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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: school leadership and district leadership.
School & District Management
Opinion
Leading Through the Testing Minefield
As the testing mania grows, we carry out the implementation with fidelity and honesty, standing tall while we live with the frustration , fatigue, fear...and yes, anger... growing within our communities.
School & District Management
Opinion
Leading From Courage or Fear
How do our brains and hearts ...and yes, even our physical bodies... perform in crisis. It is about who we are at our core.
Assessment
Opinion
Opt-Out of Testing? What Happens Next?
Students are being asked to ignore us and we are being asked to force them to sit through testing when in our hearts, we, too, may question this testing program.
Classroom Technology
Opinion
Flipped Learning: Take It or Leave It
District and building leaders have the opportunity to lead implementation of transformative teaching and learning practices. Flipping may be one worth doing.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Why Schools Shouldn't Block Facebook
The students took off in a media environment and are partially misusing it while most of us lag behind and don't really have a good sense of how to use the media properly at all. Understanding the role social media plays in the lives of our students, and seizing the opportunity for teaching ethical behavior is imperative for today's leaders. If we don't take advantage of any opportunity to teach how to behave virtuously and offer the opportunity for practice, we are missing the boat.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Schools, Guns, and Common Sense
Where do we begin to advocate for our schools and how to we use our positions to educate? Until we overcome the human conditions that lead to violence, we must make better laws. Common sense must prevail.
School & District Management
Opinion
Leadership Comes From The Heart
Heartfelt leaders will inspire everyone else to endure this year and the next, and will cause them to be courageous as they take risks and do things newly.
Budget & Finance
Opinion
School Budgets and Social Media: Leaders at the Edge
School leaders must recognize that relying only on traditional communication tools will lead to frustration on the part of today's voting public. People expect to communicate digitally, interactively and with immediacy.
Education
Opinion
Beverly Hall's Fall From Grace: Lessons in Leadership
No leader can lack integrity. Every time we act, we must ask ourselves, "Is this the right thing to do?" I
Classroom Technology
Opinion
Teachers Tweet, Administrators Don't
Do more teachers than administrators use Twitter?
Education
Opinion
Leadership Transitions: Lessons From Pope Francis
Pope Francis is one of the world's most visible leaders and so far he seems to be creating a mini case study for the study of transitions in leadership.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Are Teachers Overpaid?
Predecessors with good intentions created these contracts and extended these benefits but they could not have foreseen the convergence of social, political and economic forces occurring in this moment. It is our turn to navigate and the old maps no longer serve.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Partners Are Essential
How do we clarify our part in solving the complex set of causes that lead to such horrific actions? One thing is for sure...we must have help.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Understanding Transgender in Our Schools
Let us hold true to making the tough choices, stop marginalizing those who may be different from us. Let us come together to make schools safe for girls, for boys, for those who are different by race or religion or ethnicity or sexual orientation.