What if ‘Data-Driven’ is the Wrong Approach?
“In practice, making decisions with data often comes down to finding a purpose for the data at hand." This is backward thinking.
Leading Through Radical Uncertainty
When circumstances are in flux, when reliable data points to which we've been accustomed are anything but reliable, when resources are scarce (or appropriately tight), when key stakeholders (faculty and staff, parents, donors, and more) are under pressure, how we respond is the test of our mettle...how we respond to the apparent turbulence that surrounds us.
On Bold Moves
Schools are becoming increasingly ambidextrous organizations (Robert Duncan, 1976), even though they may be unaware of it. Leaders must focus simultaneously on delivering current educational practice while preparing for the future. That being said, really bold schools have decided not just to prepare for the future, they’re moving into it right now. If those shifts become permanent (if there is such a thing…), then it means that certain schools are going through a recalibration, the full extent of which may not be recognized or appreciated for several years.
Toward the Future of Higher Education
Putting lipstick on the digital pig during the pandemic has served only to shine a spotlight on the seismic shift facing higher education.
Of Algorithms and Leadership
What I had not considered, until reading the aforementioned interview, was how algorithmic ecology (this may be a neologism…i.e., the relations between/among algorithmic softwares and the environments in which they are used) might affect leadership development.