Transformative Leadership

When to Stick to the Plan—and When to Pivot: 5 Leadership Lessons

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Successful leadership today requires a balance between technical expertise and adaptive strategies to tackle diverse challenges effectively. Embrace this duality to enhance team performance.

Empowering Educational Leadership: Insights from the Harvard Institute for Superintendents and District Leaders

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Educational leaders at Harvard’s Institute engaged in discussions on transformative leadership, family engagement strategies, navigating challenges, and fostering mental health resilience to create positive change in communities.

HOPE

The article emphasizes the importance of Hope as a crucial predictor of success and well-being for students, especially in overcoming trauma, and advocates nurturing this quality in education.

The Four Steps to Becoming a ‘Leadership Artist’

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Superintendents are encouraged to embrace reconstruction in education post-pandemic, utilizing kintsugi principles to foster resilience and innovation through community engagement and reevaluating goals.

We should be teaching our children…

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The author, a bibliophile, emphasizes the importance of teaching critical thinking skills to students, highlighting key lessons from Hans Rosling’s book “Factfulness” to combat ignorance.

Jump…off social media

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The partnership among community, parents, and schools is crucial as students face modern challenges, particularly regarding social media’s impact on mental health and well-being.

The Power of Vision

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Revere emphasizes the value of creating a Portrait of a Graduate to unify educational goals, highlighting vision’s importance, especially post-pandemic, in evolving educational systems.