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Taming the Beast Within Our Schools: Teacher Collaboration
Over the last few weeks of interviews with school leaders, I’ve heard the common theme that being able to communicate effectively with others is a priceless skill for leaders. This isn’t shocking news to any of us, yet sometimes it can be very easy to shutdown the lines of communication with our coworkers when things don’t go the way we planned. Recently a school head in Hong Kong reminded me of this by saying “we...
The Complaint Box Versus The Ballot Box
I’m excited to introduce our first guest blogger at Learn[ed]Leadership. Patrick Love is a upper school counselor at Brent International School in the Philippines. In addition to college guidance and counseling services, Patrick has a real passion on the role of school counselors as leaders, and has been embodying that through designing a school wide social and emotional counseling program and championing data driven change....
TLP: Dr. Harlan Lyso
“Give your people responsibility, mentor them…and oversee their work so you can see that they’ve been successful.” This simple philosophy has shaped the careers and education of countless students, faculty and staff at the schools where Dr. Harlan Lyso has worked. It’s this uncomplicated and principle-based leadership style that has guided Dr. Lyso through nearly 40 years of international ED experience throughout the world. Most...
Failures of Leadership
Despite a tsunami of books, classes and ‘experts’ on leadership, countless school leaders struggle to do their jobs effectively…they fail to lead. Why is this? Why do some of us continually fail to reach the high expectations we hoped to achieve as we watched others lead, promising we wouldn’t make the same mistakes? As I’ve spoken to different school leaders in international ED, I continue to hear a few...
TLP: David Toze, Superintendent at International School Manila
Mr. David Toze is the Superintendent at the International School Manila. Wait a minute did I misspeak? Certainly I must have meant Dr. David Toze, right? If one looks at the School Head Welcome Message on most international school’s website, they’ll notice a similarity between most heads, three letters…PhD. During my conversation with Mr. Toze, he explained why he chose not to pursue a PhD and how he and other leaders have...
