Five Leadership Lessons From James T. Kirk. Passion and Leadership. Today’s post is a guest blog by Steve Moore.
He is a long-time friend and someone I respect deeply. Steve serves as the President of Missio Nexus. He is a also a member of the Growing Leaders speakers team and is available to provide leadership training to organizations. His most recent book, Who is My Neighbor? Being a Good Samaritan in a Connected World, was released in May, 2011.
The word passion is used to describe a powerful range of emotions, from love to anger, hatred to joy. Passion is important for leaders for at least two reasons. Passions are like interests on steroids. What amazes me is how many leaders seem to have so little self-awareness when it comes to understanding their passions. The Relationship Between Vision and Passion Few topics have been given more attention in leadership literature than vision, for good reason. Most leaders intuitively understand that effective communication calls for both passion and vision. Your Passion Profile 1. 2. 3. 1. Karin Chenoweth: Principals Matter: School Leaders Can Drive Student Learning.
Most teachers have long known that they affect the life chances of children.
But it took the work of economists to convince the world of public policy to take seriously what is now known as "teacher effectiveness. " Now one of those very same economists has turned to another subject that, to most teachers and principals, is similarly self-evident: Principals, like teachers, affect the life chances of children, too. Last week, Stanford's Eric Hanushek -- who conducted many of the early economic analyses on teacher impact -- presented a new research paper at a conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Educational Research. The findings show, in his words, that "principals matter. " How much they matter to kids still needs further study and depends on how you run the analysis. In some ways, Hanushek is not saying anything new. February 2012. <div><h5>Helping<br />Gifted Learners<br />SOAR<br /></h5><p></p><p></p><h7><i>Pre-assessment is the first step;</i><br /><i>differentiation is the second.
</i><br /><i>Here’s how teachers can<br />address the needs of<br />their brightest students. </i><br /><b>Susan Rakow</b><br /></h7><p></p><p>I’m bored! I learned this a long time ago! ” Shawna lamented to her mother when she refused to do her math and spelling homework.
Lately, she even resisted going to school. Zoom level fullscreen one page two pages share print.