Is it time to break the narrative of success that we communicate to our young people and parents? Not that the old narrative of get good grades, get into a good college, get good grades, get a fine paying job, stay there for life won’t still work for some, but are we living in a […]
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#34 of 60: Will we go back to “normal,” or will we “imagine another world”? 🤔
After lockdowns, quarantine and virtual schooling, the focus of educators and communities has been returning to “normal.” I’ve seen many conversations focused on “normal,” as I’m sure you have. And do we really want to return to a system with so many anomalies laid bare: equity, digital equity, agency in the wrong places, standardization, standardized […]
#30 of 60: How might we use film as a spark for transformation? 🤔
In October 2020, several organizations partnered to present an online film festival, This is Our Chance film festival. Spread over a period of three weeks, with each week having a unique focus, full length and short films (mostly documentaries) were curated and followed up with rich online conversations and gatherings. While the festival is “over,” […]
#25 of 60: How can our education systems and operating habits best enable next generation learning, rather than obstruct and diminish it? 🤔
That’s the question at the foundation of a new research-based framework released by Next Generation Learning Challenges earlier this month. I love the way they have approached this inquiry, and the framework outcome (with its accompanying literature review) has the potential to move us more rapidly toward a tipping point in school transformation. The text […]
#22 of 60: Are we asking the right kinds of questions?🤔
In my pursuit of the idea of flourishing in education, I ran across a recent book (2020) written by educational philosopher Kristján Kristjánsson (Flourishing as the Aim of Education). It seems quite relevant for our work here, so I will be sure to share more in the near future. At the very outset…in the Preface….Kristjánsson […]
#18 of 60: What two actions can you take today to advance your leadership to be more human-centered? 🤔🤔🤔
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 […]
#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 […]
#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 […]
Valuing Strategic Foresight in K12
I love thinking about the future, particularly how it will impact how we learn. I love thinking up possible scenarios in the K12 space that might exist as a result of new technologies, and have previously written about how strategic foresight should be considered a new leadership competency. Because of this passion, I was drawn […]
Distinguishing Leadership
When you hear the word leadership, what associations do you make? What is leadership? What is leadership not? This past year, I had the opportunity to participate in a Learning Lab hosted by Education Reimagined. Facilitated by Allan Cohen, the group of dozens of educators from around the country arrived at the following artifact distinguishing leadership: Leadership is […]
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