{"data":{"ID":486,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1415123788,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Learning To Lead In An Inquiry Driven School","Handle":"learning_to_lead_in_an_inquiry_driven_school","ShortDescription":"Based on my experiences as a principal intern at SLA I will facilitate a discussion around leadership practices that support student and teacher agency. We will discuss unlearning elements of  \u201ctraditional\u201d models and aligning leadership choices to core beliefs about the humanity of all members of the school community.","Description":"Conversation will center around what it means to be an educational leader who supports and encourages inquiry. The effect of counter-intuitive, compliance based practices upon core beliefs and how even folks with genuine good intentions are shaped by poor leadership practices (at multiple levels) will be a point of discussion. Participants will be encouraged to share their experiences with friction between established practices and core beliefs and I will describe my own experience and adjustments moving from more \"traditional\" educational models into the context of SLA. Central to the conversation will be the concept of leadership as a creative activity and how this creativity is made manifest: creating effective systems, re-imaging and re-constructing general initiatives into value-adds, problem solving, thought-partnering, and re-imaging the physical spaces of school. We will explore the concept of creativity as the activity that most honors person-hood while at the same time requiring the highest level of cognitive work.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Shared journals that lead to discussion and ultimately visual representation of a collective concept of inquiry driven leadership.","Presenter":["Aaron Gerwer"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy","PhillyPLUS"],"PresenterEmail":["agerwer@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":45,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":4}}