By Myra Quadros-Meis, Ed.D (Administrator in San Francisco Unified School District) School leadership can be lonely and isolating. Your colleagues are other administrators who are also busy so you do not want to burden them with your questions or fears. Often, leadership meetings are full of logistics with little time to network much less be […]
Category: Imaginative Educational Leadership (IEL)
Examining the role of imagination and specifically cognitive tools in school leadership.
Family Stories: Re-envisioning the Possible in Classrooms
By Moraima Machado, Ed.D (Principal in San Lorenzo Unified School District) The goal of freedom is human creativity, the enhancement, and elaboration of life ~ (Nachmanovitch, 1990) When I was growing up in Venezuela, I often found myself on my mother’s bed or at our dining room table listening to stories. We didn’t have a […]
Imagination + People = Possibilities
By Tanya de Hoog (Principal and possibility explorer; MEd Imaginative K-12 Leadership) Before I started inquiring into the role of imagination in leadership, I used to think that imagination was a thing that belonged to a select group of gifted artists and thinkers. I did not count myself as one of them. Over time, I’ve […]