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Education Innovation: Essential Education: Three Laws of Performance
Steve Cunnigham's video summary of the book The Three Laws of Performance by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan
Listening to Student Voices
Listening to Student Voices is a toolkit for K - 12 educational leaders
and school-based teams interested in including students in continuous school
improvement.
Treating the "instructional core": Education rounds
“Teaching causes learning.” While this might seem obvious, teaching is often the last focus of education—shifted to the side by standardized testing, changing curricula, faculty room politics, overbearing or aloof administrators, and shrinking school budgets. And yet, argue the book's authors, the “instructional core”—the essential interaction between teacher, student, and content that creates the basis of learning— is the first place that schools should look to improve student learning. Now a time-honored tradition borrowed from medical practice is helping school leaders gain new insights into teachers' work.
Harvard Education Letter
Lee Teitel, co-author of Instructional Rounds, provides a summary description of the rationale and process of conducting tightly focused network observations of instruction using a non-judgmental descriptive approach, analyzing, predicting, and projection of "the next level of work" in a school's implementation of an instructional initiative.
Weblogg-ed » “Willing to be Disturbed”
The cohort group had been meeting throughout the summer, focusing on learning about social networks, on making connections, reading blogs, trying Twitter and Facebook, and thinking about social tools in the context of their curriculum. The teachers come from every discipline, from math to special education to media specialists. ... [The Supt] started by asking everyone to read Margaret Wheatley’s “Willing to be Disturbed.”
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The cohort group had been meeting throughout the summer, focusing on learning about social networks, on making connections, reading blogs, trying Twitter and Facebook, and thinking about social tools in the context of their curriculum. The teachers come from every discipline, from math to special education to media specialists.
AllThingsPLC » Blog Archive » Three Rules Help Manage Assessment Data
Thomas Meany summarizes..."a conversation with Damon Lopez, former principal of Los Penasquitos Elementary School in San Diego. Lopez believes that in order for teachers to maximize the impact of data gleaned from assessments, principals should honor three rules and ensure that data is 1) easily accessible, 2) purposefully arranged, and 3) publicly discussed. In those schools where “making meaning” of assessment data is a powerful experience, principals take responsibility for creating the necessary structures associated with the first two rules and insist that teachers commit to the last. Rather than working individually to make meaning of assessment data, the most successful principals have discovered it is far more productive to create the conditions under which teams of teachers can make meaning of the data.
Christine Whitney Sanchez LLC - Home
A well-organized web-site linking Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space Technology, and World Cafe - and a combined process called Methods of Strategic Collaboration that uses the AI 4D framework and draws on the three approaches to fill in the processes.
Perils of the Pre-Ask_ Causing Awareness of Action_ Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog
"If I asked you, would you say 'yes'?" "Ask, and find out!" Cause action not awareness; awareness as papering the world with brochures from airplanes. Nice post!
Curriculum Leadership Journal | Professional learning: developing professional learning for instructional improvement
AISQ Briefing on Professional Learning
Who Will Teach The Teachers - Weblogg-ed » Boomerang
Will Richardson and son, Tucker, leanring about the boomerang
New Zealand's Education Counts
Indicators re: quality in education, syntheses of research re 'best practice', and a host of other items from the New Zealand Ministery of Education. Many downloadables.
AllThingsPLC - How will we respond when students don’t learn?
PLCs and RtI - the relationship summarized
Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand
Is there really a shortage of students/graduates appropriately prepared in math & science? Is there evidence of a shortage of qualified applicants in science/engineering fields? No - says the data summarized by authors Lowell and Salzman in this Urban Ins
Philadelphia Education Fund
Home page; see also Mission for history and vision; see also MGM: Middle Grades Matter (dropout prevention research and approaches); Math Science Coalition
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