Guest author: Greg Bass, Superintendent of Schools – It is time to tell Rocky View Schools’ story. Many conversations over the last six months with all stakeholders, both internal and external to our system, reveal that some people are struggling existentially with what the transformation is all about. What do 21st C classrooms look like? What are we aspiring to achieve? What is different? In RVS, and specifically in my [ Read More ]
Guest Author – Norma Lang, Over the last several months we have heard alot of Alberta Ed-Speak about Generative Community Governance. SO… What exactly is Generative Community Governance? What value does this vague concept hold for Rocky View Schools? And, most importantly, how would we make Community Governance real and get it off the ground in our school communities? Last night WG Murdoch Principal Greg Roberts and Associate Principal Gladys Brown started their school [ Read More ]
Guest author, Greg Bass – As a continuation of my last post on 21st century leadership, this post proposes a new leadership paradigm consistent with our rapidly-changing global society. I have been visiting schools recently which includes meeting with the principal or administrative team and interacting with students in classrooms. I must say it is very refreshing to connect with students and dialogue with them as I always have been, [ Read More ]
Guest Author, John Burger – At the end of my first blog, I concluded that building general leadership capacity is dependent on a set of necessary conditions. This blog will explore one of those conditions, i.e. the opportunities and challenges in making data and evidence-informed decision-making a central component of leadership networked across all levels of the education system. The key question we’ll consider is, what should value-added data available [ Read More ]
Guest Author, John Burger – Effective educational leadership is one of my passions as a life-long educator. Counting the years I spent as an undergrad student at the Ohio State University and as a grad student at the University of Alberta plus years as a school and system administrator and as a manager in the Alberta Department of Education, I now have a total of 42 years to reflect on how [ Read More ]
Guest Author – Greg Bass, Superintendent of Schools – Much has been written about education for today’s learner. Articulating a vision of what we want our systems to create in terms of opportuntites for learners in our schools today is critical for success. In RVS, three years ago, after 13 months of collaboration, we launched our new three-year plan entitled “Engaging the 21st Century Learner”. We called for our organization [ Read More ]
