Fave Quote(s): Sometimes it is better to be kind than to be right. We do not always need an intelligent mind that speaks, just a patient heart that listens. Anonymous
Fave Quotes: The best research that any educator can do or tap into, is knowing and understanding the learners that they serve. Everything else is secondary (George Couros).
Personal Leadership Qualities: Engaging in creating meaningful opportunities for collective growth; constant modelling of building individual capacity, including pursuing doctoral studies
Fave Quotes: Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality – Warren Bennis
Personal Leadership Qualities: Guides continuous improvement; facilitates change through data analysis, research, and implementation of innovative practice
Fave Quotes: We should turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. (John Holt)
Personal Leadership Qualities: Commits to expanding capacity; supports a culture of high expectations and celebration of achievement
Fave Quotes: In a decolonizing framework, deconstruction is part of a larger intent. Taking apart the story, revealing underlying texts, and giving voice to things that are often known intuitively does not help people to improve their current conditions. (Linda Tuhiwai-Smith)
Personal Leadership Qualities: Serving in high FNMI populations, learning culture, stories, and traditions; long term applying of professional practices in Indigenization
Fave Quote: No stream rises higher than its source. Whatever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Personal Leadership Qualities: Strives to increase engagement; identifies differentiated learning needs to co-design optimum personalized learning
Fave Quotes: Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. (John C. Maxwell)
Personal Leadership Qualities: Empowers through distribution of leadership; accessible for support; continually strives for personal excellence
Fave Quotes: Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. (Steven Covey)
Personal Leadership Qualities: Promotes and sustains a safe learning environment; possesses strong business, communication, financial, and technological skills
Fave Quotes: There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures. (Bell Hooks)
Leadership Qualities: Strives to increase engagement; identifies differentiated learning needs to co-design optimum personalized learning
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than the solution. Albert Einstein
Through working in a progressive school division, I was introduced to Lost at School and the work of Dr. Ross Greene. Dr. Greene’s model is designed to address the needs of youth whose behaviors are challenging. The approach also works well in conversations surrounding learning needs for all students and with all people, in daily interaction.