in a shared model of leadership. Transparency and honesty build
trust, so members of the organization understand why decisions are made and how
they connect to the overall mission and vision. Flexibility as change is a constant in
education through technology evolutions and new learning theories to support required
inclusive environments. The essence of perseverance is understanding that educational
leadership is about being able to overcome challenges and problems that are unique to
each individual student.
✔✔3 primary reasons ethics are important to education -✔✔1. require reflection on
values that are at the core of a given human enterprise
2.disciplined way of thinking
3.ethical approach answers the question of why
✔✔National Education Leadership Preparation (NELP) recognition standards -✔✔1.
Mission, Vision, and Improvement
2. Ethics and Professional Norms
3. Equity and Cultural Responsiveness
4. Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
5. Community of Care and Support for Students
6. Professional Capacity of School Personnel
7. Professional Community for Teachers and Staff
8. Meaningful Engagement of Families and Community 9. Operations and Management
10. School Improvement
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET
A+
✔✔Appreciative Inquiry (AI) -✔✔focuses on finding the best in people and working
together to achieve a jointly constructed and shared purpose, vision, and goal.
Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny. AI is suggested to result in transformational
change only if it addresses problems of real concern of staff. Identifying the negative
may not be generational but it may still have a place in the overall AI and leadership
process.
✔✔the constructivist principle -✔✔this principle, is to know and understand an
organization as a human construction, as ever changing, and is 'how' one knows an
organization
✔✔Principle of simultaneity -✔✔the questions we ask and the changes we make are
not separate moments but are considered to be simultaneous.
✔✔Poetic Principle -✔✔we can choose how to perceive situations (glass half
full)organization is much like an emerging book
✔✔Anticipatory principle -✔✔Positive questions and reflections stem from positive
anticipation of the future. (Step 2 of AI)
✔✔Positive Principle (AI) -✔✔Positive affect, caring, shared meaning, and purpose fuel
change efforts.
✔✔Empirical-Rational -✔✔leaders do not have to be coercive; they simply present the
necessary information regarding the desired change
✔✔Normative-Re-educative -✔✔Group activities are initiated to bring about changes in
the norms of the group through changes in attitudes, values, skills, and relationships.
, This strategy facilitates the desired change being made by the group without the leader
applying strong pressure.
✔✔Power-coercive strategy -✔✔managing strategy that assumes that people will listen
to authority figures & do as they are told to do.
*example- only choosing the path that a manager wants you to follow
✔✔eight elements essential for leading sustainable innovation efforts -✔✔Element 1:
Public Service with a Moral Purpose
Element 2: Commitment to Changing Context at All Levels
Element 3: Lateral Capacity Building through Networks
Element 4: Intelligent Accountability and Vertical Relationships
Element 5: Deep Learning
Element 6: Dual Commitments to Short-term and Long-term Results
Element 7: Cyclical Energizing
Element 8: The Long Lever of Leadership
✔✔educational leadership values -✔✔Common values might include, but are not limited
to, honesty, transparency, flexibility, collaboration, perseverance, and respect for
diversity. Critical connections for future educational leaders should tie in to a willingness
to work as a team in a shared model of leadership. Transparency and honesty build
trust, so members of the organization understand why decisions are made and how
they connect to the overall mission and vision. Flexibility as change is a constant in
education through technology evolutions and new learning theories to support required
inclusive environments. The essence of perseverance is understanding that educational
leadership is about being able to overcome challenges and problems that are unique to
each individual student.
✔✔3 primary reasons ethics are important to education -✔✔1. require reflection on
values that are at the core of a given human enterprise
2.disciplined way of thinking
3.ethical approach answers the question of why
✔✔National Education Leadership Preparation (NELP) recognition standards -✔✔1.
Mission, Vision, and Improvement
2. Ethics and Professional Norms
3. Equity and Cultural Responsiveness
4. Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
5. Community of Care and Support for Students
6. Professional Capacity of School Personnel
7. Professional Community for Teachers and Staff
8. Meaningful Engagement of Families and Community 9. Operations and Management
10. School Improvement
