Essential Question 12

Essential Question 12: How can understanding of controlled disruption and coherence making impact your leadership of peers at this time, and at this level?

We tend to think of disturbance as a negative thing, however it is inevitable within a group of people and it can lead to good things.  Fullman (p. 126) said, "When I say disturbance is a good thing, I am not against coherence, but in fact just the opposite: unsettling processes provide the best route to greater all-round coherence. In other words, the most powerful coherence is a function of having worked through the ambiguities and complexities of hard-to solve problems."  

I think this question is directly tied to Essential Question 10.  Disruption, or people with varying opinion, is important for the advancement of the group.  Working with perfect coherence never challenges and leads to complacency.  In a world that changes as much as ours does, complacency is the last thing we want in education.  "You don't have the same kind of control that traditional leadership is used to. What you don't realize until you do it is that you may, in fact, have more control but in a different fashion. You get more feedback than before, you learn more than before, you know more through your own people..." (Fullman, 2001, p. 123).  

Therefore as difficult as it may sound we need to embrace disruption, work through it, and create coherence within our schools.  And then be ready to do it all over again.   


Resource:
Fullan, M. (2001). Leading in a culture of change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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  1. Dr. FJuly 29, 2019 at 12:10 PM

    Good post. Makes one wonder what Fullman would make of our current state government.

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