"Leadership has got to be inspired ... visionary. We need change agents. We need transformational leaders. Are these folks hard to come by? Yes they are, but we must "cultivate" them. We must cultivate the leaders we need, because THAT, more than anything else, makes or breaks any innovation that your going to try in schools."This paragraph describes how I have felt about our teacher laptop initiative from it's infancy. That it was/is about building relationships and cultivating leaders...creating change agents. We can't just do this by learning/teaching/showing the technology and it's tools. It's still more about pedagogy and shifting of paradigms. It's about learning to unlearn. It's hard work and it takes more effort than a 1/2 day Focus Group can provide 6 times a year.
"Can change happen from the bottom up?" I used to emphatically say YES! What has become clear to me is my answer today ... "only when it hits critical mass". How much farther is critical mass?
