leadership
Leadership
Good Work: Night Climbing
Leadership is…establishing where a group of people should go, getting them lined up in that direction and committed to movement, and then energizing them to overcome the inevitable obstacles that they will encounter along the way.
Leadership
Good Work: Trustees For A Slice of America
My home town hides its poverty all too well. But a group of committed leader take ownership, and act like trustees.
Leadership
Good Work: Confidence on a Mission
Leadership is immensely difficult on the practical level, but simple emotionally—you must care, and care so deeply that you are not willing to accept present conditions.
Leadership
Good Work: Love and Hope
Reforms of the late 90s seem quaint compared to challenges that school districts face today. The fiscal crisis adds a whole new layer of challenge to American education leadership.
EdTech
Barbara Treacy: Director, EdTech Leaders Online
We interview Barbara Treacy, Director, EdTech Leaders Online about the future of digital learning and the progress of innovation in American public education.
Personalized Learning
Does Heroic Leadership Work?
Heroic leadership isn't sustainable, but getting to a high functioning decentralized system takes a hurricane or a hero.
Personalized Learning
Leadership by Any Means
Comments on Larry Cuban's two part series; big districts should consider non-traditional leaders.
EdTech
The Incentivized Principal
School turnaround gets knocked now and again. But in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, things seem to be going right.
EdTech
Paul Pastorek: It Takes a Mighty Effort to Reform
Rick Hess interviews Paul Pastorek, Lousiana's state schools chief after Lousiana comes up short in the second round of RttT.
EdTech
Yes, Learning is Rocket Science
BYU's Dean K. Richard Young says he's bothered by people who claim the science of learning isn't "rocket science." He makes a bold claim about leadership to make interoperability happen.