leadership

Personalized Learning

4 Essential Competency-Based Education Commitments for HigherEd Leaders

If higher education institutions can remain focused on these core commitments, then competency-based education can make a substantive contribution to improving the quality of education, access for those not well served by traditional models, and building a closer relationship with employers and improved employability for graduates.

Leadership

Education Leadership Strategies, Mindsets and Tools for Back to School

By: Tiffany Della Vedova. As leaders, we must work to adapt our leadership mindset and tools to fit the new environment we have helped to establish. And, having set our GPS to 21st century learning, we must pack our bags with 21st century leadership tools as we embark on this year’s learning adventure.

Leadership

7 Leadership Competencies for Whole-System Change

There are leaders, and there are EdLeaders. Then there are leaders among EdLeaders--like Lyle Kirtman and Michael Fullan. This expert duo, applying decades of work in the field, recently came together to write and release a powerful guidebook for leading systemic (and sustainable) change. "Leadership: Key Competencies for Whole-System Change," published by Solution Tree.

Personalized Learning

Are You Ready to Be a Change-Agent for Agency?

It’s time that we let go and gave back our students’ agency to learn. It’s time that we gave up the controls, so that our students can learn how to drive their own learning lives, time that we took control of our own learning to help our kids.

Leadership

How School Districts Work

School districts have a theory of action but often can’t express it. Naming the theories in use is key to designing a system that serves a community well.

Leadership

Leading Public Schools: 10 Roles You Probably Didn’t Prepare For

After spending time with urban districts recently, we were reminded of the complexity of the work that superintendents are responsible for. In our recent paper, Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning we outlined 10 roles for today's EdLeaders. In this blog we share important emerging skills associated with these 10 roles.