Bill’s Story:
Leadership 2020 is honored
to have Dr. William G. Spady as one
of our Associates. Bill is internationally recognized
as one of the major theorists, writers, developers,
and leaders in future-focused outcome-based educational
reform efforts worldwide.
One good way to get to know Bill is to read his
books.
Published in 1998, Paradigm Lost: Reclaiming
America’s Educational Future is partly
autobiographical. Bill recounts his own history in
American education as he traces the development of
our national school system over the past 200 years.
In Total Leaders: Applying the Best Future-Focused
Change Strategies to Education Bill and
his
co-writer Charles J. (Chuck) Schwahn present a model
for total leadership that draws on the wisdom of
over
100 top organizational theorists.
In March 1999 Bette Moore heard Bill speak during
a panel on “Education in the 21st Century”
at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development (ASCD) Convention in San Francisco. She
had also recently read Emotional Intelligence:
Why It Can Matter More than IQ by Daniel
Goleman and Synchronicity: The Inner Path
of Leadership by Joseph Jawarski. As a fifth
grade teacher, she began to realize that the 10-year
old students in her classes would begin to assume
positions of leadership by the year 2020. She realized
that Bill’s Total Leaders model was the perfect
tool for teachers as they model leadership for our
future. Bill and Bette again met at the Confederation
of Oregon School Administrators (COSA) Conference
in April 1999 where they began discuss the application
of the Total Leaders model to the elementary and middle
school classroom.
Bill continued to develop his thinking about educational
reform, and, in 2001 he published his most recent
book, Beyond Counterfeit Refoms: Forging an
Authentic Future for All Learners. Realizing
that “Total Leaders” must also be “Total
Learners,” Bill describes a powerful curriculum
framework that has far-reaching implications for lasting
educational reform worldwide. The Five C’s Curriculum
is a direct extension of the “Essence of Total
Learning” described in Beyond Counterfeit Reforms.
Probably the best way to get to know Bill, however,
is to stop by the HeartLight Learning Community in
Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where he and his wife,
Pam, are implementing the “Five C’s Curriculum”
with a wonderful group of teenagers and young adults.
www.heartlight.co.za
Books available on Amazon.com:
Paradigm Lost: Reclaiming America’s
Educational Future
Total Leaders: Applying the Best Future-Focused
Change Strategies to Education
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter
More than IQ
Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
Beyond
Counterfeit Refoms: Forging an Authentic
Future for All Learners |
