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WICS: A Model of Positive Educational Leadership Comprising Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized

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Who are the people who become positive educational leaders? This essay presents WICS as a model of positive educational leadership. WICS stands for wisdom, intelligence, creativity, synthesized. Each of these elements is asserted to constitute one of the elements of educational leadership. Regrettably, our society is organized around a closed system of selection and talent development that emphasizes intelligence in a narrowly defined way that sometimes ignores its synthesis with creativity and wisdom.

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Sternberg, R.J. WICS: A Model of Positive Educational Leadership Comprising Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized. Educ Psychol Rev 17, 191–262 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-005-5617-2

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