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Have You Discovered the Sound of Silence?
I lost my headphones…or at least I’m not sure where I put them. No big deal, right? Except that I’m flying from Denver to Minneapolis and I’m surrounded by fellow travelers who are plugged in and entertained, sleeping, or some combination of both. So now that I’m entertainment-less on a plane it begs the question, when was the last time you took time to simply sit in silence? For most of us it’s a small pleasure we rarely take time...
How Three Questions Can Change the Way You Lead — And our First Freebie
You’ve found your way to Learn[ed]Leadership , this post happens to have our first free gift, continue reading to learn more about how to get it and take a moment to pass it on, comment, or rank it out of 5 stars. This month we’re hoping to increase the subscribers to our monthly (or so) Newsletter to over 300 people, currently we have 60. Please help! Show us you care by subscribing now and for immediate updates Like...
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Learn[ed]Voices: How to Make A Successful Leadership Transition
James MacDonald is Head of NIST International School and our brave inaugural guest blogger in our Learn[ED]Voices series. Check out more info on James in the author info below, and check out Learn[ED]Voices for more guest blogs each month. “Life is one big transition” Willie Stargell As international educators, if there is one thing we should know something about it is transitions. In our communities, every year we say...
Are You Rooting for Your Leaders to Fail?
I have a secret. A secret that if you knew you might think less of me. I’ll share it, if you promise not to judge me too harshly. Deal? Ok, here we go…I, Andy Aldrich, husband, father, educator, developer of Learn[ed]Leadership…am addicted to watching the hit ABC TV show The Bachelor.Like any addict, I never thought I’d end up this deep into my addiction. Counting down the days until the next episode, spinning ideas in...
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...
