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LOUISE STOLL / LANGUAGE FOR LEARNING LEADERSHIP
INTRODUCTION
Equipping children and young people for life in this dramatically
changing world is very different than it was for previous generations.
A paradigm shift is needed in the way many people still approach this
complex endeavour. The impact of new technologies, climate change,
increased life expectancy and more on the nature of work, health and
wellbeing is leading countries to update their curricula. They are supported by collective international efforts focused on ensuring that students will be ready to take control over and transform their future lives
(e.g., the OECD 2030 initiative2). Also, the global pandemic exposed
chasms in education systems, raising fundamental questions about
many taken-for-granted educational assumptions, and presenting an
opportunity to rethink the purpose of education and how you can arrive at your desired destination. In addressing these deeply complex
and intertwined challenges, learning leadership is vital to reshape and
reframe how to move forward.
Learning leadership is a kind of leadership that models and keeps
individual, group and collective learning at the heart of the endeavour
to realise its vision, infusing this throughout daily practice (Kools and
Stoll, 2016; OECD, 2016). In a world full of ‘compelling disturbances’
(Mitchell and Sackney, 2011), learning leadership provides direction by
ensuring that individuals, teams, organisations and systems learn their
way forward while keeping all students’ learning and wellbeing front
and centre. Learning leadership is not located in one place: it is exerted: ‘through distributed, connected activity and relationships of a range
of formal and informal leaders throughout a learning system’ (OECD,
2. https://www.oecd.org/education/2030-project/
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Professor Louise Stoll is
Professor of Professional
Learning at the UCL Centre
for Educational Leadership,
Institute of Education,
London, and an international
consultant. Her research
and development activity
focuses on how schools,
and local and national
systems create capacity for
learning in a changing world,
through schools as learning
organisations, professional
learning communities and
learning networks, leadership
for creative thinking and
leadership development.
She is a former President of
the International Congress
for School Effectiveness
and Improvement (ICSEI),
Fellow of the UK9s Academy
of the Social Sciences,
and a regular expert to the
OECD. Author of many
publications, Louise9s books
have been translated into
several languages. She
is also passionate about
onding ways to help make
better connections between
research and practice,
and develops researchinformed professional
learning materials for
leaders, including Improving
School Leadership: The
Toolkit for the OECD
and Catalyst, a teacher
leadership development card
resource. Louise is a popular
keynote presenter and has
collaborated with EduCaixa
in its Liderazgo para el
Aprendizaje initiative.
