In the last week I came across an article that prompted my thinking about leadership in the learner-centered paradigm: From 7 Superintendents: What 2020 Taught Us About Leading. It’s a quick read… 📖 And don’t worry…you can extract meaning from the words regardless of your role in education…. Two (maybe three) principles underlying their actions […]
Archives for February 2021
#17 of 60: What is your preferred learning future? 🤔🤔🤔
Video Wednesday! 📽 Last month, the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), an international organization, published an interesting future-focused report: Back to the future of education: Four OECD Scenarios for Schooling. The OECD also published a companion short video describing the four scenarios–baseline and transformational–presented in the report. Take two minutes to review […]
#16 of 60: Learn, unlearn, relearn: How do we rethink leadership to meet the needs of learners and society? 🤔🤔🤔
#16 of 60: Learn, unlearn, relearn: How do we rethink leadership to meet the needs of learners and society? 🤔🤔🤔 In yesterday’s post we explored rethinking the role of teacher. In this post, you guessed it, we take a look at some work being done to rethink the role of leadership in human-centered environments. In […]
#15 of 60: Learn, unlearn, relearn: How do we rethink teaching to meet the needs of learners and society? 🤔🤔🤔
Late in 2020, we saw the release of the 2nd Edition of the Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Teaching. Couple of observations….👀 First, a human-centered thread is obvious. Instead of focusing solely on the technical requirements of teaching, we see important human-centered mindsets reflected in the Intrapersonal Domain (Need to Reflect) * Dedication to all […]
#14 of 60: What is flourishing and do our learning environments promote it? 🤔🤔🤔
I spent some time over the last few days re-reading the comments/interactions in all of the posts over the past two weeks. (Thank you for engaging in these important conversations! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻) I’m finding a theme of flourishing woven throughout the contributions, directly and indirectly. I’m curious what you think…. We read earlier (post #1) how […]
#13 of 60: How are advances in longevity and vitality changing the narrative of career? 🤔🤔🤔
Earlier in the #60daychallenge I referenced The Adaptation Advantage by Heather McGowen and Chris Shipley. One of my favorite components of the book are the charts 📊. Early on the authors share two contrasting charts representing the impact of longevity (and vitality) on our mental models of career, learning, education, retirement and the like. Take […]
#12 of 60: Is there value in young learners developing foresight skills? 🤔🤔🤔
Last week, I ran across an article originally published in October 2020. The title resonates with our work here:” Educator as futurist: Moving beyond “Preparing for the Future” to “Shaping the Future” This sentence below and the later question, in particular, reminded me to expand my thinking about planning for the future. It’s not just […]
#11 of 60: How is human-centered leadership different from the dominant way schools are led today? 🤔🤔🤔
In an earlier post, the question of first principles of learning was posed: What are the principles of learning on which we can build human-centered systems and organizations? A number of years ago, my colleague Lynn Fuini Hetten and I asked a related question regarding leadership: If the transformation of education requires a paradigm shift […]
#10 of 60: How might we embrace a mindset for foresight? 🤔🤔🤔
In October 2020, the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) delivered a report titled A Stitch in Time? Realising the value of futures and foresight. Foresight is the capacity to think strategically about the future. In the report, five building blocks are shared for organizations to begin embracing longview thinking more deeply: Broaden time […]
#9 of 60: What are the first principles of human-centered learning? 🤔🤔🤔
If we are talking about transforming K12 education to be more human-centered we are talking about a shift of mindsets and organizational structures. As Allan Cohen shared on a podcast, transformation is… “…a kind of change that actually let’s go of the past and creates something entirely new. As a practical matter, that means breaking […]