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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: school leadership and district leadership.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Lead Equity Through Literacy in All Classrooms
Equal access to a good public education can be offered in every classroom through the development of literacy.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Teachers as Leaders
The pressure is on our system and on each of us. We need new thinkers. And, we need to develop them, from within, right now. We need strong leadership on every level of the organization.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Gay in Our Schools
What we need to do is to create the safe and trustworthy environments where all are welcome. Standing up and accepting and supporting gay students and colleagues is courageous and necessary.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Overproducing Teachers? Stop It!
Where are the deans and college faculty who are willing to step into that partnership and the hard, invigorating work of leading change? For schools of education, the work of "higher ed" and "lower ed" cannot be separate. Our schools and our children are in the learning crucible.
School & District Management
Opinion
Evaluation Takes Time
The way a superintendent approaches the evaluation process with principals is the way a principal should at least attempt to approach the evaluation process with teachers. If we approach this evaluation process as a priority and with fidelity, we have the real opportunity to develop our building leaders.
Classroom Technology
Opinion
Make Digital Learning Day Count
Curiosity and courage are two essential leadership factors we need in this moment when technology is taking down the schoolhouse walls. Neither moat nor policy will keep it out. It is already in the hands of our children. We cannot control it but we can guide its entry into our environments and benefit students if we understand it.
Classroom Technology
Opinion
Embrace Technology or Be Left Behind
Too many of our schools are mired in old ways. Many still ban handheld technology ...as if we could stop this tide from entering our walls!
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Leaders Cannot Be Bystanders
Leaders cannot be bystanders for any reason. There is no excuse to stand by and every reason to stand up. The leader's role is to break the cycle.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Leading from Tolerance to Acceptance
Inclusion is an essential foundation in the successful development of public school learning environments.
Families & the Community
Opinion
Herculean Challenges for Leaders
If we have not spent time knowing and becoming ourselves along the way, we might be found figuring it out while we are tossed about in public.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
Longer School Day, Longer School Year
Now is the time to prepare our schools and avoid a swift legislative action from crashing down around us again. We can get an edge on this movement by getting ready. As leaders we have the responsibility to step up and the first step is asking good questions.
Education
Opinion
Diversity and the Moral Compass
The leader's role is to speak out and define the higher ground that called us to leadership in the first place.
Families & the Community
Opinion
The Power of Community
Building community in our schools, working toward becoming a stronger community as a school organization, is work that should not be placed on the back burner.