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Friday's Five Ideas for the Future October 18, 2019
Diverse on Purpose, Different by Design– "Un-Keynoters" Dacher Keltner: Professor of Psychology, Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center and Author Dacher Keltner's research focuses on the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, as well as power, social class and inequality. Most intriguing is his expertise on the 'Science of Awe.' According to his findings, awe, more than any other emotion, leads people to cooperate, share resources, and sacrifice for others. Brief experiences of awe redefine the self in terms of the collective and orient our actions toward the interests of others. Learn more about Dacher Firoozeh Dumas: Iranian-American Memoirist and Novelist Educators have found that Firoozeh's books are a gateway to many conversations, including shared humanity, immigration, language, family, and identity. Her memoir, Funny in Farsi, has become a staple in junior high, high school and college curriculums nationwide. For the past eleven years, Firoozeh has traveled the country reminding us that our commonalities far outweigh our differences. Join her for her next stop in New York City at the 2020 AAIE Leadership Conversation. Learn more about Firoozeh
Now on to this week's Five... 1. Nicholas Cole says that self-reflection is the key to all personal development, and that development can happen at any time; all you have to do is ask yourself the right questions. 2. It takes work, it takes intentionality, it takes vulnerability, and it is rarely easy. But when it comes to building trust and keeping a healthy team, leaders have to attack problems, not people. 3. There is a misconception about introverts, especially when it comes to leadership. Alison Rushworth debunks the myth and offers strategies for being a successful introverted leader. 4. A look at how coaching—a form of professional development known to be effective for teachers—benefits principals and other instructional leaders. 5. To discover the latest products and trends in school supply, download and share the newly published annual ISS School Supply Supplement.
Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead In Those Years
In those years, people will say, we lost track of the meaning of we, of you we found ourselves reduced to I and the whole thing became silly, ironic, terrible: we were trying to live a personal life and, yes, that was the only life we could bear witness to
But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged into our personal weather They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove along the shore, through the rags of fog where we stood, saying I -Adrienne Rich
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