I have worked extensively with business leaders, and more recently with educational leadership. In fact, I have identified 16 leadership groups that have an impact (or need to have an impact) on student performance. This Leadership Framework includes Leaders from the Educational Sector, Public Sector, and Private Sector. Everyone is a Leader, and everyone has a leadership role to play.

It’s called “Active Engagement–a strategic solution to increase student performance, and reduce the high school dropout rate.” It is designed to create a teaching and learning environment where everyone is engaged–actively engaged–not just a few students. It is a solution that is “slightly larger” than the problem.

You call leaders “inspired”. I call them “engaged”–actively engaged. My definition of leadership is: “The ability to take others from where they are now, to where they need to be.” This can only happen in school if we elevate our education system to the same level as our social system, our political system, economic system, legal system, and all the other systems that make this country great.

At present, education is a second tier system. We must take our education system from where it is now, to where it needs to be. Leadership is the answer.

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