Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation
I watched a really good webinar from David Burkus this past week: 3 Ways Leaders Kill Creativity (And How to Get It To Thrive). While I had several takeaways, I was particularly drawn to the second way leaders kill creativity: getting along. If … [Continue reading]
I love thinking about the future, bumping up against ideas and having conversations about how outlier ideas should or will impact our work in K12 education. As leaders, we need to be spending a good deal of our time looking beyond the immediate … [Continue reading]
I'm revisiting my highlights in Ron Richhart's Creating Culture of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools. A revisit to any great text surfaces new questions. One of my biggest questions drawn from the text is What kind … [Continue reading]
I shared a blog post a few months ago (Everybody shares, nobody reads) about our consumption of information from blogs and Twitter. I've since shared my frustrations with numerous colleagues about the large amount of surface conversation out there, … [Continue reading]
Education isn’t the most creative or innovative sector of society. Sure, we have classrooms within our system and schools around the country known for innovative practices. Generally, though, the field of education is firmly rooted in an industrial … [Continue reading]
This past week, I had the pleasure of speaking to this year's class of Keystone Technology Innovators (#kti2015). It was a pleasure to speak with such a group of dynamic and dedicated educators! A bonus: three teachers from Salisbury Township School … [Continue reading]
A few weeks ago I shared some thoughts on innovation in a post titled Curious about innovation in K12. Attending Edcamp Hershey today, my colleagues and I took advantage of the opportunity to engage in a conversation with educators about this topic … [Continue reading]
Earlier this summer, I crafted a post titled What's your leadership focus? In the post, I challenged us as leaders to not be driven solely by the urgent and the important, but to make room for the significant - work that will have a long-lasting … [Continue reading]
Do we have an educational leadership crisis? Are we developing educational leaders - in our schools and in our universities - for a world that was? Or for a world that is to be? In her TED talk, Roselinde Torres shares her research around the … [Continue reading]
Who doesn't love Sylvia Duckworth's sketchnotes (check them all out on Fickr)? Her latest is The Iceberg Illusion, with "success" being the iceberg. While our stakeholders (teachers, students, parents, community and fellow administrators) may be able … [Continue reading]