leadership
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Does Heroic Leadership Work?
Heroic leadership isn't sustainable, but getting to a high functioning decentralized system takes a hurricane or a hero.
Leadership by Any Means
Comments on Larry Cuban's two part series; big districts should consider non-traditional leaders.
The Incentivized Principal
School turnaround gets knocked now and again. But in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, things seem to be going right.