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Monthly Archives January 2012

Habits of Mind: Empathy


This post is part of a series on sixteen “Habits of Mind” put forth by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick as being “necessary for success in school, work, and life” (Costa & Kallick, 2010, p. 212). Listening with understanding and empathy: Understand others! Devoting mental energy to another person’s thoughts and ideas; holding in [...]

Posted 16 January 2012 † damian § Damian's Favorites § Habits of Mind § Reflection ‡ Comments (1) °

Shifting My Sharing


Despite the periodic blog posts heralding the death of RSS, I remain a huge fan of the syndication format (not familiar with RSS?  Check the wiki).  I have been an avid user of Google Reader for nearly five years now, and I use it daily to aggregate and read, at last count, nearly 200 blogs, [...]

Posted 11 January 2012 † damian § Organization § School Psychology § Social Network § Twitter § Web 2.0 ‡ Comments (3) °

This Is A Call: Distributed Leadership


Happy New Year! As my doctoral program rolls right along, I am currently in the throes of the literature review section of my dissertation.  After some going back and forth between potential topics, I have decided to focus my dissertation on the theory of distributed leadership. I’m still in the very early stages of the [...]

Posted 01 January 2012 † damian § Doctoral Studies § Ed Leadership ‡ Comments (0) °