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Virtuous Educational Leadership: Doing the Right work the Right Way
with Viviane Robinson

The development of educational leaders requires more than an emphasis on knowledge and skills, because leaders can be knowledgeable and skilful, and still do things for the wrong reasons and from the wrong motives. In this webinar, Viviane Robinson takes a more holistic approach by focusing on the development of leadership character through cultivation of relevant virtues. Virtues are desirable dispositions, and are inclusive of leaders’ knowledge, skills, reasoning and motivations. She focuses on those particular virtues that are critical for excellence in educational leadership.

This webinar series is based on Viviane’s latest book “Virtuous Educational Leadership: Doing the Right Work the Right Way" (Corwin, 2023).  Each webinar is highly interactive, practical, and focused on a few key questions.

• What is the right work of educational leadership?
• How do virtues help leaders do that work in the right way?
• What is the difference between values, and virtues and why are the latter so much more practical?
• Which virtues are particularly relevant to educational leadership?
• How can they be learned?

What will be learned?

By the end of the series, participants will not only understand the nature and importance of virtues but have a clear sense of how to build more virtuous leadership in themselves and their teams.

Who will benefit?

Any educator who seeks to become a more excellent leader, regardless of their formal position or their leadership context, will benefit from the series. Therefore, system, senior, middle and teacher leaders are welcome as are teachers who wish to develop as leaders.

Viviane Robinson

Viviane Robinson is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and Visiting Professor at University College London. She has devoted her career to investigating and developing the capabilities leaders need to work productively with their teachers to improve the wellbeing and achievement of their students.

In her latest book “Virtuous Educational Leadership: Doing the Right Work the Right Way” (Corwin Press, 2023) Viviane extends her previous work on student-centred leadership (“Student-Centered Leadership, Jossey Bass, 2011) and school improvement (Reduce Change to Increase Improvement Corwin, 2018) by discussing those aspects of leadership character which are required for excellent performance of the role.

In 2011, she was made a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association for sustained excellence in educational research.  In 2017 she was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and awarded its Mason Durie Medal in recognition of the international impact of her leadership research.