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Video: Pathway to Entrepreneurial Learning via Solutionaries
A few weeks back I wrote a blog about my frustration as a 12th grade IB teacher. Like many of my fellow 12th grade teachers can attest to, student effectiveness drops of a cliff in second semester. So when my students suddenly came to class excited and inspired by the Kony 2012 campaign (a global movement to arrest the Ugandan warlord and war criminal Joseph Kony), we were all disappointed when after a quick discussion we had to...
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....
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...
Retreating!
Do you have an iPhone? I don’t, although I’ve often wished I did. In fact I’ve never had a smart or smarter phone. I missed the wave that propelled the average lay person into ultra high tech gadgety-phones back in approximately 2007. I was living in Korea at the time, and got by on a borrowed phone, which probably cost me about $10 a month to operate. When I moved back to the US for a year and half, iPhones had...
Building Schools For 2030
Last week during my interview with Dr. Dick Krajczar he stated that school leaders need to envision what classrooms and schools will be like in 2030. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, but still have few answers about what my 8 month old daughter’s classes should look like in 18 years. As I think about it from the perspective of a teacher I think how depressing it would be if 18 years from now I was doing the...
