The School Leader as Manager

Blog Post #1

Effective school leadership consists of two equally significant pieces: leadership and management. To be an effective school leader and manager, there needs to be an awareness of flexibility in the role you play . An effective leader need to be able to look at the current situation and decide if it requires them to step into a leadership role or more of a manager role, and adjust as the situation changes. With that awareness in place, you will be able to create foundation with school management as well and focus on becoming the school leader.


School management consists of the day to day procedures and routines. Implementation, operational issues, transaction, and systems are a few examples of managerial task that occur in a school. If the management pieces aren’t in place the school and staff will not function efficiently when situations arise. School management is the foundation of a school and with that piece in place, administrators will be able to focus on school leadership and the “humanistic side of education, mediated through interpersonal interaction, institutional policies and practices and values such as optimism respect, trust and care” (Stoll, & Fink 1996) .