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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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: school leadership and district leadership.

Teaching Profession Opinion Teacher Leaders Welcomed
Teachers need to be invited and encouraged to take the initial steps into leadership. We hope the best among us, those who are motivated by deep passion for service and love for children and for learning, respond positively to the invitation.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 20, 2014
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Curriculum Opinion Evolving Thoughts of Leaders and Scientists
Dr. Stephen Hawking's work and ours, is steeped in paradox. There are no absolutes, in his work and ours, what we knew worked in the past is giving way to another question and new possibilities for answers. Life is change.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 18, 2014
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Teaching Profession Opinion An Open Letter From a 20th-Century Teacher
No matter what else the 21st century demands of your teaching and leading, remember John Dewey of the 20th century who taught "learning to do by doing," love your students, love your work, and remember there is nothing more important than your responsibility to your students.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 16, 2014
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Assessment Opinion The SAT Impact
How did a major architect of the Common Core, help to get the ball rolling in K-12 and then wind up leading the corporation that is the historical gatekeeper for colleges? This is not a statement about the value of the Common Core, or the SAT...rather it is a question about a grand plan that is swirling around us.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 13, 2014
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Teaching Opinion STEAMSS - The Emerging Acronym
Integrating STEM begins to break the previous century's model of subject matter as separate domains. This century demands that we engage children in new ways and develop new skills for them. What might have happened in the past as our finest moments now becomes a way of life.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 11, 2014
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School Climate & Safety Opinion What Can We Learn About Safe Schools From Arizona?
We are busy with the challenges of the day but there may be no more important challenge than to be ever vigilant that we are not denied the right to create safe and inclusive environments for our students.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 9, 2014
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Education Opinion R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Respect may be the fulcrum for change. We haven't seen this kind of leadership since Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. but that is no reason we can't choose to lead with that spirit and seek other such leaders to rise.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 6, 2014
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Standards & Accountability Opinion The Common Core Remains a Mixed Bag
The field is speaking and the longer dialogue is averted, the wider the chasm between the leadership and those responsible for teaching children will become. There will be no winners.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 4, 2014
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Education Opinion John Dewey Speaks to Us Today
Just recently we posted about looking forward to the horizon in order to be better informed about what lies ahead. We encourage walking, open eyed, into the frontier rather than waking up in it. Today, however, we are looking back. The past does have lessons to offer.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, March 2, 2014
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Classroom Technology Opinion Get Ready for What's Next: A Leadership Imperative
While the field of Internet providers narrows, and the capacity for access to the Internet broadens, what do you suppose the public's expectations for their use will become? This is a time for leadership to reach out to colleagues and develop a louder voice...as we see things arising, before they become our work.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 28, 2014
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Professional Development Opinion Feedback as Professional Development
How can we guarantee that teachers receive professional development that will most certainly fit in their classrooms and be developed and monitored over time? And, how do we include professional development to augment our knowledge of the human beings involved in the learning process: student and teacher?
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 26, 2014
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Science Opinion The Arts Are Essential
At the very time we are talking about the value of developing students who are able to create and innovate, the arts are being threatened. Minimizing the arts makes no sense but neither does preserving them as a separate and apart from academics, especially in this time of focus on STEM subjects.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 23, 2014
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Early Childhood Opinion Developing Resilience in Our Children With Help From Sesame Street
Building resilience skills should begin early but does not stop after children leave their preschool years. As a society, we should focus on helping children become stronger academically, as equally as we do their social and emotional wellbeing.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 20, 2014
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Education Opinion Building Strong Children
Building strong children should not be a serendipitous by-product of our work with children. It must be as much our focus as teaching them information about their subjects of study.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 18, 2014
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