Season 12 Outro: Instructional Strategies

In this episode, Dan and Lauren close out Season 12 of The Leadership Educator Podcast. Looking back across a season focused on instructional strategy, they reflect on the themes that kept surfacing: facilitation as “the craft underneath the content,” reflection as the practice that turns experience into learning, and frameworks that offer better questions rather than answers. They also share updates from the Association of Leadership Educators conference, including new research on learning goals, instructional strategies, and assessment in leadership education, as well as Lauren’s work on student-created podcast assignments. Finally, they look ahead to ILA in Toronto, NDSL issues #190 and #191, and the Leadership Educators Institute, and share their planning for next season. To shape it, they invite listeners to recommend a book that has changed how they teach, facilitate, or think about leadership. Four of those books will become conversations about how the authors put them together and what made them useful to others.

Help shape next season: Recommend a book that has sharpened how you teach, facilitate, or think about leadership by November 30, 2026.

Updates and resources mentioned in this episode include:

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• NDSL #187: General Principles for Advancing Leadership Programs – with Drs. Kathy Guthrie and Gayle Spencer
• General Principles for Leadership Programs (2nd ed.) – International Leadership Association (2026), free download
• Bullock, L., & Jenkins, D. M. (2026). Generative leadership in the classroom for women and girls. In T. Swed & S. Wamble-King (Eds.), Global Generative Leadership: Lessons from Women’s Leadership to Sustain Our Future (Chap. 2). Emerald.
• Devies, B., Bullock, L., Jenkins, D. M., Allen, S. J., & Stanberry, J. (2025). Sound Leadership: Harnessing the Power of Podcasts in Leadership Development. New Directions for Student Leadership, 2025(185), 45–52.
• Allen, S. J., & Hartman, N. S. (2009). Sources of learning in student leadership development programming. Journal of Leadership Studies.
• Moving the Needle: What We Know and Don’t Know About Developing Leaders – Rosch, Allen, & Jenkins (Eds.) (Emerald, 2025)
• Association of Leadership Educators – ALE 2026 in Philadelphia; ALE 2027 in Atlanta
• 2026 Leadership Educators Institute – December 14–16, University of Louisville