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susan  carter morgan

The Power of Vision | Edu-Leaders - 4 views

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    Visioning should result in change not word play
Demetri Orlando

Texas administrators share vision to change schools - 0 views

  • The school administrators want to return control to principals, teachers, parents, school board members and others at the local level —
  • School can be a very boring place for a student sitting at a desk all day
  • emphasizes sanctions rather than rewards
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    I'm interested that they seem to be recommending moving towards more school-based decision making- one of the defining traits of independent schools
Sarah Hanawald

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Century Learning - 0 views

  • The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has developed a unified, collective vision for 21st century learning that can be used to strengthen American education. The key elements of 21st century learning are represented in the graphic and descriptions below. The graphic represents both 21st century skills student outcomes (as represented by the arches of the rainbow) and 21st century skills support systems (as represented by the pools at the bottom):
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    sort of the "official" publication about 21st Century Learning
Demetri Orlando

Coming Together to Give Schools a Boost - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • Above all, they say, partners must come together and agree not just on common goals, but shared ways to measure success towards those goals. They must communicate on a regular basis. And there must be a “backbone” organization that is focused full-time on managing the partnership.
  • war rooms” in each school. Teachers have meetings every two weeks, where they closely monitor students’ progress
  • the network can engage in continuous learning based on evidence.
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  • In education, data has traditionally been used for punitive purposes, not for improvement
  • “The key to making a partnership work is setting a common vision and finding a common language. You can’t let people get focused on ideological or political issues,” says Edmondson. “You need a common language to bring people together and that language is the data.”
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    a lot of these ideas apply to any change management endeavor
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