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Top Ten Things I Ask of SLA Teachers.
10. Take care of yourself. Teaching is a marathon, not a sprint, and SLA teachers do put themselves out there early and often. I want my teachers to take time for themselves every day. I want SLA teachers to take trips, go to conferences, spend time with family and spend time with each other when they don't talk about school.
9. Understand that your class is but one of five or six or seven classes that kids have. Understand that school is one of many things in a teenager's life. And while what goes on in your class is important, I ask that teachers remember that, at any given moment in time, there are pressures on their kids' lives that makes what goes on in our classes seem powerfully inconsequential.
8. Never be afraid to bring an idea or a critique or a thought to me. Never be afraid to tell me what you think.
7. Be as transparent as possible. That means giving students opportunities to publish their work to the world. That means opening your door to colleagues, to parents, to visitors. That means never playing "gotcha" with the kids with your expectations.
6. Remember that benevolent dictatorship may make for an orderly class, but it rarely helps kids become better people. Giving kids opportunities to feel ownership of the classroom is important because, in the end, you can get what you want or you can get much more.
5. Remember that inquiry isn't just for kids. If we want our kids to always push themselves to question more, dig deeper, figure it out for themselves, we must be willing to do that too.
4. Take ownership of major pieces of the school outside your classroom. SLA works because everyone takes on pieces of it. Run a club, chair a committee, write a grant, do the thing you always wanted to do in a school but never thought the structure of school could support.
3. Be part of a community of teachers and learners and speak the same language. Kids spend too much time in schools figuring out teachers, and that detracts from the powerful work they can do for themselves, not for us. It is why I ask all teachers at SLA to always incorporate the core values into their planning, why we all use Understanding by Design to plan our units, why we all use the same rubric to grade all our projects. When we speak the same language about the way we teach and learn, kids can get down to the work of learning more quickly.
2. Treat your class as a lens, not a silo. The goal is for our kids to be well-rounded, thoughtful citizens. Remember that if you're lucky, 10% of the kids in your class will major in your subject. Make sure the other 90% understand how what they are learning with you helps them to be a better person.
1. Remember that we teach students before we teach subjects. I ask that all SLA teachers understand and live the profound difference between the statements, "I teach history," and "I teach kids history." Children should never be the implied object of their own education.
And one more - Be kind. Be kind to your students, to your colleagues, even to your principal. Whatever you do, be kind.
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George LewisChris Lehmann's blog. Lehmann is principal of Science Leadership Academy, in Philly. SLA hosts the EduCon conference.
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Lee FinkelsteinBlog about educational leadership, teaching and learning
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André RouxChris Lehmann est le directeur du Science Leadership Academy à Philadelphia. C'est un homme engagé qui croit au renouveau.
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Lynnette ZikaThose of us who work in education talk a lot about student engagement, but I don’t think that goes far
enough. Engagement is certainly better than boredom, but schools should set the bar for themselves is
much higher. What schools should strive for is student empowerment. Chris Lehman, Principal, Science Leadership Academy -
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at right with me. There are a couple of reasons for this... first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and han
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k a lot about student engagement, but I don’t think that goes far enough. Engagement is certainly better than boredom, but schools shou
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rship magazine, I wrote this:
Those of us who work in education talk a lot about student engagement, but I don’t think that goes far enough. Engagement is certainly better than boredom, but sch
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Empowerment -- Some Early Thoughts...
Wed, 30.12.2009 07:27
Ah yes, 'empowerment'.
Such an 80's word.
That's not a bad thing!
It just reminds me of the
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ceolaf about Engagement v. Empowerment -- Some Early Thoughts...
Mon, 28.12.2009 21:06
Mr. Long,
With ELA, there is no
essential text or even
collection of texts. We
have far more [...]
Christian Long about Engagement v. Empowerment -- Some Early Thoughts...
Mon, 28.12.2009 16:11
@ceolaf: Enjoyed reading
your point re: the "NEXT
book" (et al).
No doubt we serve few
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ceolaf about Engagement v. Empowerment -- Some Early Thoughts...
Mon, 28.12.2009 15:54
This, in part, gets to
the difference between
"interesting" and "fun."
More importantly, it is
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Karen Szymusiak about Engagement v. Empowerment -- Some Early Thoughts...
Mon, 28.12.2009 14:11
Your post is thought
provoking. In school, it
feels like the teacher is
the one who sets the
stage [...]
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Engagement v. Empowerment -- Some Early Thoughts...
[I've written about this in a roundabout way before... I'm hoping this blog post is the beginning of me hashing out -- in writing -- the evolution of my thoughts on this topic.]
In my recent article in Principal Leadership magazine, I wrote this:
Those of us who work in education talk a lot about student engagement, but I don’t think that goes far enough. Engagement is certainly better than boredom, but schools should set the bar for themselves is much higher. What schools should strive for is student empowerment.
For the longest time, the idea of engagement has dominated the conversation in ed-tech, and it's never quite sat right with me. There are a couple of reasons for this... first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and hanging out after school and everything kids do for fun that isn't school. We lose that battle most of the time almost by definition. (And that's not because kids are kids... it's because kids are people. I love my job, but in any isolated moment, would I rather be hanging out with my kids or my wife or my friends or playing Ultimate or basketball or reading a book of my own choosing? Easy choice.)
We chose engagement because it beats boring. But it's not a goal. And in fact, I think it's created some weird developments in education because too many folks have set it up as a goal, because teachers have been placed in a position where the engagement of the student created a performance aspect to class that, in the end, didn't serve the goal of student learning.
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We chose engagement because it beats boring
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Empowerment feels better to me
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For the longest time, the idea of engagement has dominated the conversation in ed-tech, and it's never quite sat right with me. There are a couple of reasons for this... first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and hanging out after school and everything kids do for fun that isn't school. We lose that battle most of the time almost by definition. (And that's not bec -
first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and hanging out after school and everything kids do for fun that isn't school.
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first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and hanging out after school and everything kids do for fun that isn't school.
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at right with me. There are a couple of reasons for this... first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and han
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ng out after school and everything kids do for fun that isn't school. We lose that battle most of the time almost by definition. (And that's not because kids are kid
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at right with me. There are a couple of reasons for this... first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and han
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first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and hanging out after school and everything kids do for fun that isn't school.
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Tim DonahueChris Lehman - Principal at Science Leadership Academy - His blogs and thoughts on leading the school
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Robert MurphyChris Lehman - 21st Century Learning
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Meredith MelragonChris Lehman Principal from Science Leadership Academy
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Donna ShannonChris Lehman blog--principal of Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia
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Peter AltbuchEd Blog - Review of a variety of practices by Principal of Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia
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Honor MoormanChris Lehman, principal of the Science Leadership Academy
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Adam DeWittWho I am: Chris Lehmann
What I do: Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA (Opening 9/06).
What I did: Technology Coordinator / English Teacher / Girls Basketball Coach / Ultimate Coach at the Beacon School, a fantastic progressive public high school in Manhattan.
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I spent today with about 150 administrators from the Winston-Salem, NC school district. It was a really wonderful day, as we spent six hours looking at what innovation can look like and how administrators can look at the systems and structures of their schools. (The slideshare is at the bottom of the post.)
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here's an impromptu meeting about how to get schools up and running on Moodle
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I've been feeling this for a while, lately.
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hat struck me was how quickly the conversation is evolving. Yes, people still are nervous about using the tools an
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And what struck me was how quickly the conversation is evolving. Yes, people still are nervous about using the tools and still want to know about how they are going to make this all work, but days lik
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sits with his administrators for six hours and does the work right along with them, when Moodle comes up as part of the conversation, and
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in a lot of places. The tools are new anymore, and many places have pockets of innovation and now many folks are asking how to do it systemically. And more and more a
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But I digress. Today is for feeling hopeful.)
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Sarah TolchChris Lehmann Blog
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