Education Development Summit 16th August 2014

Presentation by Goodnews Cadogan

The Educator as a Visionary, Systems Developer, Policy Implementer & Collaborator With Stakeholders

Why Merlin? Teach Teachers How To Create Magic

Merlin, The King’s Advisor

• “The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”

• ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

The Educator

• The Visionary

• Systems Developer

• Policy Implementer

• The Collaborator (Stakeholdership)

• Is it POSSIBLE?

The Educator As A Magician I

Visionary Systems Developer

The Educator As A Magician II

Policy Implementer Collaborator with stakeholders

The Visionary

• Daring dreamer

• Informed, but intuitive

• Challenges assumptions

• Invites dissent

• Creative destructionist

• Creator of the future

• Tolerant of error

• At ease with ambiguity

Situations That Call

For This

Not For This

The Systems Developer

• Exquisite rigour

• Clear constraints

• Essential compliance

• + & - consequence

• Rigorous discipline

• Liberating structure

• Risk management

• Precision

Situations That Call

For This

Not For This

The Policy/Process Implementer

• Fiercely resolute

• Execution

• Focused delivery

• Deliberate tracking

• Produces & delivers

• Learner/Parent delight

• Consequence Management

• Results-oriented

Situations That Call

For This

Not For This

Collaborator with stakeholders

• Values diversity

• Has deep humility

• Has real compassion

• Diffused leadership

• Keen on stakeholder interests

• Defers towards empowerment

• Empathetic

Situations That Call

For This

Not For This

(W)hole Leadership

Why is the W in brackets?

No leader can be whole, yet every leader contains the essence of integrative

leadership within him or her.

Life experiences, education, upbringing and personal style all cause us to

develop certain elements of leadership, while remaining less developed in

others. Different successful leaders therefore look different. This is why some

commentators suggest that there is no such thing as a universal leadership

framework.

International research demonstrates that there is indeed a unified framework

of best practices for leadership, but that no individual can be highly

developed in all facets of leadership. Instead, we are all only partially

developed as leaders – this is why Whole Leadership is per definition a team

activity.

As an individual we can thus only be (W)hole – with certain holes.

Collective Learning Points

Thank You

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