I have been working my way through Kegan and Lahey’s Immunity to Change and think it is an important construct for us school leaders to wrap our collective heads around. Plateaus of Mental Complexity (Kegan and Lahey, 2009. Immunity to Change. p.16.) Mental complexity can change over the course of the lifespan and generally gets […]
PETE & C 2011
I sometimes wonder whether the traditional conference format – presenter at the front of the room dishing out loads of information to eager, yet passive, session attendees – works in this day in age. While I certainly struggle in most of these kinds of presentations, I was able to gather some useful information related to […]
ISTE 2011 Presentation
The ISTE Conference, being held in Philadelphia this year, has gone live with their program database. I’ll be involved in a roundtable presentation of the research from my dissertation. Title: Education in the 21st Century: A New Frame of Leadership Description: This research proposes strategies for school leaders to acquire new knowledge, skills, and dispositions […]
iSchool – New York City
A blog post at the Innovative Educator was an inspiring read. It made me want to learn more about the iSchool project. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c4okPYD8rE] The last sentence from the post:”They (teachers and students) truly must believe that this way of non-traditional teaching is the best possible prescription for students’ achievement and success.” In the design of […]
Changing what we value…
…is not easy. Especially if we’ve valued it most of our lives. It’s why, I believe, education is so hard to change. Change requires us to alter our values and beliefs. And people, especially educators, are not willing to do that when it comes to teaching and learning. Today, I read a blog post (Open […]
A Vision of Teachers for Today and Beyond
via Quantum Progress I think this short video from Dan Meyer contains so much to help us think about redefining a vision for connected teaching in the 21st century. Some questions worth asking: Do we have leaders ready and able to take us into the future? Are the ideas included in Dan’s video even on […]
The Innovation Struggle
Innovation was the focus of the latest Educon 2.3 conference. Since I tend to look at everything through the lens of leadership, I was wondering where leadership and innovation overlap. One of the (what seemed to be) most re-tweeted tweets came from Bill Ferriter: “Note to principals: If you want me to innovate, you’ve got […]
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