Lead From Middle
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This document provides 10 ways for middle leaders to lead from the middle, including having water cooler conversations, using email lists, listservs and networks, wikis, blogging, Twitter, online communities like Nings, social bookmarking, podcasting, and having conversations. It emphasizes building learning communities, exhibiting leadership through vision and shared decision making, reflecting on research and practice, and contributing to the teaching profession. Quotes encourage producing leaders rather than followers, listening to others, identifying problems and initiating change, and defining your own practice through reflection.
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- 1. 10 Ways To Lead From The Middle Tom McGee PA Keystone Technology Integrator Star Discovery Educator 錚 Distinguished Educator 1
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- 4. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader 4
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- 6. Leadership is about capacity: the capacity of leaders to listen and observe, to use their expertise as a starting point to encourage dialogue between all levels of decision-making, to establish processes and transparency in decision-making, to articulate their own values and visions clearly but not impose them. Ann Marie E. McSwain, Assistant Professor at Lincoln University 6
- 7. Leadership is about setting and not just reacting to agendas, identifying problems, and initiating change that makes for substantial improvement rather than managing change. Ann Marie E. McSwain, Assistant Professor at Lincoln University 7
- 8. "Leadership isn't just about ef鍖ciency and effectiveness, but also what is good, what is right, and what makes sense and what is worth doing." - Thomas Sergiovanni 8
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- 10. "Successful community building depends in large measure, on each individual school de鍖ning for itself its own life and creating for itself its own practice of schooling. - Thomas Sergiovanni 10
- 11. "Successful community building depends in large measure, on each individual school de鍖ning for itself its own life and creating for itself its own practice of schooling. - Thomas Sergiovanni 11
- 12. This inside-out strategy requires a considerable amount of searching and reflection, as teachers struggle with such issues as who they are, what they hope to become for the students they serve, and how they will decide organize, teach, learn, and live together." - Thomas Sergiovanni 12
- 13. This inside-out strategy requires a considerable amount of searching and reflection, as teachers struggle with such issues as who they are, what they hope to become for the students they serve, and how they will decide organize, teach, learn, and live together." - Thomas Sergiovanni 13
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- 15. Professional Growth & Leadership Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers: participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning. exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others. evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning. contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community. 15
- 16. Transformational Leadership Be the change you want to see in the world! Ghandi 16
- 17. Personal Learning Networks 17
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- 20. #2 eMail 20
- 21. #3 Listservs & Networks 21
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- 26. #4 Wikis 24
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- 30. #5 Blogging 26
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- 35. #6 Twitter 28
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- 38. #7 Nings 30
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- 45. #8 Social Bookmarking 32
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- 49. #9 Podcasting 34
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- 51. Conversations 36