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How To Be A Lifelong Learning Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. These types of leaders also model and directly encourage a culture of learning inside their organizations. They are information extractors.

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How To Be A Lifelong Learning Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. These types of leaders also model and directly encourage a culture of learning inside their organizations. They are information extractors.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills. A culture of learning, where curiosity is valued and debate encouraged, creates fertile ground for critical thinking. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see.

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Case Study: Transforming A National Network Culture Through Technology

NTEN

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability.

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The Importance of Nonprofit Workplace Culture: How PENCIL Thrives by Writing Their Own Path

NonProfit Hub

There’s probably a specific classroom you remember from those earlier days, and a teacher who left a huge impact on your life. After all, their organization was built to provide programs that help students in the classroom by providing resources and making education interesting. And PENCIL, Inc. See the difference?

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. Staff who know the program, the people, and the culture well. Guide to building evaluation capacity.