This document discusses educational leadership and building a culture of learning. It emphasizes that leadership is about process more than projects and building a shared vision, values, and goals. It also stresses the importance of communication, using multiple channels to share positive messages. It advocates for open learning environments that integrate school, community, and workplaces. Teachers are encouraged to think differently about their roles and integrate theory and practice through problem-based learning. Networks and sharing expertise across sectors can provide new perspectives and ideas to support innovation.

1. Educational leadership, teams
and creativity
Indian school leader delegation
May 2016
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2. Aki Puustinen
• M.A. (History, social science and
entrepreneurship)
• Headmaster at Muurame Upper
Secondary School
• CEO at Teamfactory ltd.
• Coordinator at Finnish
Entrepreneurship and social media
network
• Mentor principal at Institute of
educational leadership Jyväskylä Uni
• Member of Mobiluck project
• FinEduVR - Virtual reality project
coordinator
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3. Educational leadership and
teams
• More process than project (long life learning)
• Curriculum based / national core / local
freedom
• How to build learning culture ?
• Shared leadership and trust
• Open learning environments
• Workplace oriented pedagogy
• Medici phenomenon
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4. Process
• How to lead staffs learning process ?
• Regular meetings at institute
– Learning from others – dialogue
– Great stories
– Tutoring / mentoring / coaching
• Social networking
– Twitter, Instagram, Facebook ?
– Value of nonshared information is ZERO !
• Shared visio, values and goals
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5. How to build / brand culture ?
• Part of curriculum / 2016 e-Curriculum, no
paper version, available for everyone
• Lot of communication / multi channel
– Replay and do it again (22 times)
– Communication is leadership and leadership is
communication
– Positive messages
• ”Organization talk”
– Teachers’ meetings
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6. • Coordination
– Teams 1/10 flow team
– Pedagogy of team learning
– Doing together
• Resources
– Personal, time
– Gadgets, computers, social media
– Immaterial resources
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7. Shared expertise
• Working as a part of network (expertise)
• Community/network could be :
- resource of information /crowdsourcing
- new perspective / more ideas
- testing new ideas
- problem solvers
- think tank of innovations
• Different angles and different experiences
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8. Shared expertise
• Goal : try to build multisectoral approach
- young and old people
- People from different areas
• Members have to shared their knowledge and
skills enough to understand each other
• Takes time
• Outside of the school
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9. New learning environments
(physical, mental, social and technological environments)
Few questions : (Silander 2008)
• What different elements learning environment consist ?
•What sort of growth and development learning environments
should support ?
•What kind of skills and competences we want to support ?
•Why open learning environment ?
•What kind of environment boost learning ?
•What tools learners need for learning ?
•Learn to learn in different places ?
•Learning theory and methods ?
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10. •Many changes needed :
– Teachers` way of thinking
– Teaching and learning cultures
– How school structure support new learning ideas
– Local environment, companies, working life in
general
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11. Open learning environments
• Possibility to join society active / active
member of citizenship
• Open learning environments features :
– Free entrance to generate information,
techniques, publishing tools
– Free entrance to basic data and material / very
limited censored material in Finland
– Skills to use different devices and information
resources / digital citizenship
– Public authorities : openness, reliability,
transparency, low corruption rate
– Networking
– Open community and peer learning
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12. Workplace oriented pedagogy
(Tynjä, Kekäle, Heikkilä 2004)
•Theory and practice integrated. ”Theory must
be tested at working or real life”
•Real problems used (how to make a poster)
•Focus : less data processing and more skills
training
•Combining different learning methods
•Evaluation process: learning process and self
evaluation
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13. Connective model
(Tynjälä 2012, Guille & Griffiths 2001 & 2003)
•Cooperation of education and working life
•Connecting information
– Theoretical/practical
– formal (University degree, certificate, at school)
– nonformal (outside of the school company)
– informal (in everyday life)
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14. Four practices and steps :
• Thinking skills : theoretical information gives
us the way of criticise and understand practice
• Dialogical : cooperative progressive inquiry
and development of practices (work together)
• Crossing the borders / out of the box
• Using information and skills in different
environments
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15. Medici phenomenon
• 1300-1400 centuries Medicit and renaissance
• Ideas and concepts somewhere in between
• Three reasons :
– Mobility of people
– Integration of science
– Better calculating and arithmetic (maths)
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16. Medici method
Break down boundraries :
•Increase cultural diversity
•Learn different ways
•Test different perspectives
•Implement one idea to another place than used
to
•Set limits
•Combine things
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17. Medici method
• Diversify your team skills
• Work with various people, find difference
• Remember serendipity
• Find unusual combinations
• More ideas means more success
• Don´t affraid of failure (”intelligent failures”)
• Allocate enough resources for experiments
• Remember also leave networks
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