For and educator to create magic in the classroom, they have to be equally adept at being a VISIONARY, DESIGNER, ACTIONER & COLLABORATOR, for that is what the learner wants. As they graduate to doing this for the school, they may have to get help from others to ensure that at the most complex level, the best educator plays any of the 4 roles from the level of EXPERT, in terms of competence. In the classroom, they have to be all 4. Some of the magic for the educator, can be derived from going outside their normal network, outside their normal education colleagues, and on the TED.com video on the presentation, Chris does a good job of describing this...

1. Education Development Summit
16th August 2014
Presentation by Goodnews Cadogan
The Educator as a Visionary, Systems
Developer, Policy Implementer &
Collaborator With Stakeholders

2. Why Merlin?
Teach Teachers How To Create Magic

3. Merlin, The King’s Advisor
• “The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to
puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing
that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your
anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the
disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you
may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or
know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds.
There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why
the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing
which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be
tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of
regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a
lot of things there are to learn.”
• ― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

4. The Educator
• The Visionary
• Systems Developer
• Policy Implementer
• The Collaborator (Stakeholdership)
• Is it POSSIBLE?

5. The Educator As A Magician I
Visionary Systems Developer

6. The Educator As A Magician II
Policy Implementer Collaborator with stakeholders

7. The Visionary
• Daring dreamer
• Informed, but intuitive
• Challenges assumptions
• Invites dissent
• Creative destructionist
• Creator of the future
• Tolerant of error
• At ease with ambiguity

8. Situations That Call
For This Not For This

9. The Systems Developer
• Exquisite rigour
• Clear constraints
• Essential compliance
• + & - consequence
• Rigorous discipline
• Liberating structure
• Risk management
• Precision

10. Situations That Call
For This Not For This

11. The Policy/Process Implementer
• Fiercely resolute
• Execution
• Focused delivery
• Deliberate tracking
• Produces & delivers
• Learner/Parent delight
• Consequence Management
• Results-oriented

12. Situations That Call
For This Not For This

13. Collaborator with stakeholders
• Values diversity
• Has deep humility
• Has real compassion
• Diffused leadership
• Keen on stakeholder interests
• Defers towards empowerment
• Empathetic

14. Situations That Call
For This Not For This

15. (W)hole Leadership
Why is the W in brackets?
No leader can be whole, yet every leader contains the essence of integrative
leadership within him or her.
Life experiences, education, upbringing and personal style all cause us to
develop certain elements of leadership, while remaining less developed in
others. Different successful leaders therefore look different. This is why some
commentators suggest that there is no such thing as a universal leadership
framework.
International research demonstrates that there is indeed a unified framework
of best practices for leadership, but that no individual can be highly
developed in all facets of leadership. Instead, we are all only partially
developed as leaders – this is why Whole Leadership is per definition a team
activity.
As an individual we can thus only be (W)hole – with certain holes.

16. Collective Learning Points

17. Thank You
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