"In education we are very comfortable using the term "middle leaders", rather than "middle managers", to talk about heads of department and heads of faculty. But are they really leaders? What distinguishes middle leaders from middle managers?
Middle managers - and senior managers for that matter - work to the specification of their leaders. Managers only become leaders when they inject something of themselves into their work. Managers sing the hymn sheets of others. Leaders do much more, they add verses, create harmonies and the best compose new scores. "
"From authors and actresses to CEOs and engineers: Women prove time and time again that they can perform any job just as efficiently and professionally as any man can."
Will Richardson gives us some things to think about in regards to the role leaders can play in change - modeling/supporting learning by being learners ourselves.
The article describes creative youth development in the larger contexts of arts education and of education reform.
Lastly, the article discusses policy, funding, and research needs and opportunities and provides questions for consideration.
Yet these two worlds largely exist apart, failing to address the reality that youth learn and grow—or fail to reach their potential—through influences and experiences in all spheres of their lives, including home, school, and the settings where they spend time outside of schoo
attention due to their high levels of youth engagement that contribute to substantial learning, enhanced critical thinking
such as heightened confidence and sense of agency
Decades of research findings link adolescent engagement, efficacy, and responsibility with opportunities for immersion and mastery, connection in a community of practice, embracing youth voice, and cultivating youth leadership with adolescent engagement, and non-school settings have emerged as crucial developmental and learning environments for youth
Throughout the United States, teen participants in CYD programs assert that the programs saved their lives, putting them on positive trajectories and away from gangs, drug use, crime, and ennui.
The creative process at the center of CYD programs contributes to profound personal growth for youth participants
And as they experience the creative process over an extended period, they learn that they can use it to express their own identities, understand and change the world around them, and connect to the greater human experience.”
community of practice of youth artists and their artist mentors, the paid, professional artists who comprise the full-time faculty. SAY Sí boasts a 100% rate of graduation and pursuit of higher education in a community with a 45% dropout rat
hese programs had a central belief in the ability of young people to achieve and grow artistically and personally through creative expression and skill building in the arts.
impact of arts-based youth programs in reducing risk factors and building protective factors in a study conducted in three American cities
She also catalogued characteristics of effective CYD programs, such as supporting risk within a safe space (
Teens develop intrinsic motivation as they immerse themselves and develop competence in a topic, connect with others who share this interest, and work with educators positioned as senior collaborators—