Leading a Learning Organization: The Science of Working With Others, Oct/2009

Improve the quality of organizational learning in your school and address how current demands for rapid change and accountability contribute to levels of fear and stress. The author draws on educational, psychological, and neuroscientific research to show how leaders can change the prevailing emotional climate or tone of a school to promote deeper learning at all levels.

Benefits

1. Understand why the rapid pace of change in education has created more fear and stress.
2. Learn how school leaders can reduce the impact of negative emotions and promote empowering ones.
3. Establish a more focused and effective work environment.
4. Recognize why new knowledge about memory can enhance learning at all levels.
5. Discover how to handle an overwhelming learning agenda.
6. Make collaboration an integral part of school culture.

About The Author:
Casey Reason, PhD, has worked with leaders from all over the world on breakthrough strategies designed to improve performance and overcome resistance to change. His easily applied approaches are founded on the emerging body of research in brain science and adult learning theory. Dr. Reason has worked with hundreds of schools in locations throughout the United States, Switzerland, and New Zealand. In addition to leadership consulting and research, Dr. Reason specializes in instructional design. He has developed more than 50 graduate- and doctoral-level distance learning courses since 2003. He is president of Highpoint Learning, an Arizona-based consulting company.

At age 30, Dr. Reason was named the principal of Whitmer High School, one of the largest urban schools in Ohio. Using innovative leadership and reform strategies based on collaborative learning communities, the Whitmer staff accomplished an impressive turnaround in student achievement and behavior. Their efforts were formally recognized by the Ohio Department of Education. Dr. Reason later applied these principles at the district level, reforming team-learning processes to spark innovation and change.

His work has been featured in Educational Leadership, and he has presented for the National Association of Secondary School Principals, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Southern Regional Educational Board, and the University Council for Educational Administration.

He earned a doctorate in educational leadership from Bowling Green State University.