![]() ![]() ![]() Her 2018 book, “ Leadership in Turbulent Times,” has “no master key for leadership,” she said. With that introduction, Goodwin explained how after many decades in what she called an “odd profession-spending time with dead presidents,” she decided to see what traits they had developed in common. In the classroom, but also in the capitol,” he urged. “Decisions are being made by people who haven’t been inside of the classroom,” he told the assembly-and those decisions are frequently “not being made in the best interests of our children and our teachers. Goodwin studies presidents as leaders, and today, those are needed more than ever in education. Johnson.īut when ASCD board member Ben Shuldiner introduced Goodwin, he underscored that choosing her was no happy accident. Over the past four decades, Goodwin has earned her moniker, “Historian of the presidents.” She’s written a half-dozen best-selling books, including ones on Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Inviting Doris Kearns Goodwin to speak to a gathering of thousands of educators brought together by the annual ASCD Empower19 conference might have seemed like a surprising choice at first. ![]()
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