I have a long history of collaborative work with Dr. Jeffrey Maher in his roles with professional development, mentoring, and coaching with educators in Maryland County School Districts. Jeff is currently the Chief Strategic Officer for St. Mary’s County Public Schools (MD). When Jeff shared his thoughts on how Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey illustrated a […]

From her career as a teacher and school leader in public, independent, and international schools and having opened three new schools, Barbara Smith proposes the importance of situating responsibility with students and teachers.  She describes why change is urgent and needs to be transformative. Just as teachers need to be facilitators of student responsibility to […]

Last week’s blog, explored using innovation to impact schools, teaching, and learning. I mentioned that being focused only on improvements can block transformational change and that leaders will like have difficulties to address in a school open to innovation. My reading took me further this week to examine transformations and what that would mean in […]