leadership
Leadership
Powering Lifelong Learning Relationships
We give lip service to the idea of lifelong learning but I don’t see an organization really executing against the idea. That’s about to change.
Leadership
Smart Cities: Early Observations
We’re more than 20 cities into this weekly series examining education in American cities--a few things are becoming clear. I launched the series because everybody is talking about innovation (inside and outside of education) but I don’t think we know much about where it happens or how it spreads--or why it doesn’t.
Leadership
10 Things New Grantmakers Should Know & Do
I recently met with a family foundation. I shared ten bits of advice for new grantmakers summarized here.
Personalized Learning
Ministers Learn About Improvement at Scale
An Education Leaders Briefing concluded the World Education Forum in London this week. Greg Butler from Microsoft (who helped my district go 1:1 in 1996) moderated the session that I participated in with Sir Michael Barber, Chief Education Advisor at Pearson, and Microsoft education lead Anthony Salcito.
Ed Policy
Chicago Appoints Jack Elsey Chief Innovations Officer
Jack J. Elsey Jr. joined Chicago Public Schools as Chief of Innovation and Incubation. Formerly Elsey was Chief Schools Officer for Detroit Rising College Preparatory Schools and Assistant Superintendent in the Detroit Public Schools.
Leadership
Good Work: Freedom and Virtue
Father Robert A. Sirico, author of Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy, argues that a free economy promotes charity, selflessness, and kindness. He argues that free-market capitalism is the best way to ensure individual success, broad prosperity, but also the path to a moral society. Sirico suggests we’ve explore alternatives to free markets and they kill individual freedom, dampen incentives for enterprise, and quash creativity and innovation.
Personalized Learning
Are You a Teacher-Leader?
Teachers are master problem-solvers. They learn quickly to adjust on the fly as they react boldly and deftly in a moment’s response, whether to students’ endless questions about how to and what if, to the numerous disruptions blaring from a PA system, or to adapting their lesson plans because the Internet is down…again. When it comes to their own classrooms, teachers do not hesitate to meet daily obstacles and challenges head-on. It’s their job, after all.
Personalized Learning
How Leaders Inspire Groups to Innovate
Success in today’s global marketplace demands innovation. The world has watched the likes of Jack Welch (General Electric), Steve Jobs (Apple), Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Bill George (Medtronic) as they inspired their businesses to innovate. Each possesses varying degrees of the key characteristics and leadership styles known to result in innovation. The same styles translate to innovation in education.
EdTech
ASCD, Pearson & Marzano Launch New Online Leadership Program
ASCD and Pearson announced today a partnership with Marzano Research Laboratory and Dr. Robert Marzano to develop the new, cloud-based Principal Compass™, a comprehensive online leadership program for school principals and leadership teams.
Leadership
Good Work: Enabling Others to Act
Give the folks you work with ownership by involving them in decision making, delegating authority as well as responsibility, and backing them up when they fail. They will work harder, stay longer, and make it better. Enable others to do good work.