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Order and Disorder: New Ways of Thinking About the Covid-19 Crisis
The Cynefin Framework is a useful guide to help you understand the problems that are occurring and apply the right actions. Throughout the Covid-19 crisis, we may have been trying to keep the problems on the “ordered side”. When in fact, many of these issues reside on the disordered side that have no immediate answers. Looking ahead, do we need to consider emerging issues from new ways of thinking?
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Don’t Fix: Just Listen
By any measure, the school leader’s role has shifted significantly over the past nine months as has the teacher’s role. Your teachers need something a lot different right now. They need a strong relationship with you to know they are supported and have somebody that can provide some semblance of stability.
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Supporting Your Teachers’ Self-Efficacy
In today’s Covid-19 environment, support of teachers’ self-efficacy has become a primary role for school leaders. Read how you can support this skill in your teachers.
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Lifequakes and Meaning from the Crisis
What we once knew and understood about leading schools has been seriously challenged. All of us have been thrown into the crucible, and making sense of these events has kept many of us thinking in overdrive this summer.
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Emerging Problem Spaces for Learning
Since our last post, almost every district and school in the United States has had to make a complete pivot to remote and online learning. This...
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LLI Research Brief #3
The Topic of the Research: The impacts of high schools on students’ social-emotional development. Citation: Jackson, K., Porter, S.C., Easton,...
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