ABSTRACT
In this chapter I would like to describe and explain the nature of my influence as an educational leader in a school district of over 32,000 students. The chapter is set in the context of paradigm proliferation (Lather, 2000) and new epistemologies of scholarship and practice (Boyer, 1990; Schön, 1995) at the beginning of the new millennium. There is much evidence that the written word cannot capture the nature of that influence and therefore much of the real message is lost without the visual images that can be captured on video and multi-media. For that reason, I am supporting professional educators to use those media to develop and share their knowledge. In the visual images we can see the generative and transformative quality of the discourse which enables the creation of the knowledge that is the life and learning of teachers and administrators.
