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Friday's Five Ideas for the Future October 11, 2019
1. Our own Rosalind Wiseman of Cultures of Dignity was featured yesterday in the Washington Post. She writes a remarkable letter directly to students of the Maret School in Washington D.C.– her alma mater. Rosalind calls out years of obfuscation and inaction on the part of school leaders in the face of major child protection/sexual abuse issues. Rosalind is at once stark in her language about the school from which she graduated but equally hopeful in how young people can be empowered to hold adults accountable. We are not immune to history in our own schools. 2. "A person's name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any language." Zulie Rane offers the simplest scientific strategies for remembering people's names, a critical skill for building relationships. 3. "If you aspire to be a leader, it's time to move past the idea of waiting for a title or position to give you authority. It's time to realize that leadership is more about who you are than what exactly you are doing. It's time to take the necessary steps to begin leading even when you're not in charge." 4. Here is a profile of the Lowery Institute in Atlanta, Georgia. They offer an admirable model of how to train a new generation of leaders through their Change Agent Fellowship Program. 5. If you're not already clued in, we want to introduce you to the research by the Search Institute which is producing some of the best longitudinal research on socially and emotionally happy and productive youth. Just as they have promoted the "40 Developmental Assets" research for over 30 years, most recently their research has focused on investing in systematic developmental relationships as a key to student achievement and happiness. We must get beyond the cliche that, "It's all about relationships" and self-consciously act within our school communities to prioritize the quality of relationships across age groups, including having key adults in the lives of our young people. The Search Institute has researched a Developmental Relationships Framework to support thinking and strategic actions within our international schools.
Considering that nearly 40% of youth report being "lonely" we need to focus on relationships as a key to quality teaching and learning. To discover why we need to rethink the quality of adult and student relationships within our schools, have a look at the work of Cultures of Dignity or take a read of Michele Obama's book, Becoming, as she discusses the power of adult influence on disenfranchised youth.
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Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Lead For the Children
The rising hills, the slopes, of statistics lie before us, the steep climb of everything, going up, up, as we all go down.
In the next century or the one beyond that, they say, are valleys, pastures, we can meet there in peace if we make it.
To climb these coming crests one word to you, to you and your children:
stay together learn the flowers go light
--Gary Snyder
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