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THE EIGHT NEW ATTRIBUTES OF MODERN EDUCATIONAL LEADERS A new breed of educational leader is emerging from all parts of the globe. It’s a leader that fully understands the fundamental challenges to traditional teaching and learning that the new interconnected, networked world is creating. It’s a leader that also sees the amazing opportunities that abundant access to information, people, and technologies is bringing to all of our learning lives. And it’s a leader who is helping to create a new vision for her schools, changing thinking and practice in profound new ways to serve the dramatically different learning future that her students are stepping into. Eight new attributes that effective leaders must now develop to best serve teachers and students in the Modern Learning world In short, it’s a different breed of leader for a different age. In this whitepaper, we look at the eight new attributes that effective leaders must now develop to best serve teachers and students in the Modern Learning world (as we’ve defined it here.) While many of these characteristics are now required for leaders in every field, we cover a number that are unique to education. While some have always been important to effective leadership, we discuss how these now have been enhanced and must be rethought for modern contexts. The eight attributes of modern educational leaders are: 1. They are connected to and engaged in online networks. 2. They are makers with (and without) technology. 3. They are innovators and support innovation. 4. They are models for learning both online and off. 5. They see curriculum as strategy. 6. They facilitate an “ever-evolving” vision for teaching and learning in their schools, with (or without) technology. 7. They are literate in modern contexts. 8. They know “learning is the work.” M o d e r n L e a r n e r M e d i a P a g e 1
None of these are necessarily easy to achieve, especially for those who are products of and are currently working in traditional learning institutions. By and large, schools do not operate along these lines, focused instead on delivering an age-old curriculum geared toward age-old outcomes measured by age-old assessments in a deeply standardized way. But modern leaders, those who recognize the sea changes that are underway, understand that age-old practices must now change in fundamental ways. These attributes are places to start. ATTRIBUTE #1: MODERN EDUCATIONAL LEADERS ARE CONNECTED TO AND ENGAGED IN ONLINE NETWORKS. THE SHIFT: The best, most current, most relevant ideas for teaching and learning today are no longer in books and magazines; they’re online in blogs, Twitter streams, YouTube videos and more. If you want to get a sense of the latest thinking about education from some of the most inspiring and effective modern educational leaders in the world right now, don’t click on over to Amazon.com to find them. Instead, read their blogs and their Twitter streams, or watch the YouTube videos they’re sharing of the work going on in their schools. People like Justin Tarte, the director of curriculum and support in the Union (MO) Schools, or Principal Jessica Johnson at the Dodgeland (WI) Elementary School. Chris Kennedy, the superintendent of schools for the West Vancouver, British Columbia district, or Darcy Moore, a deputy principal for the New South Wales, Australia department of education. They are just a few of thousands of administrators from all parts of the globe that are sharing and connecting online, waiting for you to join in the fun. Thousands of administrators from all parts of the globe are sharing and connecting online, waiting for you to join in the fun. M o d e r n L e a r n e r M e d i a P a g e 2
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