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David Ellena

Our Future Will Not Look Like Our Present | Evolving Educators - 0 views

  • we are in an educational transition that requires change.
  • Reading and Writing
  • students need to be technical readers. They need to learn how to comprehend complex text and be able to write it too.
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  • Technology Integration
  • Within this integration students and adults need to learn to be Digital Citizens.
  • What are lessons in education and the events of the world we live in? They are a series of problems requiring solutions.
  • Collaboration
  • This is how social media has become so popular and the way many companies now do business.
  • Problem Solving
  • Being able to collaborate with people is essential.
  • Self-Reflection
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    Some things to think about as education moves forward
David Ellena

5 Habits of Innovative Educators | Courtney O'Connell - 0 views

  • Habits are unconscious patterns of behavior that are acquired with frequent repetition
  • 1. They are idea blenders.
  • they steal ideas and concepts from outside of their domain and find ways to infuse those ideas into their work.
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  • 2. They ask their biggest critics for feedback.
  • Change agents in education are surrounded by a supportive group of people that can and will give them honest feedback. No one feels scared or defensive in the exchange of feedback, because the educator has been intentional in creating a trusting environment where constructive criticism is welcome.
  • 3. They fail fast and fail forward.
  • They know that failure is an imperative part of the creative process. Innovative educators are brave enough to try new ideas in and outside of the classroom.
  • 4. They are passionately curious.
  • They are constantly learning. This is also why they are idea blenders, because their curiosity leads them into a new web-design class or a subscription to an entrepreneurship online magazine.
  • 5. They believe in their students.
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    Some ideas on being an innovative leader
Helen Otway

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address - 0 views

  • And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
  • The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
  • you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
David Ellena

Are You a Leader or Manager? | Connected Principals - 0 views

  • Doing things the way you’ve always done them is not going to vault you to a new status; it will maintain your current status.  As a matter of fact, maintaining while others around you vault forward, relatively speaking, equates to falling behind.
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    Which one are you, manager or leader?
David Ellena

Is it about what you have learned or that you are learning? | The Principal of Change - 0 views

  •  I started to realize that it was not about what people had learned, but that they were learning.
  •  If they were trying to move forward,  they were successful that day, and making sure they knew that would push them that much further.
  • As much as we talk about the importance of collaboration, learning is an extremely personal experience.
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    Are you placing enough emphasis on WHAT you are learning?
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