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Great ideas to provoke thought, discussion, and PLC fodder! 

This is the report published by the Wisconsin School Administrators' Alliance in the summer of 2010 (I think). Check out the part on A Visionary Tale on page 9. Hat-tip to Mary Bowen-Eggebraaten for forwarding this piece on to me.

Very nice. AND, as the report indicates, leadership and community need to be included. This means you need the school board to play a role. They are the conduit to the community. Public education has been down the transformation road before. In some ways we are not inventing anything new here. John Dewey championed experiential learning as the public education system developed a century ago. Progressive educators tried in the 1930s and 1960s to introduce experiential learning into the system. The grammar of schooling, the deep structure, the notion of "real school" all pull the system back into the status quo. We need to remain cognizant of these dynamics and consider how to address them if we want to see the promise of the ideas contained in this report become a reality. You have to connect the ideas outlined in this report to the notion of collective impact. I think this idea is key to seeing a different outcome: http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/2197/

I want to be clear: I am a supporter of the ideas contained in the Wisconsin Vision report. I also want to be sure we take a realists view of how to make it happen. I do not want to see this effort and the ideas of CESAs 1 and 6, wind up in the history books like past transformation efforts.

What does it take to get politicians and the general public to abandon misleading ideas, such as, "Anyone who tries can pull themselves up by the bootstraps," or that "Teachers are the most important factor in determining the achievement of our youth"? Many ordinary citizens and politicians believe these statements to be true, even though life and research informs us that such statements are usually not true. citizens calling for school reform without thinking about economic and social reforms are probably being foolish. The likelihood of affecting school achievement positively is more likely to be found in economic and social reforms, in the second bill of rights, than it is in NCLB, the common core of standards, early childhood and many assessments after that, value-added assessments, and the like. More than educational policies are needed to improve education.

I am really good at doing this. 

Re-branding school leadership. 

Thanks Brad.

Rewarding initiative and effort.

Ideas for Using Cellphones in the Classroom

Interesting leadership ideas from a person that always thought out of the box - Steve Jobs

Love this idea for changing attitudes and image. No more apple crap!

The concept of hackerspaces and fab labs are really taking hold. Neat ideas, but how will NCLB measure the results? (Can you sense the sarcasm?) 

RECHarge Ed - Unconference connecting ideas that make learning personal

I can think of five educationally geared ways that I can use the hacks contained in this article if youtube was freed from our filtering system. Do you have any ideas? 

Appreciated this site and immediately sent it out to our administrators. We're active users of YouTube in Hudson.

Welcome, Mary!

Love this. Great idea long the lines of "You might be a redneck if. . . " This would be a great wiki to being as an extension to our Diigo Social Bookmarking. Go to http://youmightbe21stcentury.wikispaces.com/, click "edit" and add your thoughts to this wiki. 

Great concepts about the intersection of work and life. 

Really neat communication ideas for literacy!

A great graphic (and a great blog for ideas). Tell me what you think!

I like it. I think it could serve as a great tool for helping board members understand technology. I think you should write a piece for the School News using these concepts.

Thoughtful article on student blogging. Does anyone else have any good ideas on why students should blog? 

Fundamentals of administrative leadership

Very neat article with actual resources for BYOD (mobile mostly).