Leadership
Content that enables educators, edleaders, organizations and families to increase capacity, apply a growth mindset and implement what’s next in learning on behalf of those entrusted to them.
Take A Judo Lesson, Leverage Trends To Make An Impact
Against the backdrop of black swan events, broken politics, and the increasing priority of initiative, here is a recap of relevant trends and judo instructions for impact investors and "edupreneurs" interested in leveraging some of those trends.
EdLeaders as Lead Communicators
In a recent brief, an important role for leaders suggests that principals leading transformational efforts should be the “lead communicators.” And that empowered principals can be assets for public engagement in other settings as well.
The Primacy of Relationships
Powerful tools can help us know our students better; they can help teachers connect them with powerful experiences. But it's leaders that create the context--from classroom to city--for life-shaping relationships.
Growing Leaders, Growing Capacity: Discovery Education’s Digital Leader Corps
By: Karen Beerer. This digital transformation represents a tremendous paradigm shift for school systems. In many cases, school administrators are seeking to build the capacity of teacher-leaders to support this innovative change movement. In response to this growing need Discovery Education created the Digital Leader Corps.
How To Prep For (and Rock) SXSWedu
By: Eric Nentrup. Headed to SXSWedu? Here's what you need to do before you land in Austin to prep for and rock SXSWedu 2015.
Calling All Principals & EdLeaders!
Announcing our latest project with Hewlett Foundation, 'Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning' to address how leadership preparation and development must evolve to better equip leaders to create and support Deeper Learning environments.
Living Your Future Is An Authentic Process
By: Elliot Washor. How a trip to Nashville Big Picture reinforced how powerful GenDIY can be if they have schools that entwine community and family around the student learning experience.
Innovation & Improvement Takes a Sustained Push
We have a great chance to boost achievement and completion rates but it takes sustained leadership. There has been uptick in talented and committed state and district leaders being fired or leaving under duress.
Ready For Scale? Host A City Competition
If your school or program has had some success in one or two cities and you're benefiting from (rather than fighting) trends, it may be time to consider a city competition. Rather than writing more proposals, wouldn't it be great to have other people sending you proposals?
Broad Suspends Prize and Personalized Learning
As reported by the New York Times, the Broad Foundation has suspended the $1 million Broad Prize for Urban Education stating, “It had become more difficult to identify school districts that were pushing test scores or graduation rates up.”