Schools have been making incremental progress in an exponential

environment.

It doesn’t work!!

“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects in the same way.”

--Howard Gardner

Out-of-the-Box Leadership

The role of an educational leader is to build a bridge and lead people across it, because it is only by crossing that bridge that people can find a new place to stand.

We Know That….

We must reexamine how we are teaching children and what we are teaching them.

Probably the most important and the most difficult job of an instructional leader is to change the prevailing culture of a school.

Roland Barth

A school’s culture has far more influence on life and learning in the schoolhouse than the president of the country, the department of education, the superintendent, the school board or even the principal, the teachers and parents can ever have.

Roland Barth

Concept

Outside-the-box leaders know that what they think and how they consistently act makes a difference in the quality of teaching, learning, and relationships in their schools.

Out-of-the-box leaders work at seeing problems as opportunities. They approach antagonists as partners.

Providing a “Rack of Leadership Options”

• We need to do more than “tailor the same suit of clothes.”

• It is all about relationships, relationships, relationships.

Fairness does not mean

everyone gets the same.

Fairness means everyone

gets what he/she needs to

succeed.

As a general rule, people don’t willingly follow leaders in order to serve the leaders’ interests; they freely follow when their own interests area being served.

Hank Rubin

Aerodynamically, the bumblebeeshouldn’t be able to fly but the

bumblebee doesn’t know it so itgoes on flying anyway.

Mary Kay Ash

• Outside-the-box leaders view their schools as invention machines rather than simply as implementers of solutions imposed from the outside.

• Dennis Sparks

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in

having new eyes.

• --Marcel Proust

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Helen Keller