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Developing Principled Educational Leaders Elevator Speech • Developing Principled Educational Leaders for P-12 Schools is the mission of The Citadel’s Professional Education Unit. • Our goal is to develop leaders into knowledgeable, reflective, and ethical professionals committed to ensuring that all students succeed in a learner-centered environment. What do we mean by a principled educational leader? • Possessing the necessary knowledge and skills of an educational leader does not ensure that those skills and that knowledge will be used for principled or moral purposes. • (A surgeon’s skill can be used to kill as well as cure.) As Michael Fullan suggests • Principled leadership has a spiritual dimension. • “Principled behavior [is] connected to something greater than ourselves [and] relates to human and social development.” The leader as a heroic, solitary, “rugged individual” who saves the day through larger than life activities is NOT what we are about. The Citadel’s principled educational leader is the quiet leader who – • Through careful, thoughtful, and practical efforts – makes a difference in the lives of their students, in the places where they work, and in the larger community of which they are a part. “Quiet leadership is what moves and changes the world.” The principled educational leader is the quiet leader who – • knows her inner spirit – • acts carefully, • thoughtfully, and • persistently • to improve the educational environment. This vision of the “principled educational leader resonates with what Jim Collins (Good to Great) refers to as Level Five Leadership. Level 5 leaders are – • Often “self effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy,” • They are more like Lincoln or Socrates than Patton or Caesar. At The Citadel, our goal is – • To develop principled educational leaders who weave knowledge, reflection, and ethics together to create a powerful, learner-centered community.