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Western University

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2013

Core Leadership Capacities

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The Ontario Leadership Framework And Leadership Interactions In A Sustained Working Group In Ontario Education, Daniel Ballantyne Mar 2013

The Ontario Leadership Framework And Leadership Interactions In A Sustained Working Group In Ontario Education, Daniel Ballantyne

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This study investigated the prevalence of the five Core Leadership Capacities (CLCs) in the Ontario Leadership Framework (OLF) in the work of teachers and administrators charged with developing an integrated Grade 10 curriculum incorporating student use of emergent electronic and web-based technologies. Retrospective interviews were conducted with members of this group --known as the Futures Forum Project (FFP)-- to elucidate and explore their professional interactions for traces of the CLCs. The researcher concluded that the CLCs were not used as an intentional framework for leadership, but did detect traces of distributed leadership closely linked to exchange theories of power. These …