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Dave Truss

21st Century Skills are so last century! ~ Stephen's Web - 4 views

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    My list is very different: - emergent thinking: extracting patterns, rules, regularities, prototypes - sensing value - finding meaning, truth, relevance, purpose, goals - acting semiotically - using signs, signals, art, desig, etc., to do things - seeing beyond - describing, defining, drawing conclusions, explaining data - ecological sensitivity - placing in context, seeing frames, making meaning - living in change - understanding flow, adaptation, progression
Dave Truss

Words Matter | Boundaries - David Jakes - 1 views

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    How important is it to step beyond boundaries to test ideas and to test yourself? Beyond the boundary lies the potential for disruption, for innovation, for a different way.  Between the two, is the edge, the tension and dynamic between what has always been and what could be. ...stepping beyond the comfort of the status quo is how you become great.  It's how you become a true leader.  It's what true leaders do, and do without regret or pause. Because it's really the only way.
Dave Truss

The Fischbowl: The Perfect Gift for School Leaders - 4 views

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    Looking for that perfect gift for the leaders in your school or district? Not sure what to get that principal or superintendent that has everything? Search no more. Get them What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media
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Seth's Blog: Change and its constituents (there are two, and both are a problem) - 0 views

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    People who fear they will be hurt by a change speak up immediately, loudly and without regard for the odds or reality. People who will benefit from a change don't believe it (until it happens), so they sit quietly. And that's why change in an organization is difficult.
Dave Truss

Comparing 20th and 21st Century Educational Paradigms | Educational Origami - 1 views

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    I sat down this morning and tried to put together a comparison of 20th and 21st Century educational paradigms. This is what I came up with.
Dave Truss

A 5 country brain dump - 1 views

  • Using my school as an example….I beleive the only outcomes we need for any lesson are these factors that my school has agreed upon: Learning is the primary focus of our school and we recognize learning as a life-long adventure. We value meaningful learning where students construct enduring understanding by developing and applying knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Increased understanding is evidenced by students who: - Explain its relevance - Describe how it connects to or conflicts with prior learning - Communicate it effectively to others - Generalize and apply it effectively to new situations - Reflect critically on their own and other’s learning - Ask questions to extend learning - Create meaningful solutions
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    Learning is the primary focus of our school and we recognize learning as a life-long adventure. We value meaningful learning where students construct enduring understanding by developing and applying knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Increased understanding is evidenced by students who: - Explain its relevance - Describe how it connects to or conflicts with prior learning - Communicate it effectively to others - Generalize and apply it effectively to new situations - Reflect critically on their own and other's learning - Ask questions to extend learning - Create meaningful solutions
Dave Truss

FedEx Prep: Time for Innovation | Connected Principals - 0 views

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    # I will provide you with an extra prep per week ("A Fed Ex Prep") for 6 straight weeks. This would be prep-free for you as I would prep whichever subject the you would like. The time is also negotiable (ie. if you would rather have 2 periods a week for 3 weeks). # This time will be self-directed to ANYTHING you want with the only goal that you must DELIVER your ideas.
Dave Truss

A Principal's Reflections: What Constitutes Good Instruction? - 1 views

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    As a Principal, one of my most important responsibilities is the evaluation of instruction... The trick is being able to effectively identify those areas and engage the teacher in a constructive dialogue that results in improved practice. Here is what I look for:
Dave Truss

Project Red: Do 1:1 right or don't do it at all | ZDNet - 0 views

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    All of these data were ultimately distilled to those 9 factors (called Key Implementation Factors, or KIFs in the Project documentation) that need to be present in a school to truly realize the full potential of major 1:1 investments. While each factor is worth a post or two in and of itself, I'll just list them here.
Dave Truss

My TEDx Experience « Chris Kennedy & Students Live! Olympic Reporters - 0 views

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    "It was hard! As a teacher, I think sometimes we say that technology is going to make teaching easier. It's not. It's going to make it different."
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Developing a Connected Learning Community | always learning - 0 views

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    Setting the Stage: First Steps Toward 1:1 The first few months in a new school are always extra hectic, and this semester has been even more crazy than usual, because we have been working on several different facets of technology and learning here at YIS, in preparation for 1:1 next year. Here's what we've done so far:
Dave Truss

Be there. | Connected Principals - 0 views

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    A few weeks ago I thought to myself, "Wouldn't it be amazing to experience an entire school day in the life of a first grader?" I glanced at my calendar, noticed, despite being few and far between, there were some days without any scheduled meetings or commitments. Right then and there, I blocked off days for every grade level and specialist class in my building.
Dave Truss

Will you take the Professional Learning challenge? | Inter.Connect.Ed - 1 views

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    How can we do Professional Learning Differently?
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I Believe. You? | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

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    Great post... worth reading more than once. "...I believe the classroom should be a place that is sometimes in the world and sometimes removed from it."
Dave Truss

Educational Ice Axes: The Art of Self-Arrest « Molehills out of Mountains - 0 views

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    Here are three tools that educators can provide students to help prepare them to "self arrest" in the event of an academic or social slip. Personal Relationships: Connectedness: Educational Autonomy:
Dave Truss

Online Learning is so last year… | 21st Century Collaborative - 0 views

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    I want, more than anything else, to leave a legacy in education. I want what I spend my time doing to add value to the profession and to support teachers in helping their students self actualize. I also want to be part of lighting a fire that results in a learning revolution.
Dave Truss

Describing the classrooms and schools we want - 0 views

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    So, I got thinking about what I want for my grandchildren and decided that I would try to begin to describe it and put it 'out there'.  
Dave Truss

What Do We Mean by Authentic Learning? | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

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    Learning goes deep. Evidence of higher order thinking.  Real and substantive conversations.  Personal learning.  Autonomy, mastery, purpose, choice, self-direction. 21st century skills integration. Reflecting
Dave Truss

7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals -- THE Journal - 1 views

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    The conventional wisdom in education is that any school reform--be it curriculum, instruction, assessment, or teacher professionalism--is most likely to take hold in schools that have strong leadership. The same holds true for technology.
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    I agree with Dave's observation. We have four elementary buildings in our district, each with a different principal and each with a distinctive leadership strength. It's just like when I was teaching, I tended to teach to my strengths and had to remind myself to be well-rounded, but my classrooms definitely had a technology slant to them. Now as a building principal, my staff professional development is also slanted to the technology side. That part comes easier to me. I just have to work harder at curriculum and instruction pieces when I "marry" them all together.
Dave Truss

The Need for Innovative Leadership - 6 views

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    We are not going to have all of the answers or a foundation of knowledge and experience to guide us, which is somewhat daunting... What we do know is that we are open and committed to the learning that we, alongside our students, are going to experience during this process
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