Is this leadership?

The other day I read an post by Russ Goerend (@RussGoerend), which raised a ques­tion by mak­ing this state­ment: Teach­ers aren’t lead­ers [Self-fulfilling Prophe­cies]). Russ wrote this post in response to a con­ver­sa­tion he had with Scott Mcleod, where Dr. Mcleod stated that teach­ers are not “lead­ers and pol­i­cy­mak­ers who have influence/power.” This state­ment was in ref­er­ence to an event in Iowa where Will Richard­son was meet­ing with a hand­picked group of ‘edu­ca­tional lead­ers’ (which appears to include two grad­u­ate assis­tants, not sure how much power/influence grad­u­ate assis­tants have, but that is nei­ther here nor there). I com­mented on the post and tweeted about it, More >