By Meaghan Dougherty and Gillian Judson Our educational ecosystem is increasingly complex. In North America, we are engaged in educational environments marked by vast disparities in funding and resources coupled with the ever-increasing physical, emotional, social, and academic needs of students. We are responsible for caring for students, for keeping them safe, in a context […]
Category: Imaginative Educational Leadership (IEL)
Examining the role of imagination and specifically cognitive tools in school leadership.
Engaging Imagination to Develop a School Leadership Network that Includes a Pedagogy of Care
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 […]
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 […]