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Michelle Krill

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lasw dsc O&A principal teammeetings

shared by Michelle Krill on 21 Mar 10 - Cached
  • This experience left me convinced that examining student work and discussing implications for teaching are among the most powerful kinds of adult learning in which we can engage. I would suggest that there is no better way to focus adults in the schools on student results. Set aside time for the examination of student work and consider these suggestions.
  • This experience left me convinced that examining student work and discussing implications for teaching are among the most powerful kinds of adult learning in which we can engage. I would suggest that there is no better way to focus adults in the schools on student results. Set aside time for the examination of student work and consider these suggestions.
  • This experience left me convinced that examining student work and discussing implications for teaching are among the most powerful kinds of adult learning in which we can engage. I would suggest that there is no better way to focus adults in the schools on student results. Set aside time for the examination of student work and consider these suggestions.
Michelle Krill

Flexible Grouping, Catherine Valentino - 0 views

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O&A flexgroups intervention differentiation

shared by Michelle Krill on 21 Mar 10 - Cached
  • One of the benefits of student-led groups is that they model "real-life" adult situations in which people work together, not in isolation, to solve problems. Students working in groups learn to work with people from varying backgrounds and with different experiences, sharpening social skills and developing a sense of confidence in their own abilities.
  • Michelle Krill on 21 Mar 10
     
    "Teachers are discovering that informally grouping and regrouping students in a variety of ways throughout the school day can make a teacher's job easier and students more productive. This teaching strategy is called flexible grouping. "
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Why do we need to collaboratively examine student work? - 0 views

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principal leadership studentwork data O&A

shared by Michelle Krill on 20 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • It is also important that teachers articulate vertically to make sure their instructional program is aligned and increases rigor as the students advance grades.
  • Teams of teachers must regularly meet to examine student work and reach consensus on what proficient performance looks like at their grade level.
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      Michelle Krill on 20 Mar 10
       
      One of our buildings is using Team Tuesdays. The first Tuesday is to be talk about lesson planning, another is about Learning Focused Schools implementation, another is about student work and the fourth is about data analysis. At times, a school support person attends too (literacy coach, instructional support teacher, me).
  • Drastically reduce the routine of meetings, reports and other administrative activities that take time and energy away from these essential dialogues
  • Michelle Krill on 20 Mar 10
     
    "Principals play a critical role in setting the expectation that planning and examining student work and performance data should be an ongoing, collaborative process."
Michelle Krill

Welcome to the Center for Adaptive Schools! - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 29 Mar 10
     
    "This web site provides information about Adaptive Schools: what they are, why they affect student learning, and how they develop essential capacities for sustained growth in achievement. Our Mission The mission of the Center for Adaptive Schools is to help schools develop the technical and social resources to realize continuing student improvement. Steady improvement in student learning is happening in a new kind of professional culture within schools. Sustaining these collaborative, results-focused working relationships requires leaders at all levels of the organization to develop new ways of seeing their work and new templates and tools for engaging collective energies toward common goals."
Michelle Krill

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acot2

shared by Michelle Krill on 21 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Rethinking what we teach must come before we can rethink how we teach.
  • applying what we know about how people learn and adapting the best pedagogy to meet the needs of this generation of learners.
  • Curriculum should apply to students’ current and future lives and leverage the power of Web 2.0 and ubiquitous technologies.
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  • Assessments used in the classroom should increase relevant feedback to students, teachers, parents, and decision-makers and should be designed to continuously improve student learning and inform the learning environment.
  • schools should create a culture that supports and reinforces innovation for student learning and leverages the creativity and ingenuity of every adult and student to solve their unique problems.
  • Gives appropriate recognition to the personal, professional, and familial relationships that determine the health, growth, and cognitive development of a child within the family, school, and community.
  • Underscores the essential role technology plays in 21st century life and work and, consequently, the role that it must play in learning.
  • Michelle Krill on 21 Aug 09
     
    The six design principles for the 21st century according to ACOT2.
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Successful Strategies in Online Education - 0 views

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elearning distancelearning

shared by Michelle Krill on 09 Jun 09 - Cached
  • The most recent distance technology, the Internet, adds an interactive component not possible with the other technologies - collaborative communication over a prolonged period of time. Traditionally, distance education has been primarily between the instructor and the student, and there has been little or no opportunity for interaction among students.
  • Students are able to read and respond to all correspondence, thereby learning from each other as much as from the instructor.
  • Another clear advantage of asynchronous communication is that it allows students more time to think about questions posed, thus promotes higher quality responses.
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  • ability for students to correspond, regardless of time zone.
  • Michelle Krill on 09 Jun 09
     
    Distance learning refers to a learning environment in which the...
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Reflections - 0 views

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leadership nsdc

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  • Public schools exist, or should exist, solely to prepare all students to become independent, self-sufficient adults and helping them develop particular knowledge and skills.
  • School system leaders' effectiveness depends on their skill to inspire, mobilize, and support front-line practitioners. Their vision is shaped not by the latest education trends, but by a simple resolve that the school system must work to the maximum demonstrable benefit of all children.
  • Leaders, on the other hand, define their roles as pursuing an aggressive agenda to raise levels of educator and student performance.
  • Michelle Krill on 14 Aug 10
     
    "Great leaders keep the focus on student learning"
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Listening to Student Voices - 2 views

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lasw supervision leadership

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  • Michelle Krill on 22 Oct 09
     
    "Listening to Student Voices is a toolkit for K - 12 educational leaders and school-based teams interested in including students in continuous school improvement."
Michelle Krill

Montgomery County Public Schools - Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance Excellence - 0 views

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baldrige el_week5 schoolreform

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  • Michelle Krill on 13 Aug 09
     
    The Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance Excellence is an exciting system-wide initiative. It has added rigor to school and office improvement planning focused on continuous improvement to achieve results for all students. All stakeholders - students, parents, staff, and community members - are invited to participate in all phases of this school improvement process. In March, 2005, MCPS was named the winner of the state's most prestigious award for organizational performance excellence-the U.S. Senate Productivity Award.
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A town hall on No Child Left Behind : The Gazette - 0 views

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nclb

shared by Michelle Krill on 25 Feb 10 - Cached
  • bill that advances standards-based education reform and emphasizes improvement in reading and writing.
  • proponents of the bill, which reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, say that there has been measurable improvement in student achievement in reading and math and an increased accountability of schools,
  • detractors argue that NCLB has caused states to lower achievement goals and motivates teachers to “teach to the test,” putting far less attention to subjects—like art, music and social studies—not represented in the standardized exam.
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  • No Child Left Behind is largely based on the belief that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals can improve individual outcomes in education. The act requires states to develop assessment tests in basic skills to be given to all students in certain grades if those states are to receive federal funding for schools. The act does not set a national achievement standard but rather leaves standards to each state.
  • Kanter said that the administration will seek, among other things, to elevate the status of teachers, decrease high school dropout rates (currently 1.2 million students per year), promote early learning (birth to age 3) initiatives and drive reform to push for higher school standards.
  • he reauthorization needs to focus on education research, specifically in relation to recent neuroscience advances, teaching excellence, early childhood education, common core high standards, expansion of subject areas to be evaluated and the development of strong school leaders.
  • No Child Left Behind, there is very little reference to the role of principals and the importance of that role to school success and academic success,”
  • Alonso said that while the goals of NCLB were bold, the means to get there were modest. Too little attention, he said, was placed on pedagogy and methodology.
  • They said that curricula have been dangerously trimmed because schools are teaching to narrow tests.
  • ed that the current tests create “bubble students,” those who fall just below the standard and are given an inordinate amount of attentio
  • any reauthorization needs to promote and reward innovation in education.
Michelle Krill

Study Circles: About Study Circles- Montgomery County Public Schools - 0 views

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diversity leadership studycircles

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  • Michelle Krill on 27 Apr 10
     
    "The Montgomery County Public Schools Study Circles Program helps schools address the challenges posed by cultural and racial differences by bringing together parents, teachers, and students from different backgrounds. Trained facilitators help participants talk, build relationships, develop a better understanding of the challenges, and plan action steps to help all students succeed."
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The Widget Effect - 1 views

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evaluation accountability supervision

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  • Michelle Krill on 15 Nov 09
     
    "Effective teachers are the key to student success. Yet our school systems treat all teachers as interchangeable parts, not professionals. Excellence goes unrecognized and poor performance goes unaddressed. This indifference to performance disrespects teachers and gambles with students' lives."
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Classroom Architect - 0 views

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design floorplan learningspaces

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  • Michelle Krill on 01 Oct 09
     
    Thoughtful arrangement of the indoor and outdoor environments will support your learning goals for students.This tool provides an opportunity for experimentation with the layout of your classroom without any heavy lifting!
  • Michelle Krill on 01 Oct 09
     
    Thoughtful arrangement of the indoor and outdoor environments will support your learning goals for students.This tool provides an opportunity for experimentation with the layout of your classroom without any heavy lifting!
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SEDL Learning Center | - 0 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 30 Aug 09
     
    Interactive Courses for Family and Community Involvement in Student Learning
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The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM): A Model for Change in Individuals - 0 views

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cbam change innovation

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  • Michelle Krill on 14 Aug 09
     
    Another framework that has implications for the practices of professional development acknowledges that learning brings change, and supporting people in change is critical for learning to "take hold." One model for change in individuals, the Concerns-Based Adoption Model, applies to anyone experiencing change, that is, policy makers, teachers, parents, students
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Critical Issue: Integrating Standards into the Curriculum - 0 views

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curriculum framework

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  • Michelle Krill on 09 Feb 10
     
    "ISSUE: Many educators and advisory groups emphasize high standards as an important factor in improving the quality of education for all students. As a result, schools and districts are looking at ways to develop a high-quality curriculum that is based on standards. An important starting point for this effort is a carefully thought-out curriculum framework that reflects the standards and goals for which the education community is willing to be held accountable. Developing a standards-based curriculum requires changes in the way teachers teach and schools are run, so care must be taken to build capacity for all educators and to provide adequate time for implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the curriculum. The curriculum-development process also should provide opportunities for reflection and revision so that the curriculum is updated and improved on a regular basis. "
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Chapter 4: Teaching Every Student TOC: Information & Ideas - 0 views

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udl

shared by Michelle Krill on 03 Feb 10 - Cached
  • These days, we are demanding more of students than the acquisition of facts: We want them to ask questions, find information, and use that information effectively. We want them to learn how to learn.
  • CAST has drawn on the neuroscience of learning and the study of media to develop the concept of Universal Design for Learning. The central practical premise of UDL is that a curriculum should include alternatives to make it accessible and appropriate for individuals with different backgrounds, learning styles, abilities, and disabilities in widely varied learning contexts.
  • UDL provides a framework that helps teachers differentiate their instruction through carefully articulated goals and individualized materials, methods, and assessments.
  • Michelle Krill on 03 Feb 10
     
    "What is Universal Design for Learning? "
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Focus: The Forgotten 21st Century Skill - 2 views

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  • Michelle Krill on 27 Jan 10
     
    "...If the focus of an educational system is student learning, as most mission statements claim, then leaders must compare the reality of their employment of technology with their stated intention."
  • Paul George on 13 Feb 10
     
    Michelle, Thanks for posting this! Honestly, one of the best, most "focused" articles I have read in a long time. It really nails the issue of having little or no focus or direction when we're swamped by layers upon layers of standards, initiatives, and skills. Makes me wonder if it might not be a good idea to choose one or two of the NETS-S as a starting point, rather than be daunted by trying to integrate ALL of them.
Michelle Krill

The LoTi Connection - 1 views

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loti iste 21st assessment idp pd

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  • The LoTi Framework focuses on the delicate balance between instruction, assessment, and the effective use of digital tools and resources to promote higher order thinking, engaged student learning, and authentic assessment practices in the classroom--all vital characteristics of 21st Century teaching and learning.
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Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow - 0 views

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kohn NCLB standards critical

shared by Michelle Krill on 28 Aug 09 - Cached
  • But the word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
  • The clarity of language be damned: They come to bury a given institution rather than to improve it, but they describe their mission as “reform.”
  • It’s a very clever gambit, you have to admit. Either you’re in favor of privatization or else you are inexplicably satisfied with mediocrity.
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  • there’s plenty of room for dissatisfaction with the current state of our schools. An awful lot is wrong with them: the way conformity is valued over curiosity and enforced with rewards and punishments, the way children are compelled to compete against one another, the way curriculum so often privileges skills over meaning, the way students are prevented from designing their own learning, the way instruction and assessment are increasingly standardized, the way different avenues of study are rarely integrated, the way educators are systematically deskilled .
  • To that extent, even if privatization worked exactly the way it was supposed to, we shouldn’t expect any of the defects I’ve just listed to be corrected.
  • Making schools resemble businesses often results in a kind of pedagogy that’s not merely conservative but reactionary, turning back the clock on the few changes that have managed to infiltrate and improve classrooms.
  • ut an attack on schooling as we know it is generally grounded in politics rather than pedagogy, and is most energetically advanced by those who despise not just public schools but all public institutions.
  • Michelle Krill on 28 Aug 09
     
    Using Accountability to "Reform" Public Schools to Death
  • Michelle Krill on 28 Aug 09
     
    The term reform means different things to different people. It would be important that all stakeholders have the same idea about needed "reforms".
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