I’m listening to Susan Scott’s recent book, Fierce Leadership. She has an enjoyable writing style. One of her analogies was something to the effect of – I’m paraphrasing – Are your best leadership practices like eating peas with a knife? Then maybe you need to rethink those practices. I can see I’m going to enjoy listening to this book. “Best practices” is quite the buzzword in education – whether it be teaching, learning or leading. Too often, though, they are outdated. They may have been “best” years ago, but our spoon has morphed into a knife and some of us haven’t realized it yet! Personally, though, can we change the peas to a bowl of ice cream or something? Much more appetizing! And the analogy still works.
I've retired from public education after 34 years, most recently as Superintendent. In addition to blogging at WorkingAtTheEdge.org, I co-host two podcasts at TLTalkRadio.org and ShiftYourParadigm.org. Learn more at https://workingattheedge.org/about/.
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