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EdTech
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.
Personalized Learning
Creating Sound Policy For Digital Learning
Fordham released two important papers today as part of the Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning series. The first, Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction, is by the co-directors of Public Impact. Bryan and Emily Hassel are the Gladwells of education—they point to profound truths hiding in plan sight. In short, this is the best current description of the implications of digital learning on learning professionals.
Leadership
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.”
Leadership
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.
EdTech
Review: Make Just One Change
In many classrooms today, students are asked to take in knowledge and information and answer assessment questions on it later. This is normal practice. Yet, how often - early on - do we ask students to formulate their own questions to target the how and why of subjects in the classroom? While teaching how to ask questions appears to be an obvious learning technique, it's one that could use more attention.
Leadership
Good Work: Challenging the Status Quo
During early morning coffee shop tutorials, Rudy Crew would carefully smooth a napkin and then draw a picture of how things should work. When I was a school superintendent, Dr. Crew was superintendent in the neighboring district. One of the first ways he encouraged me to challenge the…
Personalized Learning
Good Work: Inspiring a Shared Vision
The future always holds something for the individual who keeps her faith in it. Being a leader puts you in some pretty awkward situations. As a public school superintendent, I work for five elected board members. They seldom agreed on where we had been or…
Personalized Learning
Stumbling around in the dark
Rocky Point, Poverty Bay WA The last few nights have been cool and clear with a bright moon, but not this morning. The tide was low at 5am, an invitation to run on the beach instead of the boardwalk, but it was really dark. To reach a…
EdTech
The old deal, the new deal, and the metrics
I don’t know about you, but I’m not paying much attention to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) debates in Washington. NCLB, flawed as it was, represented a bipartisan commitment to equity and an end to the toleration of chronic failure. What’s going on now (this weird local…
EdTech
Webinar: Blended Learning Case Studies with Michael B. Horn
Connections Learning is hosting a webinar on "Blended Learning Case Studies: How Brick and Mortar Schools are Taking Advantage of Online Learning Options" tomorrow, Wednesday 19, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. EST.