Anything that is dangerous to the status quo.
If you’re finding it difficult to get your leader(s) to buy into the change you feel is necessary, think about approaching things from this angle: It’s up to each of us to lead our leaders You’ve got to speak up to lead up Before you lead up, you’ve got to team up. Trickle-Up Leadership | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.
Part II of leading up. If you want your leader to ‘get you’, try this approach: Prepare Open gently Initiate Summarise Establish next steps. Managing Up When You’re Down: The Power of POISE.
This guy is NZ’s own John Dewey; a visionary well ahead of his time. He came up twice during the #elsnz13 keynotes, and here’s a nice summary of his impact on education, written by UNESCO. Might be time to see whether we’re living up to his vision. http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/beebye.PDF
Here’s the collection of books drawn from all keynotes during #elsnz13. A pretty good place to start for leadership and school transformation. Goodreads | Mosborne01s bookshelf: emerging-leaders-summit-2013 showing 1-14 of 14 sorted by: date added.
Here’s the sequel to Caine’s Arcade that @gumdigger talked about. The Imagination Foundation. Sire Ken Robinson: if we can tap into children’s natural creativity, we will transform the world for our children and ourselves. Caine’s Arcade 2: From a Movie to a Movement – YouTube.
Useful reflection on whether we’re living up to our own high standards. “Our actions put the lie to our school mission statements that state that we’re about creating “self-motivated, life-long learners” “The fiction of most school mission statements | Dangerously Irrelevant” http://feedly.com/k/19w9jxO
Reminder of how fluid, context-based and counter-intuitive human intelligence can be. “Eight Ways of Looking at Intelligence | MindShift” http://feedly.com/k/106nDtT
Feedback (in all its forms) is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet in education. Here are “20 Tips To Do It Right” http://feedly.com/k/19wb3am
Leading Learning 