Emergent Planning - Engage the whole community

"Bring planning and doing closer together... Emergent planning is where plans and actions emerge from experience and are adapting all the time... It is concentrated on improving teaching practice because it is known that this is what the the biggest impact on student learning"  - Short timelines, responsive, collaborative, team oriented, goal setting, observation, experimentation, assessing and reviewing, involving teachers. 

https://youtu.be/IGH5vL2j914

▶ Derek Sivers' TED Talk: "How to Start a Movement' - YouTube

Derek Sivers on TED (Transcript): Let's watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under 3 minutes, and dissect some lessons: A leader needs the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous. But what he's doing is so simple, it's almost instructional. This is key. You must be easy to follow!

Leadership of the Future

During residency at RRU we engaged in two focus group discussions about leadership and educational technologies.  The first was the World Cafe.  As we rotated from table to table discussing tough but provoking questions on the aforementioned topics, we pushed each others thinking and expanded our understanding of the implications of the issues.  The diversity around each table of gender, age, professional experiences, cultural background and global experience really brought a fourth dimension to the incredible insights.  To see our ideas depicted on the wall in both the World Cafe and our own session by Tracy Kelly, a talented artist, really helped the concepts take shape.  

I encourage you to take a moment with your team or faculty to host a World Cafe.  Select challenging, relevant questions to push your thinking.  Discuss problems that are not easily solvable.  Think big, and let your creative ideas bounce off those presented by others in your community.  Maybe those big unanswerable questions might seem a little more accessible when we take the time to think about them, together.