I am in Toronto, meeting with  NAESP’s affiliate — the Ontario Principals’ Council –and ruminating on Michael Fullan’s work: Stratosphere, The New Meaning of Educational Change, and the Moral Imperative of School Leadership, to name a few. I am also reflecting on Fullan’s presentation at the NAESP conference in Baltimore where he walked onto stage and spoke without notes and barely glancing at his slides. A true master’”a genius in so many ways.  At NAESP, he spoke of his “5

At the June 2013 International Symposium on Educational Reform (ISER) in Finland, Dr. Christine Mason, CEI director, met with Dr. Lea Kuusilehto-Awale and Dr. Seppo Pulkkinen of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland, and Dr. Kamran Namdar of Mälardalen University in Sweden and outlined first steps. Dr. Mason and Dr. Namdar were both ISER keynote speakers. ISER’s purpose is to examine educational reform from a global perspective, discuss common issues facing educational le