personalized learning
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.
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.
Instructional Leadership through Focused Observation and Feedback
By: Sarah-Jane Caban. As part of our Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning series, Sarah-Jane writes about Relay's Graduate School and their work to help prepare principals for Deeper Learning environments through their program, The National Principals Academy Fellowship.
The Transformational Leader
By: Carmen Coleman. In this blog for our Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning series, Carmen writes about the need for education transformation, and what skills leaders need to help better meet the needs of 21st century learners.
Helping Chief Academic Officers Make The Shift From Managed Instruction To Personalized Learning
School district CAOs know how to build and run managed instruction regimes.Now they're trying to pivot to blended learning and they're getting a lot of pressure from their boss and teachers to consider updates. We explore the difference between managed instruction and next generation learning, and share 10 elements of comprehensive solutions to the challenge of helping chief academic officers reframe their work.
Leadership Development in US Schools: The Opposite of Good
The new demands being put on school and systems leaders mean we need new ways of developing and cultivating school leadership.
For Deeper Learning, Transform Schools Into Leadership Machines
By: Bryan & Emily Hassel. A new model for Deeper Learning leadership which includes advocating for new models of leadership including multi-school leadership models.
4 Key Attributes for Deeper Learning Leadership
By: Kyle McCartney. Being flexible, bringing energy and enthusiasm every single day, and having the courage to take risks: All of these can lead to great success as a leader. Leadership in Deeper Learning schools means being able to commit to these 4 key leadership attributes.
The Teaching Brain and the Science Behind Great Teaching
In this book review, Bonnie explores a new book that seeks to explain the science behind effective teaching. She details highlights from the book, including the importance of teacher metacognition and the student:teacher interaction.