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Friday's Five Ideas for the Future January 3, 2020
What's NEW for the NEW Year?
Editor's Note: We know that many of you are just returning to your school community from holiday. Allow us to poke you a bit if you have yet to complete your AAIE New York City Leadership CONVERSATION registration. Room nights at the Marriott Marquis NYC are becoming scarce and the final date to receive the AAIE preferred room price is January 10, 2020.
Our goal for the NYC CONVERSATION on February 1-5, 2020 is to provoke your best thinking about your leadership and key themes that will impact the future of teaching and learning around the world. Adult learning is a complicated proposition, and we continue to innovate to maximize your experience allowing you to grab hold of high impact ideas that support young people, your teachers and community. We need you with us to energize the CONVERSATION.
What does innovation look like for this year's CONVERSATION about "Diverse on Purpose, Different by Design" ? UN-KEYNOTER: Dr. Dacher Keltner, founder of the Greater Good Science Center at University of California, Berkeley will be one of two world-recognized un-keynote speakers: CLICK HERE for more about him and recent articles. Keltner wrote the bestseller, Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. CLICK HERE for his most recent podcasts. UN-KEYNOTER: Firoozeh Dumas, bestselling author of Funny in Farsi (within many international school reading lists), highlights diversity across families filled with love, country and heritage. Dumas brings the conversation about shared humanity, immigration, language, family and identity. CLICK HERE to learn more about her. BREAKFAST TOGETHER: Playing to the jet-lagged crowd, we're sponsoring a formal breakfast together to honor our Superintendent of the Year (to be announced early next week). And the evenings? All yours to be out on the town with colleagues (by the way, this change was borne out of a wonderful suggestion from several of you following last year's San Francisco gathering).
"NO, THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT": Our international schools have been too slow to respond to the magnitude and acuity of student and community mental health needs. Health equity is a key to student learning within diverse communities. So is building a culture of dignity.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS STEP UP: A panel discussion of current international school board members and school heads will debate both the foibles that compromise and key behaviors that maximize the board and senior leadership relationship. DIVERSE LEADERS: A majority of women leaders are speaking at this year's CONVERSATION.
SPOTLIGHT ON YOUNG LEADERS: The voices of young leaders are highlighted within panel discussions and "Deeper-Dive" sessions. Young leaders in our midst who will wake us out of inertia.
DEEPER-DIVES TAILORED TO YOU: Breakout sessions abound earlier in the conference, as you requested from last year. Two sessions, fourteen topics for each session to ensure maximum participation and conversation. Conversations to learn and more opportunities to interact with ideas.
AS IRAN HEATS UP: Never losing sight of the risk/gain calculus for school security and safety, we will host one of the most important and recognized Department of State leaders who will venture a risk analysis and approach to decision-making for keeping our students safe.
Consider the above a brief "taster" of many opportunities for you to engage and learn through CONVERSATION. This year's gathering is more open, with a formal breakfast celebration of leadership, lunch is provided and the evenings given over to friends and shared social time together as a world community. So, get organized, get registered, get your hotel room and get ready to be part of the ever-more-essential solidarity within our regional associations and AAIE. We need each other and this year we're hopefully bringing you and the world to New York City.
This Week's Five... 1. Benjamin Hardy shares a simple story that teaches a complex lesson. "Don't be so busy that you don't hear your inner voice when it speaks to you. Never let a goal to be accomplished become more important than a person to be loved. You can do more good than you think." 2. Leon Purton offers the "First Three Things You Need to Do When You Get Promoted to Leadership." Crucial advice on how to best transition from star contributor to a great boss and incredible leader. 3. "Education, ultimately, is transformative. And in doing so, it changes what you believe," Brandon Busteed recounts on "A Nobel Laureate's Mind-Blowing Perspective On The Ultimate Outcome Of An Education." 4.
We credit ACS Amman Superintendent Larry McIlvain for providing us with this brand new list of leadership books for 2020,compiled by Adam Grant, Organizational Psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. 5. Kate Taverner reflected on the Council of International School's inaugural Student Well-Being Workshop held in Bilbao, Spain this past November. Chief among her questions is this: "Why Don't We Have Mental Health First-Aiders?"
Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead Bob's Corner Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant– Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind–
-Emily Dickinson
All F3 poetry courtesy of Leading from Within (Jossey-Bass, 2007) by Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner, editors. Visit Center for Courage and Renewal for this and more excellent resources.
Bob Hetzel is a former Head of School at American Embassy School and Cairo American College. Here, he shares selected poetry and prose weekly.
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