Join HGSE Senior Lecturer Mary Grasse O'Neill and Allistair Witten, HGSE alumni, partner LeadershipLabSA, and founding director of the Centre for the Community School located in the Education Faculty of the Nelson Mandela University, for a 30-minute webinar discussing the path to leadership as an intentional practice.
Register for the webinar here, https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_59FQ4huZTWSMRdrv8ubBDw
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Mary Grassa O'Neill
Mary Grassa O’Neill is a senior lecturer on education and faculty director of the School Leadership Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the lead faculty member for the Online Certificate in School Management and Leadership, a partnership program with Harvard Business School and powered by HBS Online. The program includes four courses and offers professional development to principals at scale. It engages leaders in a new and interactive way of learning and a pioneering approach to case teaching. Grassa O’Neill created a new course, Race, Equity and Leadership with her colleagues Deborah Jewell-Sherman and Adria Goodson. The course supports the schoolwide focus on equity and diversity. It is a required course for Education Leadership doctoral students, School Leadership Program students and became the inspiration for a brand-new Principals’ Center Institute.
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Al Witten has been involved in the field of education for almost 40 years, and has experience as teacher and principal in township schools in Cape Town; university faculty member; director of organizations; advisor to government; education consultant; and researcher and scholar. His knowledge and expertise covers a number of areas in education, and includes organizational change and transformation; leadership and team development; education and social inequality; complex adaptive systems; systems thinking; and systemic change in education. Al is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. Among the positions he held before this was that of the founding director of the Centre for the Community School, which is located in the Education Faculty of the Nelson Mandela University.
He developed the conceptual framework of the community school, which is used as a theoretical and practice-based model for school improvement in South Africa. He is also a member of PILO (The Programme to Improve Learning Outcomes). PILO supports the national government with systemic change initiatives that focus on supporting and improving learning outcomes in a number of provinces in the country.
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LOCATION:Zoom Webinar-more information coming soon. STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20210409T160000Z DTEND:20210409T163000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR