Episode 401

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7th Feb 2023

An ADL Roundtable

This season's roundtable discussion featuring podcast host Dr. Grant Chandler and his season four guests, Penny Brockway and Katherin Mohney, begins with a great conversation thinking about the theoretical construct we call "Accomplishment-Driven Leadership." Having explored this concept in season 3, we'll spend season 4 talking about the paradigm shifts we make on our journey to be Accomplishment-Driven Leaders.

Let's first take a look at that definition:

Accomplishment-Driven Leaders (Chandler 2022) understand how to steer a district, building or classroom closer to its strategic vision. They embrace the responsibility of expecting and ensuring adult-capacity building in all professional areas aligned to student need, student learning growth, and the desired destination itself. They understand and value the complexity of the learning journey not only for themselves but for those in their charge as they appreciate its impact on their ability to prove to each student that they are distinctive & irreplaceable.

The Arenas of ADL are a powerful set of competencies that Accomplishment-Driven Leaders need to nurture and grow those within their charge, and steer them collectively to the desired destination. Accomplishment-Driven leaders use these arenas as they navigate a path forward that will take courage and leadership the likes of which we haven’t seen before at the levels of expertise we need to get us there.

Accomplishment-driven leaders understand how adults learn and grow. They utilize The Leader’s Compass, the metacognitive growth model for building capacity in themselves and in others.

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About the Podcast

The Wheelhouse

Exploring Teaching, Learning, & Leading

The Wheelhouse exists to create an inclusive community of empowered educators who believe that, together, we can disrupt the transactional herding nature of schooling to create districts, schools, and classrooms where each student feels confident, optimistic, capable, well-supported, and emboldened to be and to become who they are meant to be.

Guiding Principles
1. We are steadfastly committed to each learner and each educator believing they are distinctive and irreplaceable.
2. We believe that educating our children should be a humanizing, relational, and transformational endeavor. All else is secondary.
3. We believe that dignity is a birthright; it is not earned. Each child deserves a future filled with open doors and unlimited possibilities. Our work is in service to this central aspiration.
4. We believe that each human life is unique and precious; as such we are compelled to remove aspects of schooling that disregard any student’s dignity.

About your host

Grant Chandler

Along with Kathleen Budge, Grant A. Chandler, Ph.D. is the author Powerful Student Care: Honoring Each Learning as Distinctive & Irreplaceable (ASCD, 2023). Chandler brings over 35 years of practical experience as a high school teacher, building and central office administrator, higher education dean, professional learning director in an outreach department at a large research university, and as a technical support provider and executive coach. He is currently the president and chief executive officer of Students Matter. Since 2005, Chandler has provided technical support to over 350 districts in developing systemic approaches to solving student learning issues and was recognized by the US Department of Education as a national expert in small learning communities. He has designed and led professional learning experiences at many levels of the K-12 arena and for many different audiences and has conducted numerous workshops at national, state, and regional conferences. His consultancies include boards of education, state and regional service providers; as well as individual schools and local districts across the United States and internationally. In his spare time, he’s writing a children’s book and raises standard poodles for animal assisted activities. Contact him at grantchandler@ourstudentsmatter.org or www.linkedin.com/in/grant-a-chandler.