When I was in Seattle, several people mentioned I looked like Jerry Garcia. This was a first and might be a Canadian thing. Does Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead have the following here as in the US. I told my students about the comparison and within minutes they had gone on the Internet and found images of Jerry Garcia to compare. Today, I played some Grateful Dead and students watched videos. I mentioned, “I don’t see the similarity,” but several students disagreed.
I will leave it to you to offer a definitive answer. Here is an image of Jerry Garcia and the other of me. The Garcia image came from a Forbes article comparing the leadership of Steve Jobs and Jerry Garcia and the article is a good read.
Personally, I don’t see it.
About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope, nonviolence and its anticipatory relationship with the future, as essential elements to teaching and learning.
Academic publications can be found at Ivon Gile Prefontaine on ResearchGate
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