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This book is both a workbook and a bridge for those curious to
explore and get a flavour of what 'going beyond' resilience is all
about. It offers a map to understand how the meaning we give to
experiences and the choices we make on our journey in this life can
ultimately lead to a path of resilience and beyond, or to
ossification and long-term illness. The authors share personal and
research-based jewels and tools, which create stepping stones to
resilience and beyond. The book includes 9 areas for
transformational change and a range of exercises to facilitate and
enable the reader on their own personal journey of meaning and
beyond. The final chapter introduces the reader to the idea of
mystery, creating some glimpses of this, through felt experience.
We are not, as a species, very good at prediction. This you will
quickly realize as you read the first chapter of this book. Yet we
need prediction to live our daily lives-insurance, weather
forecasting, shipping, flight and other decisions depend on them.We
make predictions all the time and sometimes we get it
right.Strategic foresight is not about prediction. It is about
understanding and anticipating different futures. The future is
rarely a straight line from the past-it is subject to change and
uncertainty. What strategic foresight as a process does is seek to
understand why the future will be different from the past and what
the implication of these differences are. In this book, I provide
insights from forty years of consulting practice with organizations
from large (Oracle, TESCO, Heinz, Barclays, Conoco-Phillips),
medium (Debenhams, West Yorkshire Police, Millennium Copthorne) and
small (Elk Island Public Schools, Alberta Assessment Consortium,
Contact North/Contact Nord); for-profit and non-profit.
Teacher research in Canada: Although the job might be hard the
quest is worth it. It is about teacher power. We trust teachers and
we believe they have powerful knowledge, insight, and experience
that should be shared widely-and we mean to attempt that sharing.
We are a community, bound by an ethos: we care about children and
we want to help them learn. We also believe that teacher research
is important and that not enough of it is done. We hope to correct
that poverty. Our work is based upon three beliefs about research:
1) the WHAT is important-we need to seek and create knowledge and
that knowledge should be based upon our best inquiry; 2) the SO
WHAT is important. We are a community of critical action. We need
to consider how what we learn SHOULD be applied; & 3) the NOW
WHAT is important. We have to actually engage children in the best
ways we know how, with the best of what we have learned. This is
what The Canadian Journal for Teacher Research is all about. Our
goal is to transform teaching in Canada.
Our Ongoing Search to Understand and Enable the Practice of
Innovation to Drive Improved Organizational Performance The
Innovation Expedition was launched on April 1, 1991 at the Banff
Centre in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The Banff Centre is a world
class centre for the arts, leadership, innovation and mathematics.
It is also a gathering place for cross boundary imagineers. Since
that time, the Expedition (now a private company) has been engaged
in a global search for innovative ideas, individuals,
organizations, projects and products concerned with nurturing the
change leaders required to both build high performing organizations
in the new knowledge-
The point is simple: prediction is very difficult (if not
impossible) to get right. The best we can hope for from our
futurists is to draw attention to unfolding patterns and their
possible implications. That's it. And that is what this book does.
It was developed from a presentation given to a meeting of Fellows
of the Royal Society for Arts and Manufacturing (RSA) held in
Vancouver in 2011, and explores several unfolding patterns and
their possible implications. I seek here to offer an interpretation
of the significance of these developments in terms of unfolding and
overlapping 'S' curves, and suggest that there is an opportunity
for a new enlightenment or Renaissance, despite the disruption many
of the patterns I describe have on our understanding of the world
around us. This Renaissance can already be seen in some regions of
the world, and there are signs everywhere of the change it will
involve. Towards the end of the book, these examples are explored
to illustrate what the new Renaissance may be like.
We began, prompted by the late Chris Gonnet, Superintendent of
Grande Prairie Public Schools, to explore the question 'What Makes
a Great School?'in December 2010 at a meeting in Boston. We
concluded that it involved many inter-connected elements, but that
the key components were focused teacher leadership enabled by being
empowered and resourced to make a difference. Rethinking Leadership
sees evidence-informed practice as the fulcrum point for leveraging
school improvement, especially if it systematically supported
within a systematic way at the jurisdiction and provincial levels
to build school leadership capacity. We also concluded that the
framing conditions for the work of the school - the provincial/
state policies, curriculum requirements, financial arrangements,
assessment regimes as well as the policies of school boards and
districts - either enables or impairs the ability of a team within
the school to create a great school for all students.
This publication represents the first of a series of books that
will profile some of the forward thinking work being undertaken by
leading education researchers and policy experts focused on
transforming the face of public education and the future of
Alberta. The Co-creating a Learning Alberta book series is a
partnership with leading public policy thinkers and the Alberta
Teachers' Association that flows from the public lecture series
called "Learning our Way to the Next Alberta." Since its inception
in 2004, this lecture series has drawn over 5,000 participants and
continues to push our thinking about the hopes and possibilities
for the future of this province and is profiled at
www.learningourway.ca. In these public lectures, three questions
have come to dominate the conversations about the future of the
Alberta: What is the Alberta that the world needs to see? What kind
of Albertans do we need to become to get us there? and How will
leadership in learning help us become our best selves?
Winners or Losers; A Novella of Circumstance. A collection of short
stories and poetry that is sure to entertain and delight the
reader.
The Innovation Expedition describes Renaissance Leaders as high
integrity individuals with sensitive self-awareness and a passion
both for driving high performance in their organizations and for
helping to make their communities and the world a better place.
These leaders have a sense of history and an unusual capacity for
viewing the world holistically, for practicing systems thinking,
for injecting a global and a future's perspective into present
challenges, for honouring diversity, and for drawing on ideas and
best practices from diverse disciplines and economic sectors. They
also demonstrate an ability to take the input from these various
disciplines, synthesize it and integrate it for application to a
specific complex task. Finally, they have mastered the art of
demonstrating grace under pressure, and of inspiring others to have
the courage to collaborate and innovate in order to dramatically
improve organizational performance.
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