Mission of the Centre
Established in 1985 within the Department of Educational Administration
at OISE, the Centre
for Leadership Development (formerly the Centre for Principal Development)
specializes in
research, graduate instruction, preservice and inservice education
related to educational
leadership. Leadership and school reform are the enduring themes of
interest to Centre staff.
The Centre offers both practitioners and graduate students special
opportunities to pursue
practical and research interests relating to leadership. The Centre
also consults with
organizations on matter of leadership and school reform.
Recently, the CLD has formed a partnership with the University of Buffalo
(with Stephen
Jacobson) to become, as well, the University Council for Educational
Administration –
sponsored Centre for School Leadership. The purposes for the cross-national
centre is to:
Provide a locus for research about key aspects of school leadership. While
not an
exclusive focus, a major priority of the Centre is to better
understand the implications for
school leadership of contexts characterized by economic, racial/ethnic,
and cultural
diversity;
Foster collaborative forms of research about school leadership;
Provide regular syntheses about the state of the art of the field;
Disseminate information about the state of the art to both the research
and practitioner
communities;
Develop and implement educational opportunities for school leaders to become
more
familiar with the practical implications of the research for
their own practice;
To provide advice for policy makers embarking on initiatives with implications
for school
leaders.