Dynamic Professional Learning -- A Way to Refresh What Leaders Do!

How can we change current practice wherein leadership programs specify what they want leaders to learn before they learn it, i.e, standards-based learning? 

As a frontier beyond standards-based learning, I envision "Dynamic Professional Learning" -- a process that takes the best of what current leaders do and makes it better continuously. Dynamic Professional Learning will help leaders of learning and their stakeholders to learn more about what other leaders do by letting "learning" happen and, then, by analyzing what has been produced as evidence of learning, post hoc. This process uses the best of what is learned and shared by leaders as the current standard of quality with no preconceived limits. And because of technology, the current standard gets "refreshed" by dynamic leaders and not by a drawn out leadership standards development process. 

How does Dynamic Professional Learning work?

• First, Dynamic Professional Learning helps all leaders to examine how other leaders have produced a quality product or performance.
   
• Second, it encourages leaders to match, if not surpass, those products or performances to create a new "best" for other leaders to emulate.
  
  
• Third, it applies technology to offer new products to assess the best works of leaders of learning, e.g., Web 2.0 demos, infographics, blogs, wikis, solution briefs, and virtual coaching. 

See where I'm going? Using Dynamic Professional Learning means that each time practice and product development activities are completed and shared through technology a leader(s) establishes a better product or performance than the current standard of quality -- on local, state, national, and global levels. Wow! Sounds like learning can be engaging and demonstrable at a whole new level! These are examples of dynamic professional learning programs. We look forward to your comments and ideas for improving Dynamic Professional Learning.