Mind Lab - Week 7 - Leadership

Flipped preparation (required):

Read the short extract from Alma Harris' article, a section titled 'Teacher Leadership and Distributed Leadership' (Leadership Week 7 Media). To prepare for the class session, think about how/if distributed leadership is enacted in your school.

Possibly the Think Tanks - although they have a leader, there are representatives from across the school who are at the very least responsible for feeding back to the teams and taking their concerns(?) to the Think Tank meetings. There needs to be the culture where anyone could take up the leadership of anything they feel the need to progress with, or they feel they have expertise in, without being questioned - why are you doing it? etc . Wouldn’t it be great if everyone we worked with felt that they wanted to put the time and effort into our organisation!! We could all share the responsibility instead of it being on any one person's shoulders all of the time. Problem comes when something goes wrong and someone needs to be held accountable. Where does the buck stop if there is no defined leadership path / roles?

In Class: Use Twitter to find tweets that are relevant to your change initiative
I set up Tweet Deck (which I haven't used since Chapter Chat) to view my tweets more effectively. Nead to search some Leadership Styles hashtags.

Twitter puts everyone on the same level - no hierarchy -

Twitter #LeadershipSyles

https://ceoptions.com/best-leadership-style-enhances/
https://medium.com/@Abocco/leading-into-leadership-styles-4b596af41fbd

In Class: What is a wicked problem that you have in your practice? Create a mess map on a sheet of A4 paper









Reflect on what ways could you use Online discussions in your classroom.

We have used online discussions through Chapter Chat (twitter) and NZReadaloud (edmodo). Both are reliant on many teachers working together and the same level, 
Within class we use blogs for online discussion through commenting and feedback / feedfoward the students give each other on their work.

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