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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: school leadership and district leadership.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Who Needs College?
It is not a good idea to tout the possibilities for success in business without attending college. It misleads.
Education
Opinion
Can We Be Captains Again? #TBT
Somewhere along the way educators seem to have lost their voice as advocates and leaders. What we need now is a gathering of voices, not against those trying to improve us, but as guides for them.
Education
Opinion
Leading Teachers Through Change: Ask New Questions & Listen
A sense of disorientation, a loss of what was previously the foundation of the work of teaching is being pulled away, and the response is a sort of disappearance.
Education
Opinion
Three Steps Toward Understanding
Listening, with attention and a willing mind and heart, creates space for understanding to grow. Listening is the open door toward finding common ground.
Education
Opinion
Improving Schools From Within #TBT
Leadership is an act of translation, bringing the outside to the door and making the inside ready to meet it.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Time Magazine Tackles Tenure
The quality of the education students receive in a school rests largely on the teachers in it. The achievement of the students in schools, however, depends on a vast array of factors.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Supporting GLBTQ Students: A Perspective From Boulder Valley
Students are now coming out as early as in middle school and in the case of transgender students, elementary school. Safe environments are needed.
Curriculum
Opinion
Problem-Solving Before STEM #TBT
STEM may be the new watchword of this century, but the learning behaviors and ideas about subject integration are not.
Education
Opinion
Poverty and Achievement
In order to meet the challenge of having all students leave schools college and career ready, the poverty achievement gap must be addressed.
Professional Development
Opinion
Unlearning: The Key Dimension of Professional Development for Technology-Enhanced Transformation
In today's guest post, Dr. Chris Dede talks about how professional development for transformative change requires unlearning, which necessitates high levels of emotional/social support in addition to intellectual and technical guidance.
School & District Management
Opinion
More Is Not Better: #TBT
If the conversation about longer school days and years is going to continue (and we think it is) there are a few things we need to do before it becomes another external solution even if imposed with the best of intentions.
Education
Opinion
Time for Daydreaming
In order to operate in an environment where the primary work engaged in involves cognitive tasks, the brain has to turn off its empathetic area! That is one big unintended consequence.
Special Education
Opinion
Nobel Peace Prize Winners: Finding Common Ground
Let us find that space where we come together with hope and purpose and care about our children and allow for our own Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai to rise from our crowd of concerned advocates.
Professional Development
Opinion
Leadership Standards Now and a Look Back #TBT
Attention must be paid how the leader's heart is developed and shared, the ways in which words are used to communicate and inspire or heal, and the way people feel about the authenticity of the person.