Leadership
Content that enables educators, edleaders, organizations and families to increase capacity, apply a growth mindset and implement what’s next in learning on behalf of those entrusted to them.
Innovation Leadership in Schools
Following Twitter chats on #dtk12chat and #isedchat, and after conversations about what innovation leadership means for advancement of K-12 education, Lindsey crafts a job description that could serve as a template for building innovation leadership in any school.
One Student, Five Lessons on Leadership
By: Javier Guzman. Javier, a former principal and regional director at Big Picture Learning, takes a student-centered approach to leadership and writes about the lessons learned for leading in Deeper Learning environments.
DLN Report Card Preview: Accelerating Students in Florida
By: Erin Lockett. The Digital Learning Report Card examines each state’s progress in implementing policies that give students access to quality digital learning. These advances promise to revolutionize the current K-12 education model by giving students access to far more courses, and allowing them to learn in their own way and at their own pace. Today we're highlighting progress and sharing success stories from Florida.
5 Steps to Effective and Transformative Professional Development
By: Alvin Crawford. Excellent and transformative professional development is in our reach, argues Alvin Crawford. By following these steps, we can move towards professional development that is blended, personalized, and transformative. These are changes, Alvin argues, that are needed in the field given that up to 90% of professional development is deemed ineffective.
Thrive to Survive: Arianna Huffington’s Case to Redefine Success
Thrive is a calculated declaration of defiance against our plugged-in, tuned-in, burnout culture. This culture, Arianna suggests, is leading to the erosion of our human capital.
Districts Racing to Personalize Learning
The Race to the Top-District (RTT-D) program is contributing to the changes made by districts to personalize learning and blend learning environments. In many cases, it's working. And, new roles are emerging for teacher leaders as a result.
Management And Learning: Rethinking The Role Of School Leadership
By: Lee Fleming. This "Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning" blog describes the current lack of instructional leadership among principals and calls for transformational change to shift how we prepare leaders for schools.
Collaborative Culture Fuels Meriden’s Blended Success
Meriden Public Schools is a great example of a district making progress on personalizing learning; student access to technology is improving, teacher leaders are being identified and cultivated, and blended learning strategies are being phased in. The district hosted a Blended Learning Summit (#MPSblended) that gathered fellow blended leaders in Connecticut.
Everything is Different Now: Parenting for Powerful Learning
Parenting is quite a bit different than it was when Tom and his wife Karen were busy raising their two daughters. In this post, Tom writes about the ways parenting has changed and the ways that it has stayed the same. Tom argues that the most important thing a parent can do is create lasting learning experiences for and with their child.
It’s Time to Trash the Terms “Non-Cogs” and “Soft Skills”
By: Andy Calkins. In this blog Andy suggests a deliberate adoption of language that lives up to the central importance of persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self-confidence in students’ genuine readiness for everything they encounter during their PreK-12 experience.