Simple Doesn’t Mean Easy
The beauty of the four Critical Questions of a learning team is that they are simple. That doesn’t mean the process is easy, though.
The beauty of the four Critical Questions of a learning team is that they are simple. That doesn’t mean the process is easy, though.
Not wanting to just reflect on the past year, I thought I would share some leadership lessons I’ve recently learned from an unlikely source…
At a fundamental level, continuous improvement means that whatever I do today won’t be as good as tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or in a year or more. Because I’m not perfect…indeed, I’m far from it.
The school year is now in full swing, and that means a significant shift in the work I do with schools. I thought I would share my perspective on how that shift impacts (or doesn’t impact) the day-to-day work of learning.
“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” If it’s good for you to do something, then it must of necessity be good for me, too.
There’s a saying that my Persian Bahá’í friends share with me: Kam kam, rooz beh rooz. It literally means little by little, day by day. And it says a lot about life, relationships, and our work in schools.
Hopefully it goes without saying that schools are institutions of learning. This is particularly true for students. But what about the adults?