Leadership for community building; changing how we think and act.

Many educators today are discussing new visions to transform their schools into communities. The idea is that schools should be communities of learners rather than organizations that turn out students as products (Furman and Starratt 2002; Sergiovanni 1994). But for schools to become communities of learners, a major upheaval in the way educators think about leadership needs to occur. In his literature review, Murphy (2001) suggested that educational leaders need new blueprints to become community builders who steward moral visions for school improvement. Since the field of educati