Some of you may have heard me talk about how the world, Wisconsin, and the expectations of public education have changed. Seth Godin's blog post does a good job of explaining some of the challenges of the changing context.
Leaders in public education need to understand these changes. If we continue to improve the current system, we will have failed. It is not reform, but reinvention, that we need to pursue.
This means that leaders need to have strong communication skills. Today, leadership is not about technical skill. It is not about being good at issuing orders. It is about creating contexts for groups to come together to solve problems. Problems which do not have one clear answer.
In this more complex era, leaders need to be able to develop good relationships. They need to create a context of trust. The context is chaotic. Leaders who learn how to create a context to let order emerge from the chaos, will succeed in leading the public education reinvention our students need.
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