tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662711620804975501.post2537641417183185034..comments2023-10-30T04:55:53.893-05:00Comments on The Next Generation of Educational Leadership: The Next Generation of Educational LeadershipNathan Barberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12572151680823603108noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662711620804975501.post-82047655237478337332008-07-19T10:45:00.000-05:002008-07-19T10:45:00.000-05:00I am so glad to see this interview with Phil. He i...I am so glad to see this interview with Phil. He is truly an innovator in the field of pedagogy and teaching. In the future, I plan on stealing so many ideas of his. Thank goodness that imitation is the highest form of flattery in teaching.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662711620804975501.post-58357331202803780642008-06-21T16:59:00.000-05:002008-06-21T16:59:00.000-05:00Hey,I wanted my readers to know about your great b...Hey,<BR/><BR/>I wanted my readers to know about your great blog. I wrote a short piece introducing it to my readers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662711620804975501.post-61028117367476194122008-06-20T10:50:00.000-05:002008-06-20T10:50:00.000-05:00Nathan,This post and blog will challenge all of us...Nathan,<BR/><BR/>This post and blog will challenge all of us who are academic and administrative leaders in schools. I do believe that independent schools and those who operate them should look to be transformative in our leadership, teaching, scholarship, and in how we see ourselves among fellow colleagues and peers acros the country. Why do things because a local school district does it that way.<BR/><BR/>As a faculty, we must do a better job when it comes to having important conversations about independent schools and how they function. <BR/><BR/>I look forward to further discussions on this topic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662711620804975501.post-37607922323186081392008-06-19T14:09:00.000-05:002008-06-19T14:09:00.000-05:00Brilliant work, Nathan! As to the blog, and to pa...Brilliant work, Nathan! <BR/><BR/>As to the blog, and to paraphrase DuFour, teachers are independent contractors connected by a common parking lot. Or as another source wrote, “In an era in which cable television and the Internet routinely broadcast almost every imaginable human activity . . . teaching may be the last private act in America.” I think this generation, and certainly the next, will need to engage the faculty at a much higher level in order to get from them what is necessary to educate twenty-first century students. Public or independent, the price for not doing so will be a continuing academic slide.Haroldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08337192746659896897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662711620804975501.post-75921623059867510812008-06-19T13:50:00.000-05:002008-06-19T13:50:00.000-05:00Great blog idea. At this year's National Associati...Great blog idea. <BR/>At this year's National Association of Independent Schools the futurist Faith Popcorn described schools 20 years from now. Her ideas were fascinating. She said that the common notion of what a school is and does will no longer be viable. That schools without walls will dominate the educational landscape beyond the primary grades, and that home schooling with enormous amounts of high quality support from web-based or other technology-based providers will be a major player in elementary. <BR/>If she is right at all she raises the enormously important question of how we today can begin integrating technology in more creative, more connecting ways. There was fear 20 years ago that technolgies like e-mail would actually diminish the art of writing and isolate us. We now know that it has had a very different result. <BR/>Imagine a world in which your high school junior takes English Lit from a professor at Oxford, Calculus from a mathematician in Mombai, and music from an instructor at Julliard. How can all this be brought together in a cogent way? How will certificates of accomplishment (dimplomas?) be reckoned, and by whom? How will quality be assured, and who pays whom for the service? What will the school experience be? Will we still need cheerleaders?<BR/><BR/>The global flat-world economy described by Friedman means we will have a wildly different world view, and in everything, greater options. So how do we make the best use of them? What indeed will school mean? These are all essential questions for the leaders of tomorrow, but how do we prepare ourselves for it? What in our edcuation as leaders has the slightest connection to that world? Wow.<BR/><BR/>What an exciting future!Nichademushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18033024827061034699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-662711620804975501.post-41574610625109114992008-06-19T11:04:00.000-05:002008-06-19T11:04:00.000-05:00Nathan, I think this is going to be a fantastic bl...Nathan, I think this is going to be a fantastic blog in terms of content and conversation.<BR/><BR/>While I concur with your observations about the future of educational leadership, there's something important to add (and you seem to imply this in reason #1). Perhaps this is a given in education--but 21st century style collaboration, or to use a fashionable term--"crowdsourcing"--is also key. And perhaps implicitly this is your aim for the blog.<BR/><BR/>So to answer your question, I'd say the next generation of educational leaders must be "crowdsourcers."<BR/><BR/>**Journalist Jeff Howe coined the term crowdsourcing in a 2006 Wired article and has a blog: http://crowdsourcing.typepad.com/cs/<BR/><BR/>Howe defines crowdsourcing as "the application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software."Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13853976805605495345noreply@blogger.com