principals
Leadership
Preparing Principals Like CEOs
Rice Education Entrepreneurship Program believes that preparing principals to run their schools like CEOs will enable them to solve problems, manage resources, and transform their schools.
Ed Policy
Preparing Principals: Best Practices and Next Steps
In the third of three posts on principal preparation and development Tom shares Best practices, next steps and recommendations to preparing principals to boost the achievement of American students.
Leadership
Next Gen Principal Prep: Blended, Personalized, Competency-based
It’s time to rethink leadership preparation in education. The linear model is obsolete, expensive, and time consuming. It’s time for new pathways and new partnerships that prepare leaders for the schools our young people deserve. New models of preparation must be about matching leadership to the next generation environment where they will serve.
Leadership
Why Teachers Need, Deserve Instructional Leaders
By: Preston Smith. Most importantly, what that means is that our school leaders spend 70%-80% of their time. Our school leaders collaborate on coaching and spend anywhere between 20 minutes and an hour in each teacher’s classroom every week.
Ed Policy
Preparing School Leaders
It's exciting and encouraging to see some of the folks training high performing leaders thinking about blended personalized learning for leaders--not just students. It suggests the potential for more efficient and effective replacements for the system of courses, credits, and credentials. However, enacting these ten attributes at scale would require new state policies governing licensure.
EdTech
What is the Problem With Professional Development?
Courtney Hanes explains the idea of shifting from professional development to professional growth.
Leadership
10 Things Next Gen Districts Will Do Well
What will next generation districts do well? In the last week I've had the opportunity to discuss that question with hundreds of school board members and superintendents.
Personalized Learning
10 Things School Leaders Should Do to Boost Blended Learning
During a couple breakout sessions at a Rhode Island conference on Innovation Powered by Technology (#iptrideconf) I spent time with teachers and principals thinking about next steps as they prepare for the shift to personal digital learning. We discussed 10 next steps.
Personalized Learning
6 Ways Digital Learning is Changing Teaching
I visited Wireless Generation, a leading education technology company, in Brooklyn this week. In a discussion about Getting Smart, a couple dozen employees including teachers and technologists asked great questions about the future of learning. Here are two more. As someone who has, within the last decade, been a…
Personalized Learning
The Art of Balancing Execution & Innovation
Every school needs an execution agenda to improve the quality of instruction around an adopted curriculum. Every school needs an innovation agenda. Finding the right balance is the art of leadership and the product of dialog.