Led in partnership with myself and retired Superintendent Bev Rundell, teacher leaders have been encouraged throughout the series to anchor an innovative practice through the Spirals of Inquiry (2015). So far, this series has resulted in The series is designed to provide teacher leaders the opportunity to develop leadership skills in ways that are, as suggested by Breakespear (2017), “embedded (happening within the context of work) personal (owned and driven by the leader while impacting on mindsets and identity) and continuous (so there is no end to leadership growth)” (p. During an eighteen-month period, thirty educators meet on eight Saturday mornings. This initiative aimed to build capacity in teacher leaders. Perhaps part of the answer can be found in the Okanagan-Skaha School District’s “Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn” Project. How do we embrace the unique stories of every student? Where do we find time to understand how individual learners “tick” while making sure we all have our clocks set to the same position: minute hands pointing towards the same competency-focused learning intentions? Each timepiece tells its own, unique story. As a horologist, an individual who studies clocks and timekeeping, McLemore understands that there are no two antique clocks with the exact same mechanical structure. McLemore is passionate about and skilled at fixing antique clocks. What begins as a piece of investigative journalism, quickly shifts into a nuanced character study of McLemore: a colourful, eccentric, and quite possibly brilliant individual. McLemore who had contacted Reed, encouraging him to come to his town to research an alleged murder.
In this most downloaded podcast of all time, S-TOWN reporter Brian Reed travels to Woodstock, Alabama to interview John B. Recently, I listened to the NPR podcast S-TOWN (2017). Meeting over eight Saturday mornings over the past year and a half, thirty educators have committed to being part of this project. How do education leaders best support building capacity while validating the work of both formal and informal leaders in their systems? In this article, Todd Manuel will describe a leadership series run in School District 67 that emphasizes leadership as a shared responsibility, not as a rank. Transformative Educational Leadership Journal, ISSUE: May 2018 | TELjournal.ca