Manitoba School Leadership Framework
Leadership Dispositions
While Leadership Dispositions are often innate, they can be learned. They represent what the school leader possesses and draws on when carrying out their role and daily work. Leadership Dispositions are shaped by a leader's personal and professional experiences; they influence how a leader enacts the practices and behaviours identified within each leadership focus area.
For the purposes of this Framework, leadership dispositions are the values, beliefs, and attitudes demonstrated through the behaviours (verbal and non-verbal) of school leaders, as they interact with students, staff, families, colleagues, and the community (Wilson et al., 2020; Melton et al., 2010).
Leadership Dispositions
- Leaders believe all students can learn and reach their full potential.
- Leaders value a commitment to ethical principles, which are based on the core values of equity, inclusiveness, social justice, respect, honesty, and compassion.
- Leaders model optimism, confidence, humility, care, courage, adaptability, curiosity, self-awareness, self-regulation, and a commitment to life-long learning.
