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Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation

Seeing the vast capabilities and limitless potential in all learners

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This past week I ran across an article online titled Gifted and talented kids: How do you nurture a curious mind? It’s a fascinating read to learn what five outstanding young minds are accomplishing as a result of sustained curiosity and the support of caring adults. Yes, these are amazing young learners with great stories! While it’s exciting these learners have […]

What are you talking about?

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My colleague, Lynn Fuini-Hetten, and I recently chatted with Dr. Kevin Brown and Dr. Frank Alfaro, Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent, respectively, of the Alamo Heights Independent School District in Texas. We were discussing learner-centered leadership in AHISD for an episode of the upcoming podcast, Shift Your Paradigm: from school-centered to learner-centered. During our conversation, Kevin reflected on one […]

Learner-centered Leadership and Principles of Creative Learning

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I’ve been thinking about learner-centered leadership and tinkering with ideas by mixing proposed principles of learner-centered leadership with ideas from other areas. Most recently, I looked at learner-centered leadership and exponential times. In this post, I pose some questions and share thoughts about learner-centered leadership and the principles of creative learning as embraced by the MIT Media […]

Learner-centered Leadership in Exponential Times

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In this post I explore the intersection of learner-centered leadership and exponential times, looking to leaders outside of the field of education and placing this new learning in the context of an exponentially changing world. Learner-centered Leadership Recently, I wrote a post on learner-centered leadership in which I shared initial thoughts as my colleague and I dig deeper […]

Leading through the Learner-Centered Paradigm – Initial thoughts…

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Recently, my colleague, Lynn Fuini-Hetten, and I recorded the first episode of a new podcast series – Shift your paradigm: School-centered to learner centered. (We will be launching the podcast sometime around the end of April at ShiftYourParadigm.org.) In the first episode we chatted with Kelly Young, Executive Director of Education Reimagined, about the learner-centered […]

Edcamps and the Learner-Centered Paradigm

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Not too long ago, Lynn and I started recording for our new podcast on learner-centered leadership: Shift Your #Leadership Paradigm. We are excited to roll this out to you in late April! Following the terrific conversation we had with Education Reimagined‘s Executive Director, Kelly Young, I attended a three-day Edcamp Leadership Summit. I have to […]

Linear Advancements in an Exponential World

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This post poses a series of questions designed to increase awareness of exponential change and how it might be applied to the practice of educational leadership. I’m still developing my thinking in this area, but wanted to share questions I’ve been mulling over as I believe we must find ways to bridge the exponential world with our […]

What if we had more moonshot thinking in education?

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One of my favorite podcasts to listen to is Exponential Wisdom, hosted by Peter Diamandis and Dan Sullivan. In Episode 31, the hosts discuss moonshot thinking and strategies to get started. This got me thinking… What if moonshot thinking was a leadership competency? What would education be like if we had leaders at the federal, state, district, […]

#edleadership Blindspot: A Compelling Vision for Learning

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This post is cross-published at The K12 Leader. Download the full issue here. Our most significant work in education is to focus on the future, not only the future of learning itself but the US and world context of that future. What’s challenging about this task from a leadership perspective is that it is a […]