Paradox(es) in Education
If leading a school today requires a practitioner to understand and encounter the authenticity paradox, the status quo bias and loss aversion as key detractors from innovation, among other paradoxes in our sector, why would we not design fresh programming around those principles, instead of adhering to (arguably) anachronistic leadership development principles?
Persistent Innovation
How is your school designed, when it comes to the practice of innovation? Is resilience (of your talent, of your leadership) also part of the design of your school? How might you design for that, if you’re just now contemplating the journey? How might you course-correct, if you believe your design to be out of balance?
On Creative Construction
School leaders are reading about (or seeing) a relentless influx of new enterprises (organisations of all types) that are proposing new and innovative ways of doing things. These new ways of doing things result in challenging existing organisations with unanticipated business models, sometimes using new technologies.
The Stream of Now
Curriculum providers, accreditation agencies, and recruitment agencies need to pay attention to the stream of now as well, as should those commercial enterprises that provide products and services to schools. The stream of now isn’t some notion from science fiction; it is already available. It is the nature of our age that everyone is already in the stream of now. Question: how are we responding to it?
Our Bigger Dream
In Eastern philosophy, there is a great question posed: what is the nature of this age? What is the nature of our age? I submit that it is the globalisation of superficiality. Being ‘friends,’ for example, can mean one thing in a bricks-and-mortar school, whilst meaning something entirely different in the largest country on planet earth, Facebook. Lest you think I am joking, consider that Facebook has borders (virtual, bandwidth all around you), it has a population, it has rules of conduct (terms and conditions of use), it exhibits a certain ethos. I’m not providing a value judgement; I am only looking at it, as an entity. It should shock you, at least somewhat, that I would want to categorise Facebook as a nation. Yet, what is the nature of our age?