EMPOWERING NEW GENERATION SCHOOL LEADERS

Good One! But.......most of the renowned schools across the globe are owned by corporate houses, realtors, business tycoons. Few educationists are directly, as leaders are taking up the education with their objectives and own point of view to the next higher level. They can be called torch bearer (marathoner). Their decisions may be called in the ambit of their visions. They can review the plunge taken by the pedagogy and as well as new leaders themselves. On the other hand, when we get into the situation we find that in these academia looking for pump & show, branding popularity and primarily commercial gain as their family business. Secondary, the leadership is not nurtured as educationist but more of as businessman/ businesswoman and it can be assumed as passing the baton in the family or to the referred undeserving candidate or a talkathoner'. A leader can be a business graduate but not all the business graduates can be leaders. In a such environment, 'save your skin' becomes a regular practice and the feedback rolls back to the Management/head of institute in an inaccurate and biased texture. Also any leader in such conditions found oneself in a very suffocating platform. Will these factors diminish the chances and scope of real champions and leaders. Is this a glass ceiling for emerging new school leaders?

Does it include discussion on how to overcome micro managing by school boards and Union objections? I see those two obstacles as major factors in changing the business of schools . Of course we all know about adequate funding for systemic change.

Margaret Blake and Ken Wallace