How long does change take?
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Category: Leadership & Change
Posts on school and district leadership, culture change, and leading innovation in education.
Building your Tribe and Leading a Community
Yes I’m still all about Seth’s new book Tribes and leading communities. If you want to know what skill is going to be needed…
Systematic Change Part 2: Unlearning your community
(As you can tell from Kim’s recent post. Systematic change at all levels is on our mind at ISB) How much time to we…
Leading a Tribe
I’ve read a lot of books in the past three years…..ok….for me personally it’s been a lot of reading. This one I didn’t actually…
Systematic Change: Part 1
(What follows is the thinking of many people that I have the pleasure to work with every day. It is my hope that I…
Change is hard
This morning before leaving for work I was enjoying a cup of coffee with The Thinking Chick (the new nickname for my wife by…
Putting the I in change
To often I hear educators make remarks about change. Either about that it’s too much, too fast, too often, or the more famous one,…
Dear Administrators
Please watch this video If you don’t understand what Chris is talking about, you’re out of touch. If you think you know what Chris…
Know what you want
Here’s what I find so cool about the Elementary Principal and VP here at ISB. A week before school starts the admin team decides…
Gapingvoid's Three C's Remixed
I’m going to remix some ideas from Gapingvoid. I do encourage you to read the entire post with an eye on education. It seems…