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Overview Topic 2: What is leadership in ECE?

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Welcome to Topic Two: What is leadership in ECE?

This section of the resource examines the need for Leaders in the ECE sector to understand the intricate relationship between leadership styles and one's underlying values to support and sustain effective, ethical, culturally responsive, accessible, and inclusive practices. This acknowledges the delicate balance between the 'heartwork' involved in ECE and the business acumen needed to successfully lead ECE organisations. “Leadership is developmental. Take your time and be patient with your own learning. Take extra care of the leaders and followers around you and also the leader in you. You can only get better and better. We need your leadership!” (Sullivan, 2023, p.143).

Topic Two will allow you to reflect on your leadership style and consider how your leadership traits and values inform and impact your leadership practices.

You will further consider the correlation between your values-based decisions and professional accountability and how reflective and reflexive practices can support you in growth and development as an ECE leader who honours rights-respecting, equitable, diverse and inclusive environments.     

The estimated time to complete Topic Two based on content, activities, and assessments is six and a half hours (6.5 hours or 390 minutes)