Topics

•  Providing life-giving leadership to Gen-Z

• Markers of Gen-Z

  • Dr. Elmore spent a large majority of our morning giving us a lot of insight about the different generations and ways we generally see these people. He really focused on Gen-Z since so many of our students and now, new teachers, fall into this generation.

• Dr. Julian Rotter: external vs internal locus of control

• Habitudes of leaders

Major Points

• Greatest questions about GenZ

  • Will pandemic produce distress or growth?

  • Will they win or lose the battle for mental health?

  • What narrative will they carry into the future?

• Shifts Gen-Z brings

• What makes leadership hard?

  • Our world is full of speed, convenience, entertainment, nurture, entitlement

  • Consequently, kids can assume: slow is bad, hard is bad, boring is bad, risk is bad and labor is bad.

Importance to Teacher Leadership

• It's really important to know who you're leading. By examining the paradigms and experiences of the different generations, new leaders are more aware of who they are leading.

• Similarly, examining what exceptional leaders have already done well gives new leaders a guide for the habits they can embrace in their own leadership journey.