Encourage and nurture individual initiative . For community leadership to develop, leaders must protect and encourage the voices of participants who offer differing points of view. Build a learning organization . Deep changes require deep learning, and leaders must build teacher learning into the everyday fabric of school life. Take a balcony view .
Leaders immersed in incremental change often fail to step back and look at the big picture.
Deep change requires knowing what is happening, distancing one's ego from daily events, and honestly appraising the state of the organization. As much as parents and public want improved academic performance, they also expect schools to develop happy, socially well-adjusted, and moral human beings. Perhaps the greatest leadership challenge in accountability is keeping a strong focus on improvement without forgetting the rest of the agenda. Thomas Sergiovanni highlights this dilemma by dividing schools into two domains. The lifeworld consists of the values, beliefs, and purposes that knit the school community together and give significance to everyday activities.