Chip and Dan Heath point out in their influential book Made to Stick that we suffer from the “Curse of Knowledge”—“Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.” This is a key dilemma facing educational leaders, from Arne Duncan to campus level principals. How do [...]
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Defining a vision
October 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Leadership, libraries
In their article in School Library Journal, Things That Keep us Up at Night, Joyce Valenza and Doug Johnson have given us much food for thought. They are earnestly concerned about the survival of school librarians and libraries if we don’t evolve to meet the current demands that technological and societal changes regarding information use have [...]
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Serendipity
July 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Change, Leadership
One of my favorite things about learning is the serendipity of it all. We know we need to learn something or grow in some way, and voila, as we are out in the world, and read blogs, and read books, we stumble over these things serendipitously. That’s one of the things I love about bookstores [...]
Leading a community
July 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Leadership, Web 2.0
July 4 was National Leadership Day. I’ve been thinking a lot about NECC, and about leadership, and what qualities I think are most important in a leader. Though frankly, I’d like to expand the definition of leader to include all of us, because every person on a campus can provide some sort of leadership for [...]
Why blog anyway?
April 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Leadership, Web 2.0
I’m sure some teachers or others wonder why I blog or don’t really understand the point of sharing what’s going on in our school. And I’ve seen recent comments around online about the proliferation of blogs–wondering if we can get overwhelmed or there be too many, etc. But this post at the Principal’s Page blog [...]
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Flashing back–web tools for administrators
November 11th, 2007 · No Comments · ISW2007, Leadership, Podcasts, Web 2.0
Kim Cofino twittered a link for her excellent presentations for the TeachIt! conference this morning, which reminded me that I hadn’t ever shared my presentation from the Internet Librarian session I did on Web 2.0 tools that librarians could share with their administrators. So in the interest of sharing resources, here are my slides: [slideshare id=144623&doc=il2007-1193251903222853-4&w=425] Several administrators, [...]
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What can we do going forward?
October 4th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Leadership, Tools, Web 2.0
I’ve been following a number of posts the last couple of weeks about internet filtering and the erratic application of it in schools, and the frustrations of teachers just wanting to share fascinating new ways of learning with their students. Karl Fisch did an excellent job of pulling some of those threads together in [...]
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What motivates you?
August 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Leadership, Staff development, Teacher Learner
School started in earnest for me on Friday, and I’ve felt a little dispirited. On the one hand, I have learned so much this summer that I am enthused and eager about implementing. But the tasks at hand right now aren’t necessarily those that will even get me there, but things I have to get [...]
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Innovative leadership — paying it forward
July 4th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Change, Leadership, Web 2.0, Whole New Mind
Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant designated July 4 as School Leadership Day, and has invited bloggers to write about how to support innovative school leadership. I’d like to share some ideas but also compliment the leadership in our district and at our high school, because there have been some great strides towards innovative leadership both [...]
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