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Stop Calling Yourself a Transformational Leader (Unless You Really Are One!)
This video discusses the concept of transformational leadership, criticizing the empty use of the term without understanding its true...

Daniel Tarker, MFA, Ed.D.
Sep 10, 20232 min read
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Will We All Become Autobots? Taking the pulse of where we are today with artificial intelligence
In late 2022, an event took place that many have since likened to the explosion of the first atomic bomb in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Maybe...

Daniel Tarker, MFA, Ed.D.
Aug 20, 20234 min read
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Sensemaking, Cynefin, and COVID-19 Part 1
Remember January, 2020? I recall being at a bar with some friends. There were murmurs about some virus spreading in places like China and...

Daniel Tarker, MFA, Ed.D.
Dec 30, 20216 min read
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Relational Leadership in a Virtual or Hybrid Workplace
Reflections on transformational leadership in online and hybrid workplaces.

Daniel Tarker, MFA, Ed.D.
Jun 18, 20215 min read
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Art Based Study Skills for Neurodivergent Students Part One - Dyslexia
A research article published in Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching: Multidisciplinary Approaches Across the Arts edited by Ross

Daniel Tarker, MFA, Ed.D.
Jul 28, 20205 min read
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Funding WA State Community Colleges is an Anti-Racist Issue
And make no mistake. This is an anti-racist issue.

Daniel Tarker, MFA, Ed.D.
Jul 10, 20205 min read
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12 Similarities Between Dreaming and Storytelling
Having trouble writing creatively during the COVID-19 epidemic? Give your mind permission to write like its dreaming.

Daniel Tarker, MFA, Ed.D.
Jul 5, 20207 min read
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Escaping Plato’s Cave: Non-Teleological Leadership in Times of Crisis
For leaders of any organization, the act of sensemaking – the collecting of information one needs to understand reality - is vitally import

Daniel Tarker, MFA, Ed.D.
Jun 28, 20206 min read
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If I Could Remove My Head - Reflections on Incorporating Art into Study Skills Workshops
Like the majority of colleges, the community college I work at shifted to remote operations during spring quarter, 2020 in response to...

Daniel Tarker, MFA, Ed.D.
Jun 22, 20205 min read
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Community Colleges Face Three Crises – and an Opportunity
Like the nation as a whole, community colleges face a web of interconnected crises. As the economy struggles to recover from the COVID-19...

Daniel Tarker, MFA, Ed.D.
Jun 18, 20206 min read
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Crisis Leadership in the Time of COVID-19
Crisis situations require a different type of leadership than what is required for managing the day-to-day operations of an organization....

Daniel Tarker, MFA, Ed.D.
Jun 17, 20204 min read
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