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Educational Leadership:Best of Educational Leadership 2004-2005:Pathways to Reform: Sta... - 18 views

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  • Common ends, diverse pathways.
  • what makes life worth living
  • between the science of learning and the practice of teaching lie important value judgments
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  • many ways for a school to be “good
  • Normative questions are not easily settled by empirical means
  • burning desire to raise students' test scores
  • a craft model of professionalism
Matt Renwick

Don't Judge a Book by its Cover: Tech-Savvy Teens Remain Fans of Print Books - 32 views

www.nielsen.com/...emain-fans-of-print-books.html

shared by Matt Renwick on 21 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • teens' penchant for borrowing and sharing books rather than purchasing them
  • The biggest single source of influence for teen readers is enjoying an author’s previous books.
  • their paths to discovery are more dependent on word of mouth—and for today's connected teens, this often means social media.
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  • U.S. consumers over the age of 18 buy nearly 80% of young adult books, both print and digital.
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Trouble the Image | Theory and Practice - 33 views

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    If we are not sharing the powerful learning happening in our classrooms, who will?
Matt Renwick

Building A _____ Learning Movement | Getting Smart - 30 views

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trouble-the-image

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  • deeper learning–with its emphasis on core academic content, critical thinking & problem-solving, collaboration, effective communication, academic mindsets and self-directed learning
  • getting up from the table where we typically sit and inviting new people to sit at each of our tables
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Kimberly schools create award-winning literacy model - 36 views

www.postcrescent.com/...20482755

standards-of-excellence

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  • worked on a variety of skills, including sentence structure, descriptive words and spelling.
  • teachers discuss student data, lesson plans for iBlock and student progress. They exchange ideas, offer feedback and set strategies.
  • The most important thing is we've already come back now twice and refined what we've done,
Matt Renwick

The Power of Digital Story | Edutopia - 45 views

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digital storytelling

shared by Matt Renwick on 16 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • places of learning must be places of listening that allow time and space for the speed of life to be digested in a meaningful way.
  • the flood of technology tools that allow for instant communication has spun us back into a golden age where story again dominates the media landscape
  • Great digital stories are rooted in their narrative.
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  • A thousand words isn't the true power of images. Great images link story elements, humanize the abstract, and force the audience to see invisible people and places. Images are a gateway into the soul of stories.
  • the best of digital storytelling comes from the art of iteration
  • Today's best tools for digital story will quickly become relics
  • story inspires story
Matt Renwick

Beyond Technology | Theory and Practice - 71 views

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    When does tech become more than just tech, and simply how we learn?
Matt Renwick

Why Change Management Fails | Psychology Today - 51 views

www.psychologytoday.com/...why-change-management-fails

change management psychology

shared by Matt Renwick on 06 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • They fail fundamentally because it is conceived as an outside-in process, moving about parts of the organization, rather than an inside-out process which focuses on change within individuals.
  • 70% of large-scale change programs didn’t meet their goals
  • when changes fail, people often grow cynical.
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  • change doesn't happen without individual people changing their thinking, beliefs and behavior
  • think differently about their jobs
  • change efforts often falter because individuals overlook the need to make fundamental changes in themselves.
  • managers don’t act as role models for change
  • combine efforts that look outward with those that look inward
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      Matt Renwick on 07 Dec 14
       
      Kind of how we kept our vision statements, but also added the mission, instead of getting rid of the vision altogether.
  • alignment with their own life purposes
  • cognitive dissonance
  • Linking strategic and systemic intervention to genuine self-discovery and self-development by leaders is a far better path to embracing the vision of the organization and to realizing its business goals.
  • behavioral data to affect employee performance
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      Matt Renwick on 07 Dec 14
       
      How we monitor levels of instruction as a school.
  • explain that story to all of the people involved in making change happen
  • Anyone leading a major change program must take the time to think through its "story"
  • change is an inside-out process
Matt Renwick

How Black Students Tend to Learn Science - The Atlantic - 47 views

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students science atlantic beliefs+practices

shared by Matt Renwick on 05 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • limits students’ sense of isolation and fosters communal feeling among classmates
  • active learning limits students’ sense of isolation and fosters communal feeling among classmates.
  • active learning limits students’ sense of isolation and fosters communal feeling among classmates
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  • So why are students relegated to lectures when it’s proven that active learning can significantly enhance the educational experience?
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      Matt Renwick on 05 Dec 14
       
      Simple. They don't have instructional beliefs that they all agree upon. These teachers work as independent contractors, and take any criticism of their practice personally. But they forget that it is not about them. It's about the students.
Matt Renwick

Letting learning technology flourish in schools | District Administration Magazine - 24 views

www.districtadministration.com/...ng-technology-flourish-schools

beliefs+practices

shared by Matt Renwick on 04 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • They are proud because they are 1-to-1, but they are not really using it to best effect.
  • Do we think about them as essential to the core learning process or do we think of them as just nice to have?
  • at great odds with the needs of our economy right now
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  • Until we’re ready to rethink learning and teaching, how we use these devices isn’t going to change.
  • But a true performance assessment, judged by rubric or a panel of experts, is quite costly in terms of personnel and time.
  • we’ve got to have the leaders onboard
  • cognitive
Matt Renwick

Do Schools Really Need Principals? - Finding Common Ground - Education Week - 50 views

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schools principals beliefs+practices

shared by Matt Renwick on 01 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • few are prepared for the demands of a system that can't afford free riders
  • few are prepared for the demands of a system that can't afford free riders
  • few are prepared for the demands of a system that can't afford free riders
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  • What kind of legacy will you leave behind when you are finished being a principal?
  • principals who don't provide much feedback, don't seem to know a great deal about learning
  • dreams
Matt Renwick

5 Social Media Must Knows for Every Teacher | Getting Smart - 112 views

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social media knows public private

shared by Matt Renwick on 28 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • we must embrace opportunities for social media to expand capacity and facilitate education
  • Communication, Collaboration and Coordination
  • Use social media for a call to action.
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