What’s the difference? How does a cast go from a cast to an all-star cast? We’ve experienced groups clashing painfully and failing. We’ve experienced groups working well and succeeding. We’ve been on the team, a part of the committee, in the cast. (Okay, yes, you could read the last three words as a Hoosiers paraphrase, but that’s as far down the sports road as I plan to go). Whether we played a sport in school or not, we’ve been put on teams: teams to do projects, teams to choose textbooks, learning teams to plan curriculum.
I don’t want to open up an extended sports metaphor here (though it might be apt to do so) and I don’t need to because sports teams are not the only teams many of us have experience of in our lives. Good leaders empower people to combine their strengths, to deemphasize their weaknesses and to work towards shared and clearly articulated goals. Good leaders put people in positions to work together in cooperation. Richard Chamberlain, Robert Conrad, Sally Kellerman, Raymond Burr, Timothy Dalton, Richard Crenna… need I go on? One could say it was an all-star cast.Īs Sean and I wrapped up our chat, it occurred to me that what good leaders – like Sean – do is create all-star casts around them.
As you may recall (again, if you of a certain age), it was a pretty amazing cast. Sean even dug up and sent me a picture of his tattered copy!Īs we talked about the miniseries, we began to run down the actors we remembered from the cast. From there, it was rapid-fire word association playing on the author (James Michener), the miniseries and the novel. We got on the topic because we were exchanging addresses for our Christmas card lists and I informed my old friend that I live in Centennial, Colorado. Does that ring bells for anyone out there? Do you remember Centennial? If you’re too young, think of them as Netflix or Amazon dropping 10 – 13 episodes of a complete season of a show and you moderating your binge watching to three episodes a night. People of a certain age remember miniseries. The cast of the 1970s miniseries Centennial, of course. Given that, do you know what we talked about? He’s absolutely a guru of this stuff and I am always happy to have a chance to learn from him.
CENTENNIAL MINISERIES CAST PROFESSIONAL
He’s had played a significant role in pioneering Twitter movements such as #Read4Fun and #CelebrateMonday along with moderating online chats and professional development. He leads by example here, connecting himself with teachers and administrators all over the country. Blog post after blog post have been written extoling the importance and potential of robust Professional Learning Networks that can be built online and I am very happy to say that Sean has led the way for me getting my head around this concept. Kennedy High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. We’ve experienced groups clashing painfully and failing. What’s the difference? How does a cast go from a cast to an all-star cast?Īs I sat at my computer this weekend wrapping up a few work projects that had spilled over into Saturday, my Facebook Messenger chime went off and I was delighted to spend a few moments in virtual conversation with my old friend Sean Gaillard who is the talented and well respected principal of John F. 15 – “It’s Not What They Think, It’s HOW They Think.” Related Content from And There Came A Day:
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