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Embodied Leadership:
Inspiration through Example
Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's
vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the
building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
-Peter Drucker
Welcome to the next leadership program from LHRIC and the Evolutionary
Leadership Institute (ELI). Each of you has made a commitment to living with
purpose and passion in service to the education of our children. This new offering
provides an opportunity to practice of art of leadership with practical tools and
exercises that support you and your work colleagues long after the completion of the
program.
What is a leader, but a wonderful model who serves as a beacon of inspiration to
others? Leadership is not about position or power. It is about living honestly in your
convictions and acting courageously. Rosa Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery,
Alabama. By a single act of courage, she inspired millions to act with their own
courage. So whether you are a teacher, or a technologist or an administrator, you are
a leader. For you have the ability to inspire others to their own greatness.
We offer you an opportunity to join us at four sessions from November through
March. Each of these sessions will be self-contained and is focused on an aspect of
being a leader. We work together in teams to explore and support each other in
experiencing each of these themes from the four aspects of leadership - mind, body,
heart and actions.
For those of you who participated in our spring leadership program, we have added
several new features to the program and enhanced others. For instance, your
feedback told us that being part of a learning community was extremely valuable.
Therefore, we are providing learning support between our four educational sessions.
This support consists of on-line material for reflection, practices for using the
principles in your work environment and on-line forums for support by our learning
coaches and your fellow program participants.
Finally, we are sending all program participants a special pre-program packet.
Included is a set of questions to assist you in developing your personal goals for the
program. We will also include reading material that will give you a taste of things to
come.
For those of you we will meet for the first time we look forward to welcoming you
and for those of you who were with us before we welcome you back to our
adventure of learning together.
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Why Should Teachers Attend a Leadership
Course?
Most classroom teachers don’t think
of themselves as leaders. If, as a teacher, you are curious about
your leadership role and your leadership potential then this program
is for you. Join other, like-minded, educators in an exciting exploration
of how taking on the role of “leader” can improve your
effectiveness and student performance.
Teacher involvement in leadership development is
essential to achieve our classroom and educational technology goals.
Unless classroom teachers are willing to lead their students and
their schools through great change, the potential of technology
to transform teaching and learning will not be realized. Webster’s
dictionary defines a leader as one who acts:
1. To guide or conduct in a certain course, or
to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the
way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively:
To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead
a pupil.
2. To draw or direct by influence, whether good
or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead
one to espouse a righteous cause.
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