The Imagination: Hope Unscreened

By Dr. Julia Manini (Ed.D/M.R.E/B.Ed/Principal) Before there were manuals to instruct, googles to search, timely TikTok consultations to inform and insta(nt) “posts” to “feed” us, there lived the magic of the unwielded imaginings of our childhood—a  time where the unscreened possibility, of spaces and ideas, parts and places, creatures and people…were all coloured by the […]

Cultivating Imagination in Leadership

By Meaghan Dougherty and Gillian Judson Our educational ecosystem is increasingly complex.  In North America, we are engaged in educational environments marked by vast disparities in funding and resources coupled with the ever-increasing physical, emotional, social, and academic needs of students.  We are responsible for caring for students, for keeping them safe, in a context […]

Engaging Imagination to Develop a School Leadership Network that Includes a Pedagogy of Care

By Myra Quadros-Meis, Ed.D (Administrator in San Francisco Unified School District) School leadership can be lonely and isolating. Your colleagues are other administrators who are also busy so you do not want to burden them with your questions or fears. Often, leadership meetings are full of logistics with little time to network much less be […]