![]() The side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on education have been wide reaching … more students can learn anywhere and anytime. No longer can we consider schools as brick-and-mortar buildings. In order to move our schools into the future, leaders have to get to the balcony and understand where do we need to go and what do we need to leave behind.Īdam Phyall: Our school leaders’ most powerful mindset to develop is a new understanding of what schools have become. We need to go to the balcony even during movements of crisis. For the last few years, our work has kept us on the dance floor, making day-to-day decisions. We’ve talked a bunch in our district about the Ronald Hefitz message that sometimes you have to get off the dance floor and go to the balcony. Henry Turner: Empathy is the most critical skill, visionary thinking is the most important mindset. They need to listen and participate alongside others. ![]() Katherine Prince: To lead “into the future,” school leaders need to engage in imagining future possibilities and planning for multiple possible futures alongside others who will be involved in and affected by the co-creation of the future of learning. A dilution of values prevents us from seeking new paths-as the only value we find is the path we are on. The second core area was around values: What do we value? What do we hold sacred in education, or rather, in the purpose and potential of education? Perhaps not coincidentally, it is the strength of our values that allows us to keep visioning and exploring new and varied paths while always keeping true to our and education’s purpose. This frame of mind or mindset is key to allowing and becoming comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty. To lead into the future, to set up schools or learning environments where all students can learn requires a mindset of visioning and being open to possibilities. What are the skills and mindsets that our school leaders will need to lead our schools “into the future”? Read on for responses to these questions from Homa Tavangar and Will Richardson (Big Questions Institute), Jose Vilson (EduColor), Katherine Prince (KnowledgeWorks), Mark Sparvell (Microsoft), and Future Ready Schools advisers Adam Phyall and Henry Turner. I asked them two core questions about what mindsets will school leaders need to lead “into the future” and “for the future.” But these are just my thoughts.Īs an educational leader, I wanted to hear from education futurists, and strategists, and school leaders to see what they believe will be the skills and mindsets most needed in our education leaders and why. What will the skills and mindsets of our education leaders (the word “school” has purposefully been excluded) need to be to not only prepare us for this future but also to guide us into this uncertain future? Pedagogy will still be core but so, too, will be team development, decisionmaking, pivoting, empowering others, and being comfortable in uncertainty. While the past two years have been tumultuous, there is a good chance that our world will become even more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous from here on. The pandemic has demonstrated that we will need schools that can make quick, nimble, and effective decisions that reflect the changing environment. ![]() As our world gets more complex and more uncertain, our schools will need to respond. ![]() We have talked a lot during the pandemic of what the new normal of school and education should or could be, from learning ecosystems to greater student agency and voice, through to harnessing online environments including the Metaverse (read A whole new world: Education meets the metaverse for a quick update ).īut there is more to this equation than imagining or reimagining the future.
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