Eric Celeste Celeste

With rare exception, leaders are made, not born. That’s because “leadership potential is not something that some people have and other people don’t,” note authors James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner (2016). “It’s more broadly distributed than traditionally accepted views suggest.” Everyone has the capacity to lead, they say, […]

Policymakers and education professionals have emphasized the importance of literacy in a global economy many times this century — in no instance more directly than when a young U.S. senator from Illinois addressed the American Library Association in June 2005: “Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy […]

In 2011, Learning Forward revealed its third iteration of Standards for Professional Learning — seven characteristics of professional learning that lead to effective teaching practices, supportive leadership, and improved student results. The 2011 standards (see p. 11), built on those issued in 1994 and revised in 2001, combine decades of […]