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= Leadership for Learning - Introduction =

[[Image:LfL_photo.jpg|thumb|300px]][http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/cce/initiatives/projects/leadership/index.html Leadership for Learning (LfL)] is a framework of ideas and principles originating in the international Carpe Vitam Leadership for Learning project co-ordinated at the University of Cambridge. The framework has been used for 10 years in different contexts, particularly as a programme for school leadership professional development.  

LfL is not something that can be implemented or done-to a school or imposed on a person. LfL provides a framework that creates an opportunity for change; for expanding leadership capacity in schools and improving the quality of learning.

= What is LfL? =

Leadership for learning is happening all around you.  

* Watch a teacher in action, and see if some or all of the 5 LfL principles can be identified.

[[Image:Critical_lense.jpg|thumb|150px|FIgure 5A.]]Let’s start by considering a few ideas about LfL, its 5 principles, and how we might observe and identify these in classrooms and schools.

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[[Image:LfL_lenses.png|thumb|300px|Figure 5B]]Let’s take our metaphor of the LfL lens a step further, and suggest that there are 5 different LfL lenses (spectacles) needed in order to ‘see’ all 5 LfL principles:

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[[Image:LfL_combined_lense.png|thumb|300px|Figure 5C]]Thinking ahead, you are probably already wondering why we don’t simply put all the LfL lenses together, in one! This way we could see all the 5 LfL principles at once in classrooms and schools.  

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Let’s try putting this idea of looking at classroom teaching and learning through an LfL lens into practice.

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You now understand that LfL is all about learning. It is about seeing the component parts that contribute to creating learning and leadership opportunities in classrooms, schools and communities.  

Practice using the LfL lenses when you are back in your own schools, or even when you are watching others in the act of teaching and learning.

This page was authored by Stephen Jull, drawing on collaborative work with Sue Swaffield and John MacBeath of the Centre for Commonwealth Education, University of Cambridge.