Systems RE-Imagined

If you know youths aged 14 & up who will be in the Memphis, TN, Area on November 9, 2024, this Youth Leadership Conference is the place for them to be.

There is a $15 fee, but it’ll be well worth it to experience and collaborate in a completely youth-led event!



https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rotary-district-6800-youth-leadership-conference-tickets-1026459687557

This quote appears to originate from Albert Schweitzer. To the extent that I think of myself as a leader, I prioritize leading by example.

I don’t know that I agree that examples are twice as valuable as advice, but I certainly agree that it is at least of equal value.

How many leaders are out here currently prioritizing the behaviors they consistently model? It’s time to leadership.

At the time Howard Gardner shared his research regarding multiple intelligences in 1993, it was still widely held that there was only 1 way to be “smart,” intelligent, gifted, etc. The thinking was that one was either generally (“g” or “g factor”) intelligent, or one was not.

Gardner’s research was conducted on individuals who had sustained brain damage. In that research, he discovered evidence of something he had proposed about 10 years prior: There are different ways one can be intelligent. Gardner’s computer analogy: It was long thought that the human brain was like 1 big computer that was either good or not good. Instead, it’s more like a network of 8-12 smaller computers that any of which could be more (or less) excellent.

Multiple intelligence is not the same as learning style or preference, but it is in the same tax bracket. As a student, how often were you given, in school, an opportunity to shine brightly in non-traditional ways? As a teacher, how often have you given students varying modalities?

It’s time to RE-Imagine education.

Establish and work to maintain a workplace culture in which the “energy” high AND positive.