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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: school leadership and district leadership.

School & District Management Opinion Leading in a Maelstrom
Profoundly skilled leaders are needed now. And that skill lies within each and every one of us. It is the combination of our capacities for empathy, positive attitudes, and abilities to use strategies, both social/emotional and intellectual.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 16, 2014
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Science Opinion What If Standards Are Not the Problem?
The real problem with education is we need to shift into this century. We have been trying to do it for years, through hard work and effort. It all has resulted in a tinkered with ailing system that is struggling along with phenomenal teachers and leaders who are exhausted from trying.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 13, 2014
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Education Opinion Leadership: Present and Future
Let's think about flipping the tone and focus of our work toward the future. As our current leadership works to develop their own capacities, let's work at developing leaders for the future.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 11, 2014
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Science Opinion We Have 21st-Century Learners Who Need 21st-Century Leaders
We must lead the shift to a way that maximizes opportunities for investigation, problem solving, and collaboration while maintaining assurance that each child is gaining knowledge, and is able to apply it both alone and with others.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 9, 2014
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Science Opinion Governors, Got Money?
We need an organizing platform for an informed voice. Throwing money at education won't solve our challenges unless we have a real voice in promoting the innovations we need.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 6, 2014
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Assessment Opinion Will We Ever Allow Computers to Grade Students' Writing?
We are not suggesting that a computer can replace the grace and value of the interaction between a teacher and a student. But let's have a discussion before we close our minds to the possibilities.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 4, 2014
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School Climate & Safety Opinion Bullying Is an Adult Issue First
How can we teach the children to not be bullies, if the adults are unaware that the words we use and the actions we take divide and hurt and maybe even bully?
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, February 2, 2014
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Education Opinion Let's Get Universal Pre-K Right
Let Universal Pre-K not become the next Common Core or standardized testing battle. Let's get active now, while it is still taking shape.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, January 30, 2014
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Assessment Opinion How Do We Lead Toward a Better Assessment System?
Perhaps, if we produce better local assessments, and use them to inform instruction, give constructive feedback, and help motivate our students, the standardized tests will fall aside and take their proper place as quiet snapshots of national progress while we attend to our students school by school.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, January 28, 2014
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Education Opinion Sam Berns' Courage Offers 4 Lessons in Leadership
How we bring ourselves to the challenges we face makes a difference in how we, and those who follow us, experience them.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, January 26, 2014
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School Climate & Safety Opinion Some Things Schools Can't Do Alone
Everything is not as it should be in our schools. We need to be able to attend to the business of turning our schools in to 21st century schools. But we need help.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, January 23, 2014
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School Climate & Safety Opinion When Nothing Happens
A day without incident means everyone attended to the responsibility they have been given. We do have much to be thankful for and often what we have to be thankful for is invisible.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, January 21, 2014
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Education Opinion We Need Leaders Who Listen and Unite
If we hold a fundamental belief that every individual wants to do meaningful work, we must find those leaders who are exploring a better way and trust they are in this for the same reasons we are - our children and the future.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, January 19, 2014
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Education Opinion The Leader's Blindspot: Governor Christie's Example
Leaders need to ask those questions and sit, quietly sometimes, to hear the answers that arise only from deep within...because any of us could become Chris Christie.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, January 16, 2014
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