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Blair Peterson

Change For These Kids | Connected Principals - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 25 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Why do we wait? Fear? Extra work in implementation? Budget? I am sure that I could list several reasons and to be honest, many of which are valid.
  • What about the things that we can make happen now and we know that they are right? Do we still use the same excuses above whether they are valid or not? We are all about the kids right? We need to do everything that we can for the kids we have right now.
  • Now how do we do this when so many educators are at different levels in different areas? As a school administrator, I believe we have to use the strengths of our staff and build upon those. For me to force change on for the sake of change, does not work. I need to be able to connect teachers, share their strengths with one another, and help to bu
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  • our school culture and capacity. I need to be able to clearly articulate our vision and help them understand what we are doing to obtain this reality. I do not want all of my teachers to have the exact same strengths, as that is not realistic or beneficial, but want to continue to build their leadership abilities. It is essential that if we are working in a climate of continuous change, school administration needs to create a system based upon the strengths of individuals, and build a system that utilizes these strengths to the benefit of the entire school. We need not only to have a purpose in our schools, but we need to GIVE purpose to those who are a part of our school. Find the strength of your colleagues and use them.
Blair Peterson

Opening Lines: How Famous Creators Got Their Start | Brain Pickings - 0 views

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Strengths-Based 21stcentury StudentCenteredLearning learning

shared by Blair Peterson on 14 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • At its core, Opening Lines is about providing that little boost of inspiration for those discouraged in the pursuit of their creative passions. It’s a reminder that the myth of the overnight success is just that — a myth — and that, as Thomas Edison famously remarked, stick-to-itiveness is an essential component of getting anywhere worth going.
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StudentCenteredLearning Graded21c disruptingclass innovation

shared by Blair Peterson on 05 Oct 11 - Cached
  • as software increasingly handles direct instruction, this will create big opportunities for teachers to facilitate rich and rewarding project-based learning experiences for their students to apply their learning into different contexts and gain meaningful work in the so-called 21st-century skills.
  • And as software increasingly simplifies administrative tasks and eliminates a significant need for lesson planning and delivering one-size-fits-none lessons, there will be significantly more time for teachers to work in the ways that motivated many of them to enter teaching originally—to work one-on-one and in small groups with students on the problems where they are in fact struggling.
  • Today, teachers spend a significant amount of time engaged in what we call “monolithic” activities—one-size-fits-all, standardized activities that are designed to reach the mythical middle of a class of students.
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  • On top of this, there are a lot of demands made of teachers—bolstering student learning being the overriding one, but there’s a lot of administrative asks that go along with the job, too.
  • There should also be opportunities to create a variety of differentiated roles for teachers—so that they can pursue their strengths and don’t have to be frustrated by their weaknesses (much as happens in other fields)—as well as increasingly creative opportunities for team teaching,
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