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More State Control—And Why That’s A Good Thing
With the great unbundling of NCLB, control is being ceded back to states and they continue to aggregate control from districts. State leadership matters more than ever. Every state should have a Chief for Change like Huffman at the helm. Every state should have an RSD led by a proven operator like Barbic. Every state should have a robust authorizing shop with pathways for high performers, first timers, innovators, improvers and conversions.
How Will the Shift to Digital Learning Happen?
New schools can provide quality options and great examples of what's possible but they won't serve many students. Here's ten change strategies that build on trends and may accelerate the transition to personal digital learning.
A 2020 Vision for Riverside Unified School District
By: David Haglund The introduction of information technologies into virtually every aspect of our lives has led education leaders, parents, and students to think differently about where and how learning takes place. Traditional concepts of schools, classrooms, and learning are being challenged as technologies introduce new ideas and capabilities into the system and new school models are emerging (e.g., Riverside Virtual School www.rvslink.net). Beyond the school walls, the global business market is demanding a new set of skills from college graduates and has an increasingly growing pool of workers from which to draw the best qualified employees.
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…
Is Your School Preparing Learners for Success? 5 Questions to Consider
This post by Shane Krukowski first appeared on Innovative Educator on 11/23/11. Shane is CEO of Project Foundry, a great project-based learning platform. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” ~C. S. Lewis Redesigning education involves much…
Good Work: Flower Planting & Brand Building
Choosing a discipline is the choice of winners. –Michael Tracy and Fred Wiersema The Nike swoosh on so many shoes and clothes has become synonymous with the “Just Do It” attitude. It captures the soul of the youth culture and personifies Nike’s niche. Brands like the Nike swoosh…
Free, Mobile, Clouds and Other Innovation Topics
We can’t reform our way to the education our kids need for their future. The gap between what they need and what our Bismarckian schools can produce is widening. This is a problem of obsolesce not effort or intent (at least in most places). Telling one teacher to differentiate instruction…
Q&A: Dan Rothstein & Luz Santana On Make Just One Change
Last week, we reviewed Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana’s new book Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions, a book that outlines the ways teachers can improve students’ ability to formulate effective questions for learning. This week, Rothstein and Santana have answered some additional questions for us about where the Question Formulation Technique™ (QFT™) originated and how it’s an ongoing discussion among educators today.
Good Work: A Pretty Good Place to Work
After a long weekend I was excited about coming back to work as a public school superintendent but fresh holiday intentions were distracted an hour into the day. People were lined up at my door, “I just can’t get along with her.” “I don’t get any recognition for my hard work.” “It’s out of control—you need to fix this.”
Good Work: Enabling Others to Act
Give the folks you work with ownership by involving them in decision making, delegating authority as well as responsibility, and backing them up when they fail. They will work harder, stay longer, and make it better. Enable others to do good work.