Collective Knowledge about Transactional/Transformational Leadership

Your Group's Assignment:  What are the characteristics of Transactional/Transformational Leadership that align with each of the School Improvement Categories: Instructional, Shared, Operational/Resource Management and with Interpersonal Relationships? 

Instructional Leadership

·        Constructive transactional and transformational leadership are both strong change agent styles.

·        Collaboration and communication are major components of the constructive transactional and transformational styles.

·        Coaching and facilitating is a transformational behavior

      Monitoring, evaluation, and having clear expectations are transactional behavior

Shared Leadership

            Intellectually stimulating and learning focused is transformational

                     Collaborative decision-making process and collaborative inquiry are constructive transactional and transformational      

           Monitoring action plans is constructive transactional 

Operational/Resource Management

•        Transformational leaders are growing people that maximize a school’s human resources

Interpersonal Relationships

•  Interpersonal relationships are embedded across all styles.