Cognia Leader Chat Episode 58: Time For Change with Anthony Muhammad and Luis Cruz
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May 18, 2023 Educators Anthony Muhammad and Luis Cruz share insights on collaborative systems, personal backgrounds, leadership in education, and building trust for change initiatives. They emphasize ethical and courageous changes in education systems post-COVID-19.
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Leadership Exists To Serve The Classroom
- Anthony Muhammad traces school leadership back to serving the classroom and supporting instruction.
- He argues the leader's primary job is to impact teaching so more students learn deeply and often.
Leadership Is A Distributed Skill
- Anthony Muhammad insists leadership is a skill, not merely a position people occupy.
- He urges distributing leadership because group IQ outperforms the heroic principal model.
Assemble A Guiding Coalition
- Luis F. Cruz advises assembling a guiding coalition of influential teachers to lead change with you.
- Give that team a one-sentence purpose and let them create positive peer pressure to shift adult behavior.