2022 Leaders Day Talk | 49:04 | Leadership & Strategic
Summary
As schools have grown in organizational complexity, so have the number of areas over which headmasters must provide administrative leadership. Etymologically, however, the “headmaster” of a school is simply the “head teacher.” Despite the increased complexity of the headmaster’s role, in an important sense every school leader still is and must be the intellectual leader of the school. In this seminar, we will examine the importance of a headmaster’s intellectual leadership and also consider practical suggestions for how headmasters can provide such leadership.
Speaker
Dr. David Diener works at Hillsdale College where he is the headmaster of Hillsdale Academy and a lecturing professor of education. He also is a Fellow on the Alcuin Fellowship National Council, serves on the board of directors for the Society for Classical Learning and the Board of Academic Advisors for the Classic Learning Test, is a member of the National Council of Classical Educators, and offers consulting services through Classical Academic Press. He is the author of Plato: The Great Philosopher-Educator and serves as the series editor for Classical Academic Press’ series Giants in the History of Education. He also is an associate editor for the journal Principia: a Journal of Classical Education. He holds a BA in philosophy and ancient languages from Wheaton College as well as an MA in philosophy, an MS in history and philosophy of education, and a dual PhD in philosophy and philosophy of education from Indiana University.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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