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David Ellena

Measure the right things to boost team effectiveness | SmartBlogs SmartBlogs - 0 views

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Leadership Lessons leadership team effectiveness

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  • David Ellena on 26 Jan 14
     
    Some interesting thoughts on measuring team success
Courtney Jablonski

Teachers carry their views on evaluations from online to Albany | GothamSchools - 0 views

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  • The teachers’ goal was to devise recommendations based on teachers’ own experience for what measures districts should consider when evaluating teachers, and how heavily each of those measures should be weighted.
  • focused on breaking down “the culture of ‘closed doors’”
  • Under the state’s teacher evaluation deal passed last May, teachers will be given a score on a new 100-point scale, with 40 of those points determined by student achievement data.
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  • The remaining 60 points will be determined through “local assessments,” which will take forms that must be negotiated by school districts and their local unions. The law leaves open what those assessments could look like. Newly-developed tests or portfolio demonstrations of student work are two ideas that state officials have mentioned as possibilities.
  • One aspect of the local assessments is clear: they all must meet new regulations that are currently being developed by a state task force led by Deputy Education Commissioner John King.
  • The group ended up recommending that the 60 points be spread across five different evaluation measures, giving the most weight to observations by school administrators and other teachers in the school. A sixth measure — student portfolio work — was considered but abandoned, because the increase in paperwork for teachers seemed too high for the value the portfolios would provide for the evaluations, Anderson said.
  • Courtney Jablonski on 11 Feb 11
     
    If you were to design the new teacher evaluation system, what would you include? What opportunities would you want this evaluation system to bring to light?
Derek McCoy

ASCD Inservice: Measuring the Digital Divide - 3 views

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    Measuring the Digital Divide
Don Lourcey

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: How Google sets goals and measures success - 2 views

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      Don Lourcey on 06 Jul 10
       
      What is your goal setting process? How often are you having those conversations with your leadership teams? What a strategy: to set goals at impossible levels and then figure out how to achieve them. That is innovative, strategic, and risk taking.
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      Don Lourcey on 06 Jul 10
       
      This reminds me of a Clay Shirky quote: "A revolution doesn't happen when a society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors."
David Ellena

Guest Post by Greg Richardson - Leadership and Ambiguity | elumn8 - 0 views

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  • We like our leaders to be confident, clear, in control. We take comfort from leaders who have a vision, who are insightful, who know where they are going.
  • We are not nearly as comfortable with ambiguity. Ambiguity is uncertain. We do not know what is going to happen with ambiguity.
  • We are not reassured when leaders are ambiguous. We trust them less.
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  • The difficulty for leaders, and for us, is that many significant challenges are ambiguous.
  • Leadership is turning ambiguity into measurable action steps, translating what we fear into what we can do.
  • Leadership is turning ambiguity into measurable action steps, translating what we fear into what we can do.
  • David Ellena on 01 Jan 14
     
    Some great advice on handling ambiguity 
David Ellena

5 Measures of a Great Leader - 0 views

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    5 traits all great leaders have
Courtney Jablonski

Education Week Teacher: Hybrid Teaching Roles Promote Student Success - 0 views

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  • a hybrid teacher role as Data Strategist. I was charged with the task of organizing the various data points that, taken collectively, offer useful clues about student achievement, progress, and deficiency. The data lens could zoom out to a schoolwide perspective that might inform staff development planning, narrow to a classroom or grade-level view offering insight on skills requiring remediation, or focus on a single student being considered for referral to the school psychologist for a learning disability.
  • There is growing evidence that teacher empowerment as school leaders is linked strongly with teachers' tendency to engage in behaviors that accelerate student growth: soliciting parent involvement, communicating positive expectations, and being willing and able to innovate in the classroom.
  • In addition to measurable student impact, teachers that lead schools are better equipped to guide their own professional development, share their expertise, and develop explicit and implicit systems of accountability, while experiencing more respectful, trusting, and professional cultures.
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  • Title 1 funding that traditionally would have paid for an additional literacy specialist was allocated for the data strategist position.
  • The possibilities are endless when an individual's interests and skills are considered within the context of a school's needs. Such roles might also include community liaisons responsible for connecting families with various social services while plugging students into local job, volunteering, or community service opportunities. A keen interest in 21st-century skills might develop into a role that guides students to collaborate with others, synthesize information, and create something unique and useful for their peers.
  • The most prevalent barrier to hybrid teaching roles is the district-mandated staffing plan that leaves buildings with little opportunity to determine how personnel are allocated.
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