Next installment of my not so weekly podcast series. The podcast, Leadership In Our Schools is a reaction to a chapter in Seth Godin's manifesto Stop Stealing Dreams. I shared an excerpt from the chapter below. As always your thoughts are welcomed.
This
faux leadership is what we see again and again in traditional schools.
Instead of exposing students to the pain and learning that come from
actually leading a few people (and living with the consequences), we
create content-free simulations of leadership, ultimately reminding kids
that their role should be to follow along, while merely pretending to
lead.
Leadership
isn’t something that people hand to you. You don’t do followership for
years and then someone anoints you and says, “here.” In fact, it’s a
gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are
given authority.
And that’s something we can teach.
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