Leadership 360
Leadership experts in the K-12 field Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers wrote about challenges and possibilities for administrators in the 21st century. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: school leadership and district leadership.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
The Subtle Ways Educators Define and Separate Students
How we define children shows in how they are treated, scheduled, and discussed.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Discipline Can Have Irreversible Consequences
With all the attention being paid to academic success and high standards, we can not leave the work of school culture and the manner in which the business of teaching and learning takes place behind.
Education
Opinion
Leaders Who Can See and Hear Others
It is precisely the capacity to make the tough decisions while holding the consequences with care and attention that makes us the strong and compassionate leader.
School & District Management
Opinion
Addressing Cyberbullying as a School Leader
Educators on the front lines can play an integral role in helping teens and their families make healthy choices as they navigate what happens on these new apps and sites.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
President Obama, Are You Sure Standardized Testing Is the Problem?
From a political perspective, it might quiet the storm of opposition and save the standards but isn't it just the same reactivity that got us here in the first place?
School & District Management
Opinion
Leadership Challenges: Solutions Are in Each Educator, School, and District
Let it be from within our ranks that the solutions arise and are shared with those able to turn it into mandates and laws.
School & District Management
Opinion
Who Has the Most Important Role in the District?
None of us will succeed without the other and students will be the losers if we fail to remember what brought us this far.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Schools Need Design Teams
The organization of schools must be in sync with the world in which they are situated, and the one into which students will graduate and become a work force.
Curriculum
Opinion
Ben Carson, You Made Us Think About Teaching and Learning
Ben Carson's shocking perspective and his wake up call words aren't to be ignored.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Schools Depend Upon the Integrity of Their Leaders
A leader's ethical compass must be held so synonymously with self-identity that it can't be compromised without alarms going off in our heads and hearts telling us we are lost.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
How Are Schools Moving Forward?
Blaming educators for the "broken system" does not prepare those who are leading the heavy lift before us to be energized or visionary.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Is There Time to Lead Change Well?
Time is better spent up front creating an environment in which the new initiative is recognized as being valuable, building the coalition to lead with you, sharing the vision generously for all to own, designing a clear-cut strategy, and creating the environment that invites broad-based action, recognizes short-term "wins," and sustains the movement.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Are Your Observations Improving Teaching and Learning?
Observing teachers in order to improve practice can only improve results if teacher practice is in relationship with the causes of student performance.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Stop Bullying This Month and Every Month
The leaders' role is first and foremost to be keenly aware not only of the definition of bullying, but of how to recognize it in the interactions between and among adults and children.