Building the Next Generation Company: Innovation, Talent, Excellence | MIT World. People Are Not Cogs - Nilofer Merchant - The Conversation. By Nilofer Merchant | 2:23 PM June 2, 2011 Every day I go to meetings where language suggests people are cogs. With peers in a few CEO roundtables, I’ve heard things like: “I plan on hiring 3 biz dev people to get $345K per headcount in revenues.” After publishing a book about closing the execution gap by focusing on the “peopley” stuff, CEOs of major companies took me aside (in a friendly way) to suggest I had made a major faux pas, and would be seen as having gone “soft.” In spite of a forest’s worth of academic papers and rafts of best practices published by the likes of HBR on the importance of the “soft” stuff, most companies continue to treat people as inputs in a production line.
And I. Are we still having this conversation, really? We know our economy has shifted away from mostly producing things . Yet most organizations still operate much as they did in the industrial age. Am I revealing a certain naïveté in even writing this? We know that life is not just about efficiency. The Positive Classroom:What New (Young) Principals Need to Know. The youth of the participants in our annual seminar for aspiring principals caught me by surprise. Most had been college students when the World Trade Center was attacked in 2001, and few understood schooling outside the aegis of No Child Left Behind. All were first-career teachers with just a few years of classroom experience.
Some of the aspiring principals I met in that seminar have found jobs; this September, they will step into the shoes of retiring baby boomer principals. The challenges facing these young educators are unparalleled. In anticipation of working with these new principals, I asked veteran principals, experienced teachers, and a few principals who had just finished their first year what essentials these young men and women should know as they enter their new role. Build Relationships Every respondent, without exception, recommended building relationships as the foundation for a successful principalship. Listen! Think Before You Leap Find a Mentor or Critical Friend. Principals Call for Mobile and Social Technologies in Schools. Policy | News Principals Call for Mobile and Social Technologies in Schools The National Association of Secondary School Principals is looking to change the conversation about mobile computing and social media in schools.
The group's board of directors recently released a position statement advocating greater access to and acceptance of technologies like smart phones and social networking sites in educational institutions. The statement characterized mobile and social technologies as both crises and opportunities for leaders, saying confusion among many principals has to date led many school leaders to knee-jerk policy decisions, such as outright bans on specific technologies. But these bans, in addition to being misguided, have been ineffective.
"For example, in schools that prohibit cell phones, 54 percent of students still report sending texts during the school day," the statement said, citing a 2010 Pew Internet report. The Craft of Management. It's Always the Leader! 5 Traits of 21st Century Educational Leadership {Educational Leadership, Educational Administration} - Developing Education. Ten Big Ideas of School Leadership. Middle school principal Mike McCarthy shares 30 years of wisdom on how to run a school well. Principal Mike McCarthy. Credit: Michael Warren During my senior year of college, I taught math to 26 inmates, none of whom had finished high school. What I faced was 26 examples of the failure of American education. 1) Your School Must Be For All Kids 100 Percent of the Time If you start making decisions based on avoiding conflict, the students lose. 2) Create a Vision, Write It Down, and Start Implementing It Don't put your vision in your drawer and hope for the best. 3) It's the People, Stupid The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from those who are still undecided. 4) Paddles in the Water In Outward Bound, you learn that when you are navigating dangerous rapids in a raft, the only way to succeed is for everyone in the boat to sit out on the edge and paddle really hard, even though everyone would rather be sitting in the center, where it's safer.
They pay me to worry. Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors. Educational Leadership - Articles, Resources for Educators. 7 Steps for Leading in 21st c. learning. It’s awkward to write about leadership as a leader. I write this to share not my accomplishments but my strategy of the last 20 months leading my school, the success of which remains to be seen and is for others to evaluate. Soon I will be presenting, along with two Head of School colleagues and Ken Kay, founder and longtime President of the Partnership for 21st century skills and now of EdLeader21, on the topic of 21st Century Learning at NAIS Schools: Leading and Networking for Progress. As part of this session, each of us will speak of our vision of leadership for progress; in preparation, this preview. Leadership is, more than anything else, a project of managing change.
A suggested Seven Steps for Leading in 21st century learning. 1. In this fast-changing era, our visions must be dynamic, adapting themselves to new tools and techniques, new information and understandings. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. To date, I have taken care not to direct how teaching must change in our classrooms. Like this: LeaderTalk Blog. Student Led Conferences (SLC's) might seem to be new but they've been around for awhile, at least 18 years - that's when I first encountered them as a newbie teacher. Since that beginning, I've had the professional pleasure of working with a number of school staffs and communities in adopting and growing SLC's. In my current position, this was our 3rd year with SLC's. Our school, a newly amalgamated K - 12 facility in a rural community, has an evening conference time and a morning conference when parents and their children can come to the school for the SLC. In my opinion, the best way to facilitate the SLC is to have them in the evenings/after school when both parents will be able to attend - as many families have both parents working.
Contrary to what many people seem to believe, SLC's are much more time intensive and require a great deal of preparation on the part of the student and the teacher. SLC's need to be discussed beginning in September. {*style:<i><b> SLC's are not new. School leadership. School leadership is the process of enlisting and guiding the talents and energies of teachers, pupils, and parents toward achieving common educational aims.
This term is often used synonymously with educational leadership in the United States and has supplanted educational management in the United Kingdom. Several universities in the United States offer graduate degrees in educational leadership.[1] History[edit] The term school leadership came into currency in the late 20th century for several reasons. Graduate studies[edit] The term "educational leadership" is also used to describe programs beyond schools. Some United States university graduate masters and doctoral programs are organized with higher education and adult education programs as a part of an educational leadership department. Literature, Research and Policy[edit] Several countries now have explicit policies on school leadership, including policies and budgets for the training and development of school leaders. Notes[edit]