leadership
Personalized Learning
4 Essential Competency-Based Education Commitments for HigherEd Leaders
If higher education institutions can remain focused on these core commitments, then competency-based education can make a substantive contribution to improving the quality of education, access for those not well served by traditional models, and building a closer relationship with employers and improved employability for graduates.
Leadership
Education Leadership Strategies, Mindsets and Tools for Back to School
By: Tiffany Della Vedova. As leaders, we must work to adapt our leadership mindset and tools to fit the new environment we have helped to establish. And, having set our GPS to 21st century learning, we must pack our bags with 21st century leadership tools as we embark on this year’s learning adventure.
Leadership
New Thinking On Leadership Development: Mindsets, Investment, Diversity, and Responsiveness
By: Jimmy Henderson. There is no shortage of passionate, smart, and talented professionals in the industry. So why is it so hard to find the leaders we need to help teachers and students succeed?
Leadership
7 Leadership Competencies for Whole-System Change
There are leaders, and there are EdLeaders. Then there are leaders among EdLeaders--like Lyle Kirtman and Michael Fullan. This expert duo, applying decades of work in the field, recently came together to write and release a powerful guidebook for leading systemic (and sustainable) change. "Leadership: Key Competencies for Whole-System Change," published by Solution Tree.
EdTech
2016 SXSWedu PanelPicker is Open!
The SXSWedu PanelPicker is open from now until Friday, September 4. Take a second, register, and click to give these sessions the thumbs up! Austin or bust.
Leadership
Infographic | 11 Tips for Work/Life Balance
As parents, educators and business leaders we should keep in mind tips for finding the elusive work/life balance.
Personalized Learning
Are You Ready to Be a Change-Agent for Agency?
It’s time that we let go and gave back our students’ agency to learn. It’s time that we gave up the controls, so that our students can learn how to drive their own learning lives, time that we took control of our own learning to help our kids.
Leadership
How School Districts Work
School districts have a theory of action but often can’t express it. Naming the theories in use is key to designing a system that serves a community well.
Leadership
Leading Public Schools: 10 Roles You Probably Didn’t Prepare For
After spending time with urban districts recently, we were reminded of the complexity of the work that superintendents are responsible for. In our recent paper, Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning we outlined 10 roles for today's EdLeaders. In this blog we share important emerging skills associated with these 10 roles.
Ed Policy
9 Digital Learning Resources: Hitting Refresh on the #SmartSeries
This summer we worked with Digital Learning Now to hit refresh on a series of papers that provide specific guidance regarding the adoption of higher standards and quality assessments focusing on the shift to personalized digital learning.