Posts Tagged ‘engagement’
Growing a Culture of Care
Lessons Learned … Culture of Care. My Window on Education As an active full time coach/consultant I have the privilege of working with: Three superintendent cohorts representing 50 Superintendents and nearly 200,000 students; two leadership development teams; and a dozen 1:1 coaching relationships. I see weekly and monthly a broad sweep of educational issues as…
Read MoreCreating a Culture of Learning
Creating a Culture of Learning. Two themes. I hear two persistent themes through the pandemic. How do we build a culture of care; just to keep the wheels on and everyone functioning? And … How do we create a culture of learning to improve student learning? Both are needed. Care and creativity. Empathy and excellence.…
Read MoreEmbracing Community Conflict
Addressing Community Conflict … And Living to Tell About It When in doubt, reach out: collaborate. The answer is in the room. Invite the group to help resolve issues of the group. Polarized Schools have become the battleground for polarized views on COVID, race, books, and more. When in conflict, we have only so many…
Read MoreLearning our way forward
Learning Resilience Together Our superintendent cohort met last week. Resilience and strategic alignment were our themes: coping with the present and cautiously moving forward at the speed of trust. Here (not polished yet) is an emerging toolkit of our collective thinking on resilience. How we went about it is, in itself, a case study in…
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