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The "Ambidextrous" Professional Learning Community
The “opposable mind” allows a member of a Professional Learning Community to have the, "…predisposition and capacity to hold two diametrically opposing ideas in their heads. And then, without panicking or simply settling for one alternative or the other, they’re able to produce a synthesis that is superior to either opposing idea.” Have an internal and external focus simultaneously. Have a focus on getting better at what you do, while looking for new ways to do it. Professional Learning Communities that have “integrative thinking,” will be able to manage con-current focus and prove themselves to be... ambidextrous.
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Matthew May, author of Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking The Toyota Way offers 10 practices that can drive the innovation necessary to discover elegant solutions. These 10 practices should be embedded into the work of schools, districts, leadership teams, professional learning communities, or professional networked learning collaboratives.
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