Sustainable leadership promotes cohesive diversity and avoids aligned standardization of policy, curriculum, assessment, and staff development and training in teaching and learning. It fosters and learns from diversity and creates cohesion and networking among its richly varying components.

Key Question:
What are processes that promote interaction and cross-pollination of ideas when it comes to obstacles facing schools today?

Participant Responses:

• Weaving into each and every encounter, real professional listening and reflective discussions.
• Peer coaching – PLC’s.
• Good question. In my world we’re all about trying to get the above-maligned alignment. I agree.
• PLC or similar opportunities to share. Deliberate networking opportunities in district level meetings.
• Cross-district collaboration.
• Provide opportunities for staff development.
• Conversations, tell the story, conservations, revise the story, etc.
• PLC’s – teacher leadership teams.
• Time and “permission” for sharing challenges and successes.
• Establish a culture that is non-judgmental… seeking to learn.
• Keep asking questions to analyze and get to root causes rather than jumping to a standardized, band-aid answer.
• Key questions and time to reflect.
• Force the debate in safe environments.
• Build trust based on vulnerability.
• Celebrate and share diversity in teaching, assessment and management. Look at results – same learning for all – not sameness in getting to results.