"Media and technology are central to how young people learn, socialize, and participate in the world. This makes it all the more important to consider how our student's digital lives can impact their social and emotional well-being. We've prepared this guide to help you navigate this world where digital citizenship and social and emotional learning are deeply intertwined."

"While traditional leadership styles accumulate a great extent of power at the top rungs, servant leadership puts other people's need first and shares power with them."

"What makes some leaders more adept? While many qualities might come to mind, six traits in particular define stronger leaders who empower everyone in the building to keep striving for greatness."

"we are one of the only educators that actively teaches every student in the school, and showcased the types of programming school librarians are capable of when fully supported by administration. Many of the school leaders were just not aware that a modern school library involves so much more than just checking out books to students."

Kay Oddone maintains a current website and regularly contributes to her blog. Interests include professional and connected learning and leadership.

Potter looks at the shift from a hierarchical model to one of inclusiveness across the learning community and that acknowledges the expertise of others in different fields.

"'Know thyself' - pithy self-help aphorism? Impossible task? Life-changing wisdom? What really is the value of reflection? And how is it effectively taught? In a world characterised by hurry, progress and efficiency, reflection requires a change of pace. It requires that we pause, breathe, and shift our future-orientation to dwell instead on what has been. This does not come naturally to many of the students in our classrooms (perhaps not even to ourselves)."

"How can you inspire teachers to keep or rekindle the joy of teaching that brought them to the profession? How can you maximize time and resources while also keeping great educators in the classroom?"

"Nurturing the conditions for what the authors call "conflict-agility," a mindset that aims to ease discord by "harnessing conflict in the service of improving educational outcomes and relationships," is an ongoing process-and a critical one because, the authors note, "dissension does not simply vanish if it is ignored or driven underground." When skilled leaders don't shy away from conversations about, for example, "critical race theory, institutional power relationships, implicit bias, and inequitable outcomes," they help build the school's capacity for improvement and communicate a willingness to honor and hear all voices in the school community."

" As a school librarian, I feel it is our responsibility to look into these programs and practices. Not only should we research these practices, but as school leaders, we should offer training on these practices to our teachers. Librarian Scott McGinley commented, "School librarians need to be proactive in providing professional development to staff, whether it be an informal grade level team meeting or something school-wide" (2021)."

"Our connections with others have an influence on our own behaviour. Social networks form in lots of different contexts, including at school and in the workplace. Social Network Analysis (SNA) is now offering insights into these important, but often invisible relationships."

"Better listening requires a shift from a reactive frame of mind to one which is more receptive. For school leaders, daily conversations can often be something that requires immediate action. "

A list of identified skill and aptitudes with support videos to explore these from different viewpoints.

"The major activity of this project was to investigate ways of assessing the 21st-century skills of critical thinking, creative thinking and collaboration."

"In response to increasing focus of 21st century education on the development of students' skills, the Centre for Assessment Reform and Innovation (CARI) at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has developed an evidence-based approach for teaching and assessing critical thinking, creative thinking and collaboration in the classroom."

"One of the challenges of being a Principal in a large school, apart from knowing every staff member, is to ensure that people know who they can talk to, to seek advice, report information and gain access to information. As a Principal you need to be able to switch your mindset very quickly as you deal with a multitude of information and calls on your time, knowledge and decisions each and every day. "

"Total Leader by thinking about leadership through the lens of productive change. There are five pillars that make up productive change. Purpose, vision, ownership, capacity, and support. Let's break these down in terms of school librarians and leadership with some examples of what the pillars look like in the world of libraries."

"Frequently Asked Questions About Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)"

"In this edition of Researching education: Five further readings, we are taking a look at some resources available on creative thinking. In these five readings, we've included a paper from the OECD on practical ways educators can foster creativity and critical thinking in the classroom; a report illustrating a framework on creative thinking; and a Teacher archive piece on creative, curious, and challenging thinking."