Becoming a Dynamic Leader in Your Teaching Profession

Dynamic Leadership

Description of Leadership

Leadership is the ability to raise your team’s morale and transform them into collaborative problem solvers, distributing leadership skills to empower staff to lead their teams toward district goals while defining and displaying moral values to build trust, inspire others, and create meaning. 

Three Leadership Models

• Distributed
• Moral
• Transformational

Leadership Table

Distributed Leadership

Positive	Negative
Increases leadership capacity, autonomy, and accountability within the school	Takes time, resources, and coaching.
Empower staff to lead their teams toward district goals	Difficult to coordinate
Enables staff to reflect, develop, and grow to work through any mistakes.	Accountability issues.

Moral Leadership

Positive	Negative
Builds trust, inspires others, and creates meaning.	Formal authority is easier to earn than moral authority.
Greater impact with trust when staff respects your behavior rather than your title.	Leadership burden to feel the pressure of being perfect
Staff sees the person you are and not just the person you were hired to be.	Disagreement between what constitutes “Moral” behavior.

Transformational Leadership

Positive	Negative
Gives leaders the ability to build team-moral	Staff can become dependent on leaders
Emphasizes collaboration and shared vision	Resistance from staff without a shared vision
Creates change through influence rather than authority.	Changes can take a long time.
Focus on professional growth through professional development and collaboration.
Allows transparency and constructive feedback.

Conclusion

Although it may seem that good leadership requires one of the three models, great leaders can incorporate Distributed, Moral, and Transformational leadership. There are always negative aspects to leadership, but good leaders consistently inspire and motivate others toward shared goals, spread leadership responsibilities across the organization, and use moral authority to build trust, inspire others, create meaning, and help people imagine a different and better future (Chrein, 2024). 

References: 

Chrein, L. (2024, August 12). Moral Leadership Framework |The HOW Institute for Society. The HOW Institute for Society. http://thehowinstitute.org/

Ugochukwu, C. (2024). Transformational Leadership Style: How to Inspire and Motivate [Review of Transformational Leadership Style: How to Inspire and Motivate]. Simply Psychology. http://www.simplypsychology.org

Solly , B. (2018). Distributive Leadership Explained [Review of Distributive Leadership Explained]. SecEd, 1–6. http://www.sec-ed.co.uk/content/best-practice/distributed-leadership-explained/