This
article is based on Michael Fullan/ Six Secrets of Change (2008)
1. Love your employees
2. Connect peers with purpose
3. Capacity building prevails
4. Learning is the work
5. Transparency rules
6. System learn
3. Capacity
building prevails
Capacity
building concerns competencies, resources, and motivation. Anthropogogical leaders
must continue to develop capacity in all stakeholders while always anticipating
the next course of action. Anthropogogical leaders successful in sustaining
school improvement build capacity for leadership within the organization. According
to Golan, Anthropogogy has four basic principles:
The independent learner:
the perception of oneself as an independent entity. A person sees him/herself
as someone who is self-directed; choosing what to learn, how much and how to
learn it.
Adapting learning to that person's needs:
the person is ready to learn when he/she needs that specific learning process,
and it is incorporated into daily tasks and social functioning. He/she sees
that the learning process serves his/her personal development.
Renovating learning: People
approach learning in possession of their life experiences. For learning to be
more significant, the learner needs to connect the current learning knowledge with
his/her prior knowledge. Thus the person who teaches should renovate learning.
Immediate and
practical learning: The main motive for human learning is for problem
solving. The learner has a need for the immediate application of the learned material,
so learning has to be more focused in giving solutions to the particular problem.
Learning which cannot be implemented
immediately is perceived as a waste of time.
The effectiveness of distributed leadership resides in the human potential
available to be released within an organization, an emergent property of a
group or network of individuals in which group members pool their expertise.
4. Learning is the
work
Successful
growth itself is accomplished when the culture of the school supports the
day-to-day learning of teachers engaged in improving what they do in the
classroom and school. Leaders must not only be creative in finding time for
teachers to engage in Professional development during the day, but they
also must consistently model lifelong learning themselves. The
Anthropogogical leader helps
the people discover the unknown without repeating information about the known
as a lifelong
process. Digital leadership dictates that
learning is first and foremost.
5. Transparency environment
Clarity
and Transparency environment allow lifelong process. Ongoing data, access to seeing
effective practices, sharing innovation for others to learn from, and embracing
significant learning model are necessary for success. Anthropogogical leaders
have the means to continuously tell their story to key stakeholders. Sharing
more information will increase engagement in the change process. Peer's
observation is equally important when it comes to leaders sharing and seeing
the work of their peers.
6. System learn
Continuous
learning depends on developing many leaders in the school in order to enhance
continuity. Step 6 in the significant
learning model is Teaching- Using the Anthropogogy model to teach
the other. The learner becomes the leader ("new
Anthropogogical leader").
The learner uses his/her personal experience as a role model and teaches the
other using his/her own unique identity. He/ She applies the Anthropogogy model
to lead a new learner to significant learning. The result of Step 6: continuity
of the learning process according to the Anthropogogy model to achieve significant
learning for the learner and for the leader. It also
depends on schools being confident in the face of complexity and open to new
ideas. An idea that has been tested successfully elsewhere is adapted to meet
the unique characteristics of one's own school or district.
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