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.
The Slow Cognition Movement
What if…? What if schools moved more toward paced education, as a model for how we ‘do school’? The design strives for a certain harmony…a balance of tech and non-tech that is deeply intentional. Imagine “Not-Spots” as ‘destination areas’ within your school. Perhaps they’re even personal, at times, as in: can I use your not-spot? What if…we were intentional about slow cognition, in terms of creating a movement?
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.
What Boards Really Want From the Next Director
Too many boards don't know what they want from the next director, when there is a transition. They aren't short on ideas of what they *think* they want, but one wonders whether what they think they want and what the school needs align in ways that are beneficial to all involved. Let's be honest: 100% success of the new director is never guaranteed. Sometimes things just don't work out the way that the board thought they would. There are also those boards which continue to be shocked and appalled when their director choices fail repeatedly.