Listening to the Ones We Serve : Activating Youth Voices for Education Change
The global education community is all striving towards bigger and better success measures — bigger classrooms, more resources, higher test scores, better learning environments, etc. However, what most education entities are failing to recognize is what Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, had shared decades ago: “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of […]
True Leaders Lead with Empathy
True leaders are able to coach, empower and inspire others. In this way, they increase motivation, involvement, performance, and wellbeing within their organizations. True leaders lead with empathy. Empathy is a right-brain activity, the kind that many people consider “a touchy-feely discipline,” or a soft skill, as it’s called these days. But at its core, […]