Transformation from the Middle by Catherine Ho (DCB) https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39 Towards a 21st Century Education en-us 2022-06-13 22:05:56 UTC 2025-11-01 14:02:45 UTC hello@padlet.com Who is Cat? transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221709272 IB educator who believes in education for a "better and more peaceful world".

Teach IBDP Economics

HOD in multiple schools

Doctoral candidate in University of Illinois, Department of Educational Policy and Organizational Leadership. Area of research - Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship Education

Mother of 2 GenZers!]]> 2022-06-15 07:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221709272 Beginning a Dialogue transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221711409 Disclaimer - I do not have answers!
a. What is the current context?
b. What is transformation from the middle? Why are middle managers key to change?
c. What are possible first steps?
d. Let's keep the conversation going....]]> 2022-06-15 07:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221711409 What has changed since the late Sir Ken Robinson's Ted Talk? transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221715722 2022-06-15 08:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221715722 Sir Ken Robinson's key points - transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221728074 1. Diversity not conformity
2. Curiosity not compliance 
3. Creativity not standardization (testing)

Education is seen as an industrial process rather than a human system.

Role of Education Leadership is not command and control but climate control - a climate that encourages diversity, curiosity and creativity.

Teachers are the lifeblood of schools

Where there is no learning, there is no education.]]> 2022-06-15 08:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221728074 The Problem: Using a 20th century system/imagination to create a 21st century education transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221749083 https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23982/women-machinists]]> 2022-06-15 08:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221749083 Do not wait to be given permission to lead! transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221754105 What is leadership?
"Activating a community"
"Having followership" - ask any GenZ
"Climate control" ]]> 2022-06-15 08:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221754105 Transformation from the Middle transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221760240 "Ask the bus-drivers!" (Herrmann, M. June 8, 2022)]]> 2022-06-15 08:57:38 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221760240 1. Create Psychological Safety transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221766152 Amy Edmundson's work on psychological safety is considered foundational principle for all effective teams

1. Frame problem in terms of learning, not execution.
2.Acknowledge fallibility or inadequacy
3. Model curiosity

Where there is no psychological safety, there will be default to maintaining the status quo (don't rock the boat).]]> 2022-06-15 09:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221766152 Radical Re-Think of Leadership transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221779583 2022-06-15 09:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221779583 Yet....reality is schools are high on BMI and have not changed much transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221784411 Take the Bureaucratic Mass Index (BMI) survey]]> 2022-06-15 09:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221784411 Quotables - transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221800299 2022-06-15 09:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221800299 Quotables - transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221801850 2022-06-15 09:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221801850 Prevalent Model of School transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221808989 Top down, uni-directional, dumbing down of middle managers, reducing them to messenger boy/girl]]> 2022-06-15 09:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221808989 2. Adopt Human Centered Design Approach to All Problem Solving transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221813132 Place Human Flourishing at the Centre! ]]> 2022-06-15 10:03:36 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221813132 3. Remember "Less is More" transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221814384 Do not forget that subtraction, not addition is a viable solution!

Example - Anna Keichline’s K Brick versus solid blocks. She patented the design in 1927.]]> 2022-06-15 10:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221814384 Humanocracy transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221837295 2022-06-15 10:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221837295 Psychological Safety transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221839705 2022-06-15 10:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221839705 Exercises for Building Psychological Safety transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221851368 2022-06-15 10:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221851368 Developing Team Norms transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221851582 https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/the-real-world-guide-to-team-norms/]]> 2022-06-15 10:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221851582 Human Centered Design Free Course transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221851881 Worthwhile to learn as a team - then to adopt such a framework to solve a problem that you all own.]]> 2022-06-15 10:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221851881 4. Keep it all Coherent! transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221853774 How do individuals' values, work and talents pull in the same direction as the mission and vision of the organization?]]> 2022-06-15 11:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221853774 Exercises for Building Coherence transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221855322 1. What are your top 3-5 values
2. What part of your work allows you to live out these values?
3. What part of your work detracts you from living these values?
4. What could be done to ensure 2 happens more?]]> 2022-06-15 11:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221855322 Because we need to stop "playing school" and drive radical change transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221869333 2022-06-15 11:22:41 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221869333 What Bureaucracy can bring about... transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221876718 2022-06-15 11:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221876718 Because we need to get Cracking on SDG 4.7 transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221958406 2022-06-15 13:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221958406 If you'd like to be part of transformation from the middle, leave your name, contact and 1 idea you want to pursue in comments below. We need to do this together to make it work. transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221960719 2022-06-15 13:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2221960719 Complete the sentence - I am excited to get up and go to school each morning because I get to... transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2222323823 2022-06-15 20:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2222323823 What would it take to get you excited about waking up in the morning to go to school to be a transformative middle manager/ HOD? transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2222325154 2022-06-15 20:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2222325154 What the BMI consist of transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2222333473 2022-06-15 21:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2222333473 Transformation from the Middle transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2227804439 Middle Managers are the glue and storehouse of information. They need to be released to lead innovation and change.]]> 2022-06-22 12:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2227804439 Tools for Building Psychological Safety transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2228204708 2022-06-22 22:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2228204708 The Fearless Organization transformationfromthemiddle https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2228205799 2022-06-22 22:06:18 UTC https://padlet.com/transformationfromthemiddle/2komu94m7rp5xs39/wish/2228205799