Building and Sustaining Communities of
Educational Leadership Values and Ethics for Educational Advancement and Sustainability
Jill Hartmann
Dr. Sara Stetson
Dr. Ann Gaffney
Building and Sustaining Communities of Educational
Leadership
“They have taught me that it is possible to find a group of people who don’t have to trample on others to be successful.”
CohortEffectiveness
Cohort Effectiveness Scale
2008
2010
2011
2012
38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54
Cohort Effectiveness by Length of Afiliation
Altruism
“People have gone WAY out of their way to help me with things I needed. People helped me with materials and HOURS of work without expecting anything in return. It is just completely overwhelming!”
Altruism
Competition“I do not want to be behind while others continue to make progress. I want to be viewed as a capable/competent member of the team. The cohort makes me work hard to continue the process toward the dissertation.”
“I may not have finished without the help and encouragement (and the competitiveness)”
“We hold one another accountable for our actions, which compels a greater depth to research and conceptualization.”
Competition
“My cohort started helping each other practice for defenses. Everyone was so eager to help and it made me feel great to think I might be part of helping, too.”
Collaboration
“A tribe including many members who, from possessing in high degree the spirit of patriotism, fidelity, obedience, courage, and sympathy, were always ready to aid one another, and to sacrifice themselves for the common good, would be victorious over most other tribes, and this would be natural selection.” -Darwin
Group Selection
Competing over who gets to pair with whom
Abilities + Willingness + Availability
Social capital triggers partner choice
Questions:• How are mechanisms underlying reputation modeled in large
communities? (Social media?)• Can an understanding of the dynamics of cooperation in groups help
us to replicate conditions that give rise to effective cohorts?• To what extent does reputation management depend on Theory of
Mind/mentalizing? (Tennie et al., 2010) • Can TOM/mentalizing develop to the same capacity in a digital world?• What is the salience of reputation? Have signals become more
important than the qualities they represent? (Tennie et al., 2010)