A Quote by Andy Hargreaves
Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
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Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also a training ground for leadership. When we think of leaders, we remember times of change, innovation, and conflict. Leadership is often about shaping a new way of life. To do that, you must advance change, take risks, and accept responsibility for making change happen.
I am often asked about the difference between 'change management' and 'change leadership,' and whether it's just a matter of semantics. These terms are not interchangeable.
We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.
Leadership can change its mind; leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.
Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want to change in others than we are of how we need to change. Salvation for our educational ills is only secondarily "out there." Primarily it will have to come from within an educational community willing to say that we have met the enemy and it is us.
Often, when people like me are elected or appointed to positions of senior leadership, the rules of the game seem to change.
Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.
We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.
Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.
Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!
Engineers have shown to embody a tremendous amount of leadership skills through the collaborative educational environment.
When we look at the majority of the American people, when they believe that their leadership is letting them down, there is only one option out there for us, and that's to change that leadership.
Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.
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