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Successful Teaching: The “Assembly Line” Classroom
A great post that ties in with the book I was reading for my EP7040: Planning in Education & Health Services class called Influencer. It had a number of parallels to chapter 9, Change the Environment.
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I began to think of the assembly lines our students go through. In each grade, we put another little part on our students and move them on their way the next year. Each year we add more pieces until we think they are completely “built” at the end of 12th grade
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The education system expects that all students are made the same way and need the same parts, which are all added the same way. Then it hopes to get the same exact product at the end of 12 years. It doesn’t work that way! Our classrooms should not just be assembly lines. We should be looking at the whole student and not just the parts.
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Amazon.com: Influencer: The Power to Change Anything: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler: Books
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Amazon.com: Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, Revised Edition: James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner: Books
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Amazon.com: The Systems Thinking Approach to Strategic Planning and Management: Stephen Haines: Books
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Amazon.com: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness: Stephen R. Covey: Books
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Amazon.com: Hot, Flat, and Crowded (Why We Need A Green Revolution - And How It Can Renew America): Thomas L. Friedman: Books
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Turn that org chart upside-down! | Information Wants To Be Free
In the post, Swartz also talks about learning about your employees (what motivates them, what their strengths/weaknesses are), delegating responsibilities, prioritizing, and offering feedback. There’s a lot of really great insight in this post (which is more like an instruction manual than a simple blog post), so if you’re a manager or an aspiring manager, it’s definitely worth reading.
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Instead of the standard “org chart” with a CEO at the top and employees growing down like roots, turn the whole thing upside down. Employees are at the top — they’re the ones who actually get stuff done — and managers are underneath them, helping them to be more effective.
Paradox of success: the Stockdale Paradox -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone
“This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
Amazon.com: The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield: John McPhee: Books
Recommended by my professor, he wanted us to focus on where Frank Boyden placed his desk. Think accessibility, communication and removing barriers.
Education, Leading and Learning
A forum to share ideas that will help transform the organizations we work in into constantly evolving communities capable of continually learning from the exciting challenges that lie ahead.
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If we are to realize the creativity and talents of all who work with us we
will need inspired leadership at all levels. Leaders who can align the energy of
all behind sense of direction provided by the creation of a shared vision,
unifying values and common beliefs about how people learn.
Baldrige National Quality Program
To enhance the competitiveness, quality, and productivity of U.S. organizations for the benefit of all residents.
VitalSmarts - Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
David Maxfield's web accompaniment to his book Influencer.
New Hampshire High School Redesign
Re-envisioning education at the high school level by supporting student ownership of their academic careers, goals and aspirations
Baldrige Press Release- Chugach School District - Voyage to Excellence
Chugach School District is committed to developing and supporting a partnership with parents, community and business which equally shares the responsibility of preparing students to meet the challenges of the ever changing world in which they live."
Find their planning timeline (hint: click the image/icon to download)
Jenks Public Schools
Find their planning timeline
Pearl River Schools - Quality in Education
Find their planning timeline
Myrna Associates, Inc. - Leading facilitator of strategic planning in the US
Identifies 10 secrets to successful planning - find out a secret, email to instructor\n\nExplore white papers
The Grove - Change Consultants
The Grove designs visually based tools and services that enable organizations, teams and individuals to successfully visualize and implement innovation and change.
Watch video and investigate how they relate to theory of process (law of 7) and the creation of their planning model based on The Reflexive Universe (Arthur M. Young)
The World is Flat | MIT World
Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as Thomas Friedman learned first hand, “Grandma Betty in her bathrobe” will make your Jet Blue plane reservation from her Salt Lake City home. In “Globalization 3.0,” Friedman contends, people from far-flung places will become principal players in the marketplace. In his latest book, The World is Flat, Friedman describes the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts that effectively leveled the economic world, and “accidentally made Beijing, Bangalore and Bethesda next-door neighbors.” Today, “individuals and small groups of every color of the rainbow will be able to plug and play.” Friedman’s list of “flatteners” includes the fall of the Berlin Wall; the rise of Netscape and the ...
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