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New Horizons for Learning Online Journal
Vol. IX No. 4, Fall 2003From the Editor
Dee Dickinson"Without shared dreams, organizations falter and perish. Individuals, groups, and organizations all need their own stories."
-- From Leading With Soul by Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal.At the beginning of another school year we have gathered for you some both practical and inspirational thoughts about leadership-- primarily distributed leadership on the part of school administrators, teachers, students, and other members of the community. It is these leaders who can work collaboratively and make it possible to create nurturing and supportive environments in which all students can learn.
We would like to thank Dr. Steve Fink, co-director of the Center for Educational Leadership at the University of Washington, and his colleagues at the center and at Panasonic for their significant contributions to this issue. We also thank the outstanding school administrators, teachers, and students who have shared their wisdom and expertise in their articles.
In the coming year, the following topics will be the focus of future online Journals:
- Winter - Positive Outcomes for All Students;
- Spring - Learning Through assessment; and
- Summer - Extended Learning Opportunities (in after school, summer, internship, and exchange programs).
We invite you to send your suggestions and proposed articles for these issues to building@newhorizons.org.
You may also access exceptional archived issues from last school year on Learning Through the Arts, Learning Through Technology, Multicultural Education, and Environmental Education and Project-Based Learning.
We are delighted to announce a new addition to our staff! Janet Hayakawa, formerly ATLAS Site Developer, has joined us as Executive Director of New Horizons for Learning.
As always, we are anxious to hear from you and hope you will participate in our first Autumn Harvest Campaign so we can continue to make our online resources freely available to all!
TRANSFORMING EDUCATION: Leadership
Howard Gardner's Definition of Leadership
We open this journal on leadership with Gardner's definition of the term leader from his book Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership.The Courage to Lead: an Equity Agenda Stephen Fink
Co-Director Steve Fink of the University of Washington's Center for Educational Leadership explores the underlying structures causing the achievement gap and challenges educators to create high quality educational systems for all.Leadership for Social Justice: Envisioning an End to the Racial Achievement Gap Ed Taylor
Co-director Ed Taylor of the Center for Educational Leadership raises questions regarding social justice in 2003, and explores why it is that despite decades of school reform efforts children of color and children of poverty under-perform in school.Who’s Responsible for Closing the Achievement Gap? The role of School Leaders in Acknowledging and Accepting the Challenge Jean L. Snell
The author suggests three essential steps for school leaders to take in addressing long-standing educational inequities.Getting Real About Visionary Leadership for Progress in Education Scott Thompson
What is the distinction between a vision statement and the vision itself? Thompson discusses how a vision's power is what stays in thought or heart when one puts aside the words on paper.Learning and Leading: Rethinking District-School Relationships George S. Perry, Jr. and Jennifer McDermott
The authors explore the struggles of central office administrators responsible for supervising schools—an essential, yet often neglected, role in leading the effort to redesign them.The Role of Educational Leadership in Ensuring Academic Success for Every Child Jill Jacoby
The executive director of a school administrators' association cites research on successful school reform highlighting the power of the inclusive educational family, recognizing and valuing the essential roles of teachers as well as support staff including secretaries, assistants, bus drivers, food service staff, and custodians.The Way to Find a Teacher Leader – Just Ask! Patricia Raichle
The author describes how a teachers' association has worked systematically to open the eyes of teachers to their own potential for leadership and to help them recognize that leadership takes many forms.Leading with Hope and Trust Michael Silver
A school superintendent discusses the importance of helping others to imagine what is possible and, with an authentic voice, to ask who will care.Alliance for Education: Partner in Transforming Public Education Robin Pasquarella
The Director of the Alliance for Education describes the goal of the organization in creating a system of schools with the conditions, culture, and competencies to ensure that all young people are prepared to experience success in the future.Leadership for Democracy in Schools:Charting a Different Course in Times of Uniform Standards and External Accountability Andrew Rogers
A middle-school principal discusses how a democratic system that allows for greater staff, student, and parent involvement in shared leadership can lead to remarkable improvement in the school community.Leadership at Every Level: Appreciative Inquiry in Education Rich Henry
Through Appreciative Inquiry it is possible to recognize and amplify successes and strengths that already exist and create a new image of the future that is so compelling that we are drawn to it.Introduction to the Report A Decade of Reform Jeffrey T. Fouts
As we are barraged with results from tests on student achievement and data on school progress, an educational researcher clarifies and combines test data for Washington State and presents it in a non-technical format to make the findings easily accessible.NWIFTL: Learning from a Six Year Professional Development Initiative
The Northwest Initiative for Teaching and Learning was founded on the belief that collaboration is the key to significant organizational change and school improvement. This report focuses on the final phase of NWIFTL's successful work with partner schools.Leaders for Learning Pat Roschewski
The story of a new assessment system in the State of Nebraska where six promising practices are making a difference in education.School Leadership Development in Cambodia John Morefield
A retired school principal and member of the UW Center for Educational Leadership begins a series of reports from a new school leadership program he has begun in Cambodia. He will share his stories through an online journal on this site.Long-Term Educational Leadership in Venezuela Dee Dickinson
Dickinson synthesizes nearly 25 years of the Venezuelan Intelligence Project and draws some conclusions about its relevance to educational systems elsewhere.Update from the Venezuelan Intelligence Project Beatriz Cardozo de Capdevielle
The author, a long-time assistant to Dr. Luis Alberto Machado, Minister for the Development of Human Intelligence in Venezuela, gives a brief update on the project.
STUDENT VOICES
Please visit our Student Voices area for more articles on this subject.Student Leadership Today Grant Nelson
The student body president of a Washington State high school explains his views that positive student leadership entails building community within a school.Leadership: From a Student's Point of View Chris Smith
For this Seattle Center School sophomore, student leadership equals individual empowerment and less acceptance of the tyrannies of social cliques and peer pressure.
NEWS FROM THE NEUROSCIENCES
Please visit our News from the Neurosciences area for more articles on this subject.Optimizing Memory in the Adult Brain for Effectiveness in a Multitasking Society Donalee Markus
The author is a psychologist who has worked for many years with Dr. Reuven Feuerstein in his pioneering "teaching intelligence" program. She describes new skills she has developed for improving memory in the adult and senior years.
RECOMMENDED READING
Click on book title for more informationLeading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership Howard Gardner
The Wounded Leader: How Real Leadership Emerges in Times of Crisis Richard H. Ackerman and Pat Maslin-Ostrowski
Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith
Leading With Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal
Leadership Capacity for Lasting School Improvement Linda Lambert
Steve Boyd’s Top Leadership Books
The Schools Across Washington Project
September 15 - October 10th, 2003
Participate in a FREE Learning Space math project. Each class will gather data, create graphs, and post their findings using email and the Internet. Then each of the participating classes will compare the posted data in order to draw conclusions about school communities across the state of Washington and beyond.This is a four week project and the only requirement is that teachers have access to email and the Internet in their classrooms.First Annual Promising Practices Conference: Strategies for Struggling Students
Seattle, Washington • October 9-11, 2003Learning and the World you Want Conference
Victoria, B.C. Canada • November 20-23, 2003
This conference is for all concerned with the role of learning in calling forth and creating a sustainable global community and a peaceful world: an international and interdisciplinary conference that will interest and appeal to educators.The Practice of Peace Conference: Embracing Chaos, Confusion and Conflict
Whidbey Island, Washington • November 9, - 12, 2003Small is Not Enough: Creating High Achieving Schools for All Students
Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon • January 30-31, 2004
HAVE YOU SEEN?
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/le0cont.htm Topic "Leadership" from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. The lab links to articles exploring critical issues related to educational leadership, also related research and web sites.
National Association of Secondary School Principals The NASSP publishes Principal Leadership magazine. Some articles from the current issue are online for free, other areas of the site are available to members only.
Institute for Educational Leadership The Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) - a non-profit, nonpartisan organization based in Washington, DC - "envisions a society that uses its resources effectively to achieve better futures for all children and youth. For almost forty years, IEL's mission continues to be to build the capacity of individuals and organizations in education and related fields to work together - across policies, programs and sectors."
The International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning (IEJLL) "promotes the study and discussion of substantive leadership issues that are of current concern in educational communities. Preference is given to articles, reviews, and commentary that focus upon issues with a significant impact upon life in schools."
Journal of Educational Administration This is a publication based in the UK. No articles online, but descriptions of back issues available.
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