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Brendan Murphy

Apple - ACOT2 - Social and Emotional Connections with Students - 0 views

  • For example, when students lack social and emotional connections to learning, educators, schools, and their peers, it often leads to behavior issues or disengagement, which inevitability leads to declining achievement and, in the worst cases, students dropping out of high schoo
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      STep 4 CBAM consequences of actions
  • behavioral motivation
  • emotional engagement (
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  • cognitive engagement
  • Researchers generally agree that learning is inherently social-it happens in the context of interactions and relationships with teachers, peers, family, experts, and others
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      bud the teacher posed this question in his blog recently.
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  • They find kindred spirits who fuel joint explorations and productions, reinforce understandings, and provide divergent opinions and clarification of understandings as discussions ensue. In many cases, social interactions enable levels of learning that simply wouldn’t be possible for students to accomplish on their own.
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      STep 6 CBAM is collaboration
Brendan Murphy

Publications: SRN LEADS - 3 views

  • creating successful systems, inducting and supporting quality teachers, designing effective schools, establishing strong professional practice, and providing equitable and sufficient resources.
  • coherent approach for effective reform
Brendan Murphy

Study: Leadership in school admins plays huge role in performance | Minnesota Public Ra... - 0 views

  • the people leading schools are more likely to affect student outcomes than other factors like poverty or geography.
  • schools shouldn't change principals just for the sake of change -- because turnover in leadership also hampers achievement.
Brendan Murphy

Margaret J. Wheatley: Goodbye, Command and Control - 0 views

  • We sought prediction and control, and also charged leaders with providing everything that was absent from the machine: vision, inspiration, intelligence, and courage
  • productivity gains in truly self-managed work environments are at minimum thirty-five percent higher than in traditionally managed organizations
  • There is both a need to have more autonomy in one’s work, and strong evidence that such participation leads to the effectiveness and productivity we crave.
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  • We never effectively control people with these systems, but we certainly stop a lot of good work from getting done.
  • creating systems of relationships where all members of the system benefit from their connections.
  • People organize together to accomplish more, not less
  • Whenever we look at organizations as machines and deny the great self-organizing capacity in our midst, we, as leaders, attempt to change these systems from the outside in
  • Most of us know that as people drive to work they're wondering how they can get something done for the organization despite the organization
  • They are tinkering in their local environments, based on their intimate experience with conditions there and their tinkering shows up as effective innovation
  • solutions cannot be imposed; they have to remain local.
  • If people are clear about the purpose and true values of their organization, their individual tinkering will result in system wide coherence.
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      This is why we have to develop a clear and shared vision.
  • Clarity about who we are as a group creates freedom for individual contributions.
  • If conformity is the goal, it will kill local initiative.
  • People develop new levels of trust for one another that show up as more cooperation and more forgiveness
  • But you can't direct people into perfection; you can only engage them enough so that they want to do perfect work.
  • They need information, access to one another, resources, trust, and follow-through
  • Ultimately, we have to rely not on the procedure manuals, but on people’s brains and their commitment to doing the right thing.
  • the higher you are in the organization, the more change is required of you personally
  • Commitment and loyalty are essential in human relationships. So how can we pretend we don't need them at work?
  • Employability in lieu of mutual commitment is a cop-out.
Brendan Murphy

Expert Project Management - Can A Project Manager be a Servant Leader? A Reflective Cri... - 1 views

  • verbal and non-verbal signals
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      Those cues that we can't see through email and im etc....
  • people
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      Everyone is a person and has value. Similar to listening to those you wnat to silence or forming alliances with danger
  • make whole
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      Something I would expect from the Dali Lama. when things are not working perhaps there is discord in the universe.
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  • disturber and an awakener.
  • integrated, holistic position
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      Everything is connected, but you don't see that until you are woken from your slumber and can see the world for what it truely is.
  • persuasion
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      Here we go with the persuasion again.
  • think beyond
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      Kind of like seeing the big picture. or systems thinking.
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      Ok this is just the systems thinking. how everything works together
  • consequence of a decision
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      This is thinking about renewal in the future.
  • commitment to serving
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      When you make the commitment you start building trust, when you have trust then the constitutents start to take on their own leadership role, not because you asked them, but because they want to for the good of the organization.
  • committed to the growth
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      Like the learning organizations from the first reading this week. Jossey-Bass chapter 1
  • interest in the ideas and suggestions
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Listening to people has been a theme from GARdner
  • building community
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      The theme of all the leadership so far has been you do not get your authority from fiat, but rather you earn it or it is given to you by those you lead.
  • high trust level among employees gives an organization an agility
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      Schools definately need the agility to change with the students needs.
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