As an educational leader, a significant part of your job is to motivate and encourage your teachers. Creating that kind of positive school climate not only requires time and effort, but also a deep understanding of the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the previous post (The Language We Use<\/a>), we explored the importance of avoiding language that seeks to impose. This concept is so vital that it deserves a deeper look. In the “Community” chapter of his online book on Conversational Leadership<\/em>, David Gurteen provides additional insights on the difference between “Buy-in” and “Ownership.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like many educational leaders, I’ve used the term “buy-in” for years … so combined with the information in the previous post, Gurteen’s perspective served as a startling wake up call. I’m now committed to revising the language I use when talking about the importance of involving teachers in the decision-making process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hopefully these two posts will give you some additional food for thought, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As an educational leader, a significant part of your job is to motivate and encourage your teachers. Creating that kind of positive school climate not only requires time and effort, but also a deep understanding of the process. In the previous post (The Language We Use), we explored the importance of avoiding language that seeks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[419,421,422,420,348,423],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-buy-in","tag-conversational-leadership","tag-david-gurteen","tag-ownership","tag-school-climate","tag-teacher-motivation","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}