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Article: Songs of life for school leaders.(Guest Column)
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- School Administrator
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- January 1, 2004
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In Alaska, the native Americans speak of education being about the songs of life. School administrators need to embrace the songs of life too, but it is all too easy to forsake the beauty of lyric and melody in the rut of leadership. I use songs in my educational leadership classes as a threshold to reflection, solace and self-deprecation among prospective school administrators.
Many of us in school administration, sadly, have lost touch with the music of life and its redemptive qualities.
I remember hearing John Stanford, the late superintendent in Seattle, Wash., and a retired Army general, expressing dismay at the "valley of despair" pall that hung ...