MUSD: A community dedicated to student success

Changes in our world are occurring at warp speed. Whatever form it takes, change is upon us. Insightful organizations will be ready. MUSD is ready to be insightful.

Today’s students must be able to quickly adapt to an increasingly chaotic, yet opportunity-filled, global environment. In this era of uncertainty — globalization, innovative thinking, rapid technology breakthroughs, and stunning emerging opportunities for student learning — students must learn new leadership skills critical to addressing future situations.

In the book, Leaders Make the Future, author Bob Johansen notes that “most of our current leadership models are based on the present and past, not the future. … In the years ahead, there will be fewer problems that can be solved. Instead, our students will have dilemmas, which are basically unsolvable problems, and these will require a different set of leadership skills.” Organizations ignoring the trend toward greater diversity and inclusiveness will lack the skills to overcome these dilemmas.

I recently returned from Alexandria, Va. where we were the only Arizona school district invited to the National School Improvement Symposium, hosted by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

ASCD is an insightful organization and its new futuring statement — Revolutionizing the Way We Learn — is driven by the need for school organizations to renew relevance in the classroom, create new solutions to challenges facing 21st century learners, and to define the niche, or “Blue Ocean,” in our community and state.