Leading for impact and the educational reset

<p>Dr. Bob Maxfield introduced Dr. Stephanie Dulmage, Director of 21st Century Learning for the Hazel Park School District, as someone who thinks completely and deeply about educational issues and sometimes thinks a bit outside the box.</p><p>In terms of her educational background, Stephanie holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education with a ZA endorsement from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in Reading from Oakland University. At Oakland she participated in the Galileo Leadership Academy while pursuing her Ed. Specialist degree. Returning to Oakland University, she earned her Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership.</p><p>Her professional background includes over 30 years with the West Bloomfield School District. After 26 years as a first grade teacher, she transitioned to a curriculum coordinator role focused primarily on using instructional technology to transform the learning environment. Stephanie supported schools in data analysis and implemented a data warehouse and data assessment systems in the district as a huge piece of her school improvement work.</p><p>Stephanie’s role as Director of 21st Century Learning in Hazel Park, similar to her work in West Bloomfield, is to support teachers to utilize and really think through how might we shift and transform learning environments with the effective application and use of technology. However upon arriving in Hazel Park, she needed to pivot and shift as the district launched into a total systemic reconfiguration of every system, process, procedure, and structure.  Collective energy was directed toward how you engage in deep turnaround work around systemic reconfiguration, and what does that take to build collective understanding, to engage in sense making, to really reform and rethink and redefine what the district does. </p><p>Now she continues work on the systemic reconfiguration, moving forward the systems work that was started, and leveraging that forward movement to continue to deepen the capacity of our building administrators and our te