The Educator's Notebook

A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

Source: Explo Elevate

“Table Stakes Aren’t Strategy”

“School may need two separate documents: An Operational Imperative Plan that lays out the work needed to maintain institutional health, improve existing programs, upgrade facilities, and strengthen operational capabilities. This is essential work and deserves serious attention and resources. A Strategic Positioning Plan that articulates the school’s distinctive choices about future direction, makes explicit hypotheses […]

“Building A High Performance School Leadership Metabolism”

“Just as individuals vary dramatically in their ability to process challenges and maintain energy under pressure, school leadership teams have vastly different capacities for handling complexity, making decisions, and sustaining momentum through difficult changes. Some teams can absorb multiple competing priorities, quickly convert problems into action plans, and maintain strategic focus even when facing setbacks. […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.

– Peter Nilsson

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