Transformative Leadership: Leading from the Middle in Education
Explore the concept of Leading from the Middle in education, focusing on building middle leadership capacity to drive transformative change and improve student outcomes. Delve into components of leadership, storytelling to analyze failure for learning, and coping with failure through insightful quotes.
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Failing Miserably/Failing Successfully Leading from the Middle Rose Asera Robert Gabriner Benjamin Gamboa
Introductions What is Leading from the Middle? Fullan s Five Components of Leadership What do We Mean by Failing Successfully: Ben s Story Storytelling: Analyzing Failure to Learn about Success Coping with Failure
What is Leading from the Middle? Building middle leadership capacity within the colleges to promote transformative change to improve student outcomes; Middle leaders are faculty, staff and administrators-- deans, directors, chairs, coordinators; Project-based learning in college teams; One-year academy with three components: three-2 day retreats at Kellogg West; a LFM coach to work with team; regular online activities to maintain focus on the objectives
Fullans Five Leadership Components Moral Purpose Relationships Understanding Change Evidence Coherence
What do we mean by failing successfully? Ben s Story
Storytelling: Analyzing Failure to Learn about Success Choose a partner to identify a failed project to share with the group. Discuss the following: How did you get past your personal failure feelings? What did you learn from the failed project? Report outs from the dyads Group discussion
Leaders Coping with Failure Which Quote Would You Choose? 1. I never lose. I either win or learn. 2. You don t learn to walk by following rules; you learn to by doing and by falling over. 3. Rule #51: Sometimes you re wrong. 4. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Leaders Coping with Failure II Which Quote Would You Choose? 5. I tell my students that to make Aioli sauce requires seven steps and you will fail at least once and probably often. but to fail enables you to learn the right way. So they are prepared to fail and ultimately succeed. 6. People have to get comfortable with trying things, and failing, and having the ability to see things through over periods of years, not periods of weeks, or months, semesters. In between all that, there is a lot of messiness.
Leaders Coping with Failure Which Quote Would You Choose 1. I never lose. I either win or learn. (Nelson Mandala) 2. You don t learn to walk by following rules; you learn to by doing and by falling over. (Richard Branson) ? 3. Rule #51: Sometimes you re wrong. Leroy Jethro Gobbs (NCIS) 4. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. (Anon)
Leaders Coping with Failure II Which Quote Would You Choose? 5. I tell my students that to make Aioli sauce requires seven steps and you will fail at least once and probably often. but to fail enables you to learn the right way. So they are prepared to fail and ultimately succeed. (Rhea Dellimore, Culinary Instructor, CCSF) 6. People have to get comfortable with trying things, and failing, and having the ability to see things through over periods of years, not periods of weeks, or months, semesters. In between all that, there is a lot of messiness. (Eloy Oakley, President, Long Beach City College)
Thank You! Rose Asera Robert Gabriner Ben Gamboa roseasera@gmail.com gabriner@sfsu.edu bgamboa@craftonhills.edu For more information about Leading from the Middle: Contact Robert Gabriner (gabriner@sfsu.edu) http://rpgroup.org/projects/leading-middle-academy
