The NEA Leadership Competency Framework was developed by educators to provide a tool to define and assess current leadership skills, knowledge, and abilities of education leaders.
History
Over the course of the 2012-2013 year, NEA engaged leaders across the Association to discuss the current and desired future state of NEA leadership development. NEA also established a leadership development advisory team, consisting of member and staff-leaders to review member input and ideas and to develop a common vision for what NEA leaders should know and be able to do. Grounded in NEA’s strategic framework, created collaboratively, and refined through a rigorous review process, NEA’s leadership competencies were born.
An Introduction to the Competencies
Competency Domains
The six competencies are:
- Advocacy: Advances the cause of public education through advocacy for students including addressing racial and social justice in education and how it benefits our students and members’ professional needs and rights.
- Communication: Build and execute an integrated communications strategy that drives the mission, vision, core values and strategic goals of the association.
- Governance and Leadership: Sets the mission and establishes and monitors strategies necessary for relevant and thriving associations while empowering, motivating, and fostering a pipeline of diverse leaders.
- Leading Our Professions: Advocates for professional learning, professional quality and social diversity inside our professions and promotes our union’s role in advancing education transformation, student learning, and equitable access to opportunities.
- Organizing: Mobilizes and engages members and leaders to support internal and external relationships and association capacity to: recruit, retain and identify diverse groups of members and leaders; and advance strategic priorities at the national, state, and local levels.
- Strategy and Fiscal Health: Use association resources responsibly to accomplish the goals of the association through strategic thinking, effective financial management and understanding of fiduciary responsibilities.
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Downloads
- NEA Leadership Development Guide Planning Tool.pdf
- Leading During a Crisis - Using Strategy to Guide Your Decisions.pdf
- Leadership Development Express Spring-Summer 2020
- NEA Leadership Competency Guide
- Leadership Training Considerations: Advocacy
- Leadership Training Considerations: Strategy and Fiscal Health
- Leadership Training Case Study: Wisconsin Education Association Council
- Leadership Training Considerations: Organizing
- Leadership Training Considerations: Communication
- Leadership Training Considerations: Governance and Leadership
- Leadership Training Considerations: Leading Our Profession
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