F3 Friday's Five Ideas for the Future
February 28, 2020
Continuing the Conversation*:
–1– A Cohort/Colleague Model A way to know you are not alone and we're in this thing together. AAIE is prototyping a new concept for leadership learning by offering Masterminds for International School Leaders starting in March 2020. –2– Your Board Chair and Trustees We know the need for human connection is innate and building strong relationships is learned. The key teaming relationship between the head of school and board chair is so critical to the success of your school. Again, critical. David Chojnacki and Rick Detwiler continue their governance development work, focused on 10 key criteria and leadership behaviors that predict success for the head of school and board chair team. The strength of the relationship guides teaming across the school community. Join us for the NESA/AAIE seminar in Athens, Greece. –3– Summer Session: Social and Emotional Wellbeing, the Essential for Student Achievement: Leading from Response to Prevention All schools are struggling to meet the social, emotional, and physical needs of their students. Increased anxiety, higher levels of depression, the continual rise of self-harm, suicidal ideation, and harmful sexual behaviors online and in person are some of the stories being shared across the international school community. –4– The Leadership Seminar for Overseas Principals (LSOP) Whether listening to the Diversity Collaborative, joining Fran Prolman for Naming and Addressing the Biases for Women in Leadership or participating in Diversity Conversations About New Pathways to Leadership–unmistakable is that we have work to do.
In partnership with what is an Office of Overseas School initiative, we are committed to bringing talented young leaders, representing a rich definition of diversity into a summer session, affectionately called "LSOP" to promote the future of our international schools. Leadership learning for our school heads of the future.
This summer will be the second cohort and all participants are invited to our AAIE CONVERSATION 2021 in Washington D.C. to continue their leadership learning (the first cohort will also be invited to AAIE 2021). Are we getting results? Yes, two members of the first cohort have been hired into the headship, representing diversity.
Now on to Friday's Five... 1. 2. Respect as a leader of a new group of people is earned, no matter what your background is or what degree you have. Bobby Powers shares his own story of adjusting to his first leadership role and what 5 things earned him respect as a manager. His first leadership role was at Target. We all paid our dues as well. 3. This week, Dr. Derrick Gay appeared on The Enrollment Spectrum Podcast, where he discussed specific challenges of the word 'diversity' and strategies to reframe in order to advance equity and inclusion. Give it a listen here. 4. Our single most important task as leaders is recruiting fine and accomplished people for our schools. We are not batting 1000 when it comes to recruiting, and likely never will. Yet focusing on workplace and interpersonal behaviors is important. Here's a guide from Inc. Magazine on "Behavioral Job Interviews: What They Are, How They Work, and How to Ask Behavioral InterviewQuestions That Identify the Perfect Candidate." 5. Like most principals, Dr. Sherry Kijowski is constantly thinking about school improvement. "For us, the next big thing involved taking advantage of our space through partnerships that expand learning opportunities for students in our school and others in the community." * Just as we are sensitive to the challenges of the coronavirus concerns–F3 will only focus on leadership learning and we'll ensure you receive our every-other-day coronavirus update as a separate publication.
Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead Bob's Corner The Uses of Not
Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where the wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pot's not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is is in the use of what isn't. –Lao Tzu
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. Every Leader Needs to Navigate These 7 Tensions
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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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