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Brendan Murphy

edweek.org: Technology Counts 2006: Delving Into Data - 0 views

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  • from the students' first years in school right up to that very day.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      There is such a thing as too much information, but I get the point.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      I worked for a compay that sold Pnnicle Analytics and the stuff you can learn from data mining is awesome. Especially when they make an intuitive interface.
  • student identifiers,
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      I can see how this would raise a lot of privacy concerns
  • Without links to other data, the usefulness of student identifiers is diminished,
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  • Data on Teachers Uneven
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      I can see how collecting data on teachers is a problem until we answer the question of how do we evaluate quality teachers. What if someone points to a implementation dip and uses that as grounds for termination?
  • use their data to help struggling teachers and to reward successful ones
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      I like how there is nothing negative. Data is used to help.
  • but the information is used in principals' evaluations of their teachers
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      But now its used in evaluations
  • While it's useful to have that kind of longitudinal data [for policy purposes]," he says, "one should not impute conclusions about the true depth of a child's intellectual development in terms of math, science, or whatever."
  • results on statewide tests aren't as useful as many policymakers think.
  • Students take the tests at the start of every quarter in every subject, and the results are available the same day. The data are broken down by the racial, ethnic, economic, and other subgroups used in NCLB accountability reports.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 24 Aug 10
       
      I've never understood why it would take any longer.
Brendan Murphy

The Case Against "Tougher Standards" - 0 views

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shared by Brendan Murphy on 25 Aug 10 - Cached
  • But the current demand for Tougher Standards carries with it a bundle of assumptions about the proper role of schools
  • 1959, John Holt wrote that the main effect "of the drive for so-called higher standards in schools is that the children are too busy to think."
  • frankly, there never was a time when it worked all that well
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  • Accountability" usually turns out to be a code for tighter control over what happens in classrooms by people who are not in classroom
  • Rather than scrambling to comply with its provisions, our obligation is to figure out how best to resist.
Brendan Murphy

Leadership Skills in School and Business | School Administrator | Find Articles at BNET - 0 views

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  • specialized knowledge
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      Knowledge of how to do the job
  • essential elements of leadership that often are emphasized are creative
  • fundamental premise of ethically working for the good of others
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  • According to Burns, transformational leadership is "a relationship of mutual stimulation and elevation that converts followers into leaders and may convert leaders into moral agents
Brendan Murphy

LEADERSHIP FOR THE 21st CENTURY: BREAKING THE BONDS OF DEPENDENCY - 1 views

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shared by Brendan Murphy on 12 Jul 10 - Cached
  • there is no external answer that will substitute for the complex work of changing one's own situation.
  • It is one thing to say in most successful organizations members share a clear, common vision, which is true, but quite another to suggest that this stems primarily from direct vision-building, which is not. Vision-building is the result of a whole range of activities (pp. 208-209).
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 13 Jul 10
       
      So the vision doesn't create a sense of team rather when you build a team a vision is created.
  • critical consumers
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  • 1.Respect those you want to silence. 2.Move toward the danger in forming new alliances. 3.Manage emotionally as well as rationally. 4.Fight for lost causes.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 13 Jul 10
       
      Are these the four guidelines they were talking about in the introduction paragraph?
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 15 Jul 10
       
      1. I think a strong leader is not afraid to listen to those who disagree with them. I think the strongest leader listens carefully and includes the best ideas. I don't think majority rule is always the best way to run things, I think going with what the group thinks is best but tempered by vocal minorities is the best way to run a group. It is certainly better than a dictatorship, even when the dictator is the smartest and most benevolant person in the room. 2. Akin to the first guideline forming alliances with people you want to stay away from is important. They will not work to sabotage your plans if they feel their feelings are being listened to and heard. People don't think they know everything, but they do think they should be heard. If a leader is one who is known for being able to work with new groups then I think new groups will be more willing to accept an offer or collaboration. 3. We cannot inspire people without a bit of passion. While some paths may seem like the most prudent financially, or whatever, in the end the only path that will work is the one that people support. Sometimes we have to be willing to break away from what we think is the best path in order to be successful on the most loved path. 4. Everyone loves an underdog. At least we do in this time and this place. Lost causes in education are usually the causes that will bring about the most dramatic change. I think most people see schools as getting the short end of the stick in most political arenas, thus we are one big lost cause.
  • create opportunities for learning from dissonance
  • high priority on reculturing
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 13 Jul 10
       
      Hiring and or converting existing staff to work towards a common goal
  • Articulating and discussing hope
Brendan Murphy

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

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  • 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
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Aug 10
       
      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
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Aug 10
       
      bud the teacher posed this question in his blog recently.
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      Brendan Murphy on 20 Aug 10
  • 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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      Brendan Murphy on 20 Aug 10
       
      STep 6 CBAM is collaboration
Brendan Murphy

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

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  • verbal and non-verbal signals
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      Those cues that we can't see through email and im etc....
  • people
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      Everyone is a person and has value. Similar to listening to those you wnat to silence or forming alliances with danger
  • make whole
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      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
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      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
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      Here we go with the persuasion again.
  • think beyond
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      Kind of like seeing the big picture. or systems thinking.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      Ok this is just the systems thinking. how everything works together
  • consequence of a decision
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      This is thinking about renewal in the future.
  • commitment to serving
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      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
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      Like the learning organizations from the first reading this week. Jossey-Bass chapter 1
  • interest in the ideas and suggestions
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      Listening to people has been a theme from GARdner
  • building community
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      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
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 20 Jul 10
       
      Schools definately need the agility to change with the students needs.
Brendan Murphy

Publications: SRN LEADS - 3 views

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  • 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

Confusing Technology Integration with Instructional Reform « Larry Cuban on S... - 0 views

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  • Many teachers and principals have said repeatedly to the point of the words being cliched: “integrating technology is not about technology, it is about learning.” Yet those who buy and deploy new technologies continue to seek “educational uses”  for the electronic devices.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 29 Aug 10
       
      Buy the technology you need not educational technology
  • The instructional focus shifts from being teacher-centered to being learner-centered…. Traditional verbal activities are gradually replaced by authentic hands-on-inquiry related to a problem….”
  • Why, she asks, should K-12 teachers’ roles change to integrate technology effectively?
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  • These two reasons, technocentrism and pedagogical dogmatism, Harris argues, explain why for decades, enthusiastic policymakers, researchers, and practitioners have confused technology integration (involving  the perennial conflict of content vs. skills) with technology as an instrument for pedagogical reform (moving from teacher-centered to learner-centered instruction).
  • Since most technology designers do not understand effective teaching (or are not designing something for teaching purposes), they often focus on making content more appealing or easier to access instead of creating a technology that causes students to more deeply engage mentally with content.
  • When I did my doctoral research, I found that just bringing in technology and showing teachers how it worked did not change pedagogy. I believe that if you want to change pedagogy to a more constructivist approach, you need to tackle this head on and not make it part of some technology project.
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