ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses content that leaders need to learn in order to be literate with respect to temporal leadership. This includes understanding several ways to think about and shape the way that time works in educational organizations. Educational leadership is in some ways future-oriented work. In the most basic sense, temporal leadership has to do with being able to read, understand and shape the history, present and future of people and institutions. Moreover, considered in glocal perspective, an understanding of history at local, national, and global levels—and an understanding of how all of these histories have been and continue to influence one another—allows a leader to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. Leaders seek to improve educational processes and outcomes by supporting, challenging and encouraging students, staff, faculty, the organization and organizational groups. Over the past 40 years, educational leadership scholars and practitioners have developed a vocabulary for talking about the future.
