The document summarizes a presentation about emerging leadership themes for school administrators in graduate studies. It identifies three key themes: 1) Developing a genuine, sustainable climate of inclusion in schools, 2) Engaging community in innovative, effective ways, such as implementing Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, and 3) Creating school cultures where learners thrive as producers of content using new literacies. Popular media examples and news stories are discussed to illustrate these themes.

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Emerging Leadership
Themes in Graduate
Studies in Education &
Technology
Dr. Frederic Fovet – Presentation to the RRU community, June 21, 2018

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Daily, we are grateful to Xwsepsum
(Esquimalt) and Lkwungen
(Songhees) families, who continue
to share their knowledge about the
history of the lands and their
cultural practices.

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Flavour
• The brief for this presentation:
• ‘Emerging leadership themes that school administrators would find
insightful to learn as part of their MAELM studies’
• I will present emerging themes in a format that might serve as a
teaser-intro to the MAELM program or to ‘EDLM501: Leadership for
Learning’ more specifically.
• I will be exploring three themes in light of the time constraints
• 50 minutes will give us limited time for interaction but I will be using
the hashtag #MAELMjune21 to continue the discussion with you
beyond the presentation
Dr. Frederic Fovet – Presentation to the RRU Community, June 21, 2018

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First Collaborative Reflection

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Popular Culture As Trigger
for Thought
• As a form of public pedagogy, film combines entertainment and
politics, and, as I have attempted to argue, lays claim to public
memory (though in contested ways given the existence of distinctly
varied social and cultural formations).‘ (Giroux, 2001)
• #MAELMjune21
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Giroux’ Interest in Film and Popular
Culture When ‘Taking the Pulse’ of
Educational Transformation
• Society and media have a fascination for education, particularly thorny
educational issues and the need for education reform.
• Crirical pedagogues also inherently seek outlets for dissemination of their
reflection that are more democratic, less hierachical and more immediately
accessible than academic publications (and in this sense several recent
documentaries stand out: Teach us all (Lowman, 2017), Most Likely to
succeed (Whiteley, et al., 2015), etc.).
• #MAELMjune21
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Teaching with Popular Culture
• For other critical pedagogues such as Hodges (2010), film and
popular culture offer unique opportunity to introduce into the
classroom powerful resources that trigger dialogue and challenge of
the status quo.
• I’ll therefore ask you to bear with me while I present a few media
artifacts in the hope of triggering our discussions. Here are a set of
scenes that have recently had a signficant impact on me.
• #MAELMjune21
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‘Silent Prom’?
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Outed As LGBTQ in School
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The Issue of Congenial Space for
Students Who Are New to a
Community, Including Children
from Immigrant Families
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What Leadership Themes Do
These Scenes from Contemporary
Popular Culture Highlight and
Bring to the Forefront?

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Inclusive leadership and the development
of school cultures that embrace diversity
• ‘What exactly is ‘new’ about this theme?’ might you argue…
• Indeed the dichotomy between mainstream and ‘special needs’ education has been
effectively eroded in pre-service teaching.
• Provincial policy and legislative guidelines are in place and more rarely challenged.
• A Supreme Court decision has sent out a clear message: ‘“…adequate special education,
therefore, is not a dispensable luxury. For those with severe learning disabilities, it is the
ramp that provides access to the statutory commitment to education made to all
children…”. & the undue hardship argument finds itself significantly scrutinized.
• Moore v. British Columbia (Education), 2012 SCC 61 (CanLII)
• #MAELMjune21
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And Yet…
• Schools still rarely consider inclusion beyond diagnostic
interventions and minimal legal requirements for accommodations
• No genuine desire to shift the mindset to proactive inclusive design
• No real intention to consider inclusion in terms of ‘culture’ beyond
cognitive classroom retrofiting: leisure, sports, extra-curricular,
social interactions, hidden curriulum, etc.
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First Emergent Leadership Theme:
Developping a Genuine, Sustainable
Climate of Inclusion
• Shifting mindset from retrofitting to inclusive design (Loreman, 2017)
• Management of change (Hermann, 2016; McCarley, Peters & Decman, 2016)
• Shaping the hidden curriculum (Neve & Collett, 2017)
• Shifting/ framing school cultures (Villa & Thousand, 2017)
• Examining inclusion holistically and systematically throughout institutions
(Ravenscroft, Wazny & Davis, 2017)
• #MAELMjune21
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Second Collaborative Brainstorm

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Food for Thought
• A media story has gained momentum through 2017 and it has had a
significant impact on my personal reflection around the notion of school
leadership. I have been able to use it extensively in my teaching.
• #MAELMjune21
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At First, a Song Heard
on the Net
N'we Jinan Artists - "HOME TO ME" //
Grassy Narrows First Nation
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A Little Historical Timeline
• 2013: David Hodges, an Indigenous hip-hop producer and youth worker from Montreal,
Quebec travels to the Northern Cree communities in Quebec to uplift the youth through
music and education. This is where the N’we Jinan was born.
• 2014: Bringing joy and empowerment to the entire nation, the N’we Jinan Tour visited
10 communities throughout the province of Quebec to discover talented Cree artists
who had a desire for music. Receiving over 100,000 plays on the Tour’s officialjosh
soundcloud page, the N’we Jinan Tour compiled 19 original songs with over 70 youths.
• 2016: Featured on The National (CBC The National, 2016)
• 2017: Mentioned by the Prime Minister on Twitter: ‘Replying to @JustinTrudeau thanks
for the support, Justin! The kids are going to be thrilled about the tweet! ❤️’
• #MAELMjune21
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What Are the Important
Leadership Themes Emerging
from This News Story?

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TRC Recommendations and
Traction Around Implementation
• Recommentations 6 to 17
• What is the timeline?
• How do we gain rapid traction around implementation in schools?
• How do we avoid progressive inertia past the inital TRC
excitement?
• #MAELMjune21
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Leadership Lessons
• Beyond the very important TRC recommendations, this news story
highlights the need for effective community partnerships.
• How do we bridge the school vs community silos?
• How do we estalish genuine, sustainable communication channels
with community
• How do we start reflecting on the power issues we perpetuate with
community and begin work on reciprocity?
• #MAELMjune21
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Second Leadership Theme: Engaging
Community in Innovative, Effective
and Meaningful Ways
• We know it is directly relevant to the implementation of the TRC
recommentations, but also in the fight against drop out, in effective Mental Health
prevention, etc.
• Issues of effective and transparent communication with community in the digital
age (Sheninger, 2014)
• Work around the erosion of inherent power dynamics between school and
community (Johnson, 2014)
• Need to integrate genuine experiential dimensions into our pedagogy and
philosophies of leadership (Glazier, Bolick & Stutts, 2017)
• #MAELMjune21
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The Reflection Continues…
• The N'we Jinan news story must lead us into further reflection around yet
another theme:
• These are youth experimenting with New Literacies
• They are embodying much of the theoretical discourse on New Literacies and
showcase the fact that learners in the digital age are producers of content, not
just consumers.
• New literacies are serving the objectives of Critical Pedagogy and allowing a
radical, powerful and swift current of political awakening, identity building and
amplification of voice among numerous groups of marginalized leaners.
• #MAELMjune21
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Third Emergent Leadership Theme: Creating
School Cultures Where Learners Thrive in Their
Capacity As Producers of Content and Message.
• Integrating New Literacies systemically across schools
• Facilitating a change of mindset in teaching; triggering, nurturing and supporting this
process of management of change (Zoch, Myers & Myers, 2017)
• Encourage school communities to embrace the political empowerment that
encompanies this act of ‘production’ of a discourse (Staley & Freeman, 2017)
• Encourage school communities to embrace the new responsibilities and opportunties
that arise from this new vision of the learner in a digital age (Talib, 2018)
• #MAELMjune21
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Recap
• Developping a genuine, sustainable climate of inclusion
• Engaging community in innovative, effective and meaningful ways
• Creating school cultures where learners thrive in their capacity as
producers of content and message.
• 12 minute video summary of the presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbR3DayccDE&feature=youtu.be
• #MAELMjune21
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If We Had Had More Time…
• Ethics, professional conduct, digital personas and boundaries in 21st
century education (Northouse, 2016).
• Navigating regionalization in a landscape of globalization (Taylor, 2013)
• Decolinizing the curriuculum (Furo, 2018)
• Interdisciplinary approaches to the curriculum (Sun You, 2017)
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References
• CBC The National (2016) Grassy Narrows CBC The National [Video Segment]. YouTube.
Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rumvsrrjs0k
• Furo, A. (2018) Decolonizing the Classroom Curriculum: Indigenous Knowledges,
Colonizing Logics, and Ethical Spaces. PhD. Thesis, Faculty of Graduate and
Postdoctoral Studies, University of Ottawa.
• Giroux, H. (2001) Breaking Into the Movies: Pedagogy and the Politics of Film. JAC, 21
(3), 583-598.
• Glazier, J., Bolick, C., & Stutts, C. (2017) Unstable Ground: Unearthing the Realities of
Experiential Education in Teacher Education. Journal of Experiential Education, 40 (3),
231-248
• Hermann, K. R.. (2016) The Principal's Role; Distributed Leadership. Doctor of
Philosophy (PhD), dissertation, Educational Foundations & Leadership, Old Dominion
University,
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References (contd.)
• Hodges, A.L. (2010) A Critical Close-Up: Three Films and Their Lessons in Critical
Literacy. The English Journal, 99 (3), 70-75
• Johnson, E. (2014) From the Classroom to the Living Room: Eroding Academic Inequities
through Home Visits. Journal of School Leadership, 24, 357-385
• Loreman, T. (2017) Pedagogy for Inclusive Education. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of
Education. Retrieved 16 Jun. 2018, from
http://education.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.001.0001/acrefore-
9780190264093-e-148
• Lowman, S. (Producer and Director) (2017) Teach Us All [Motion Picture] Los
Angeles,CA: Array Films
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• McCarley, T. A., Peters, M. L., & Decman, J. M. (2016). Transformational
leadership related to school climate: A multi-level analysis. Educational
Management, Administration & Leadership, 44(2), 322-342
• Moore v. British Columbia (Education), 2012 SCC 61 (CanLII)
• Neve, H. and Collett, T. (2017), Empowering students with the hidden curriculum.
Clinical Teacher.
• N'we Jinan Artists (2016) Home to me [Video segment]. YouTube. Retrieved
from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgaYz8YWsO8
• Northouse, P. G. (2016). Leadership Ethics. In P.G. Northouse (Ed.), Leadership:
Theory and practice (7th ed., pp. 329-362). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE
Publications, Inc.
References (contd.)
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• Ravenscroft, J., Wazny, K., & Davis, J. M. (2017). Factors associated with
successful transition among children with disabilities in eight European countries.
PLoS ONE, 12(6),. Retrieved from: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179904
• Sheninger, E. (2014). Digital leadership: Changing paradigms for changing times.
Thousand Oaks: CA: Corwin Press
• Staley, B. & Freeman, L.A. (2017) Digital storytelling as student-centred pedagogy:
empowering high school students to frame their futures. Research and Practice in
Technology Enhanced Learning, 12-21. Retrieved from:
https://doi.org/10.1186/s41039-017-0061-9
• Talib, S. (2018) Social media pedagogy: Applying an interdisciplinary approach to
teach multimodal critical digital literacy. E-Learning and Digital Media, 15 (2), 55 - 66
References (contd.)
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• Taylor, Y-W (2013) Understanding the globalization of K-12 schooling through the lens of a
multinational education company: a case study of Fairmont Education Group. PhD. Thesis,
Faculty of USC Rossier School of Education.
• Villa, R. A., & Thousand, J. S. (2017). Leading an inclusive school: Access and Success for
all Students. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• Whiteley, G., Leibowitz, A., Ridley, A., Lombroso, D. (Producers) & Whiteley, G. (Director)
(2015) Most Likely to Succeed [Motion Picture] Austin, TX: Tugg Edu
• Sun You, H. (2017) Why Teach Science with an Interdisciplinary Approach: History, Trends,
and Conceptual Frameworks. Journal of Education and Learning, 6 (4), 66-77
• Zoch, M., Myers, J. & Myers, J. (2017). Teachers’ Engagement with New Literacies as
Support for Implementing Technology in the English/Language Arts Classroom.
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 17 (1), 25-52
References (contd.)
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Contact Details
• Dr. Frederic Fovet
• ffovet@upei.ca
• implementudl@gmail.com
• @Ffovet
• www.implementudl.com
• https://www.islandscholar.ca/people/ffovet
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