All Blog Posts Tagged 'leadership' (5)

Just got to a book last night which has been on my "anti-library" shelf for several months--Peter Senge's The Necessary Revolution (2008)--which I highly recommend. Here's an article from Business Week's "Innovation" section which reviewed the book last summer and spurred me to acquire a copy of it. The following paragraphs from the book's first chapter, "A Future Awaiting Our Choices," provid… Continue

IBM's Smarter Planet Series is now into its third conceptual presentation, Traffic: Roads to a smarter planet. The Series started with Planet: A mandate for change is a mandate for smart, which was followed by Energy: Smarter power for a… Continue

This map shows areas of high poverty in Chicago along with locations of poorly performing schools. It also shows locations of universities. I encourage you to read the blogs… Continue

Today was another monumental day at school. For the first time, students were brought together to create the policies and consequences which they will follow in the upcoming year in the areas of attendance, lates, cellphone use and leaving school during the day. Areas, which up until now, had been the sole domain of the teachers and, usually, the principal. When I arrived to take over the principalship almost 4 years ago, attendance was an issue particularly relating to students arriving for sc… Continue

(The following statements were excerpted from PeaceJam.org.) The mission of the PeaceJam Foundation is to create a new generation of young leaders committed to positive change in themselves, their communities and the world through the inspiration of Nobel Peace Laureates. PeaceJam was conceived on the gritty, gang-infested streets of northwest Denver in the summer of 1994. Suvanjieff, an artist, musician, and relentless dreamer was talking with Latino gang me… Continue