It really is a simple question, isn’t it? Are we ready? Are our schools, teachers, administrators truly ready to stop talking about teaching and learning in the 21st century and instead, start actually doing IT? I have been thinking about this quite a bit recently, and an email from a colleague prompted me to revisit [...]
Last week I attended the “Meaningful Faculty Evaluation” workshop given by ISM in Philadelphia. For those of you who are not familiar with MFE, it is a process of engaging faculty through conversations and personal growth that is intended to strip away the focus and obsession with weaknesses and focus on what teachers are good [...]
Last spring I worked on a weekly series called “Monday Morning Meditation” where I would try to connect some thoughts, ideas and perspectives about leadership to the teachings of Zen. It is my hope that by devoting some time to the complex and very human interactions associated with leadership, we can find new ways to [...]
This presentation was done on December 6th, 2008 at The Association of Boarding Schools conference in Baltimore, MD. We had a great group of 12 independent school administrators and teachers. Thanks to those who came and enjoy!
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Leadership in American schools is becoming an increasingly difficult concept to define. Many educational scholars and policy makers agree that the current role of a school leader, both in the building and district or school wide, insufficiently meets the needs of American education for the 21st century. In an article by Lynn Olson, New Thinking [...]
Master Zide Hui said:
In general, when people are sincere and headed in the right direction, they can still be employed even if they are dull. If they are flatterers with ulterior motives, they are ultimately harmful even if they are smart.
On the whole, if their psychological orientation is not correct, people are unworthy of [...]
The technology landscape keeps changing and anyone working in schools over the past several years can tell you that. When I was hired as the CIO at my current school in 2002, using terms like podcasting, blogging and wikis were words very few faculty members would have recognized. Six years later, many of Worcester Academy’s [...]
Caotang said to Shantang:
In all things, if right and wrong are not clear, you must be careful. When right and wrong are clear, you should decided on the basis of reason, consider where the truth lies, and settle the issue without doubt. In this way, you cannot be confused by flattery and cannot be moved [...]
Good Afternoon and welcome back.
It’s my sincere hope that all of you enjoyed a relaxing and rich summer break. I know many of you that are returning will be disappointed to hear that I have no stories about spiders this year. Instead, Mr. Morse asked me to share with you a few brief words [...]
I often wonder if leadership is something that an individual is born with or if, in fact, it can be taught. While aspects of leadership such as good communication skills, team work and problem solving are skills and attributes that can be honed and developed, does a person have an intrinsic “leadership nature”? Today I [...]