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organizational learning must change. There is an urgent need for organizational support functions (HR, OD, KM, Training) to move beyond offering training services and toward supporting learning as it is happening in the digitally connected workplace.

new pedagogical practices.

In 2010, when the standards were being rolled out, 500 early childhood experts –pediatricians, researchers and psychologists–found the early childhood Common Core standards to be so developmentally inappropriate that they called for their suspension in grades K-3.

where is the research to support: close reading, increased Lexile levels, the use of informational texts

Flimflam # 3: The Common Core will close the achievement gap.

According to a report by the Carnegie Corporation, the Common Core may double the drop-out rate

decrease the four year graduation rate to 53 percent

Flimflam #4: The problems with the Common Core standards can be fixed at the state and local level.

What Does Transformational Teaching Look Like?

Have students ask questions and solve real-world problems. Questions should require students to: Analyze Synthesize Create Empathize Interpret Reference background knowledge Defend alternative perspectives Determine what they know and don't know. Organize students into learning groups. Make learning segments manageable through modeling and mastery. Guide, facilitate, challenge, and support.

2. Transformational Instructors Teach Like Scientists, Artists, and Essayists

3. Transformational Teachers Model Symphonic Thinking

4. Transformational Teachers Facilitate Productive Struggle

3. Filming Videos

2. Taking Screenshots

approaches form the Qualitative Formative Assessment

4. Screencasting