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Bo Adams

Why Students Should Take the Lead in Parent-Teacher Conferences | MindShift | KQED News - 1 views

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student-led conferences

shared by Bo Adams on 21 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • at schools built on Deeper Learning principles, the meetings are often turned into student-led conferences, with students presenting their schoolwork, while their teachers, having helped them prepare, sit across the table, or even off to the side
  • students are responsible for their own success.
  • this is the student’s moment to share his or her reflections on achievements and challenges
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  • encourages students to reflect on the connection between the effort they have made and the quality of their work
  • asks them to choose three examples that help them tell their parents a deeper story: one that shows they have recognized both a personal strength and an area in which they are struggling
  • Bo Adams on 21 Apr 17
     
    HT Emily Trenney
Bo Adams

What's the Use? Understanding Understanding | The Curiosity Shop - Teaching & Learning ... - 1 views

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understanding UbD #MustRead

shared by Bo Adams on 15 May 17 - No Cached
  • Bo Adams on 15 May 17
     
    Excellent piece from Kevin Costa at McDonogh School about the nature of teaching for understanding.
Meghan Cureton

Complicated Versus Complex: Solving the World's Most Difficult Challenges - UNREASONABLE - 1 views

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complex problem-solving pbl solution-seeker

shared by Meghan Cureton on 04 Aug 17 - No Cached
  • humility to admit that we don’t know many answers when we start
  • Scaling-up what works may have more to do with process expertise—figuring out what problems need to be solved in a given environment—than blueprints based on expert knowledge.
  • solution seekers looking to partner with local experts to solve local problems
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  • The hardest problems of the world—climate change, food security, youth employment—are complex and require data-driven experimentation and adaptation to solve.
  • Solutions may not always scale. But the processes by which we experiment, learn, and adapt can scale.
Bo Adams

How School Leaders Can Attend to the Emotional Side of Change | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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change leadership social-emotional

shared by Bo Adams on 03 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • for many people, change — at least at first — isn’t about growth or capacity building or learning; it’s about loss.
  • One of the most difficult things about leading change in schools, according to Evans, is that there often aren’t clear structures to deal with conflict or disagreement.
  • difference between congeniality and collegiality
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  • Evans acknowledges that creating a school culture that encourages productive conflict, the hashing out of ideas and differing opinions, is particularly hard because the qualities that make someone a great teacher — nurturing, extending beyond themselves, pulling out the best in people — are not typically the characteristics of someone who is skilled at adult conflict
  • “Almost all of us would rather work with someone who disagrees with us, but who is clear, than with someone who seems to agree with us, but isn’t clear,”
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