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Jason Finley

Some Thoughts on Disciplining Educational Innovation - 4 views

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  • Jason Finley on 14 Nov 12
     
    Really a great post by Vermont Superintendent Dan French. In this he talks about educators from across districts and beyond "utilizing the collective wisdom of their peers." He sees a potential providing an opportunity for educators where "Curriculum development and professional development are 'open sourced' with best practices being identified, implemented, and evaluated much more quickly across a group of schools since teachers are no longer working in isolation within their own schools or districts." I can't imagine that there isn't a person among us that wouldn't agree with the concepts he puts forward here. I think we as a group already have the pieces in place to implement what he proposes. If we were to come together as a true PLC I think that we could not only greatly help with transformation in our individual schools, but could have a profound and powerful impact on education across Vermont.
Jason Finley

Daniel M. French : Vermont Needs A World Class Public Education System - 2 views

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  • Jason Finley on 25 Nov 12
     
    "Lately, there has been more discussion over what is meant by a world class education system. Last week the US Department of Education put out its white paper on international education strategy entitled, Succeeding Globally Through International Education and Engagement, and in 2012 several books on the topic were published. ... I thought I would synthesize the key concepts of these books in order to formulate policy design principles for Vermont as we begin to think about transforming our current educational system into a world class system."
Karen Budde

we need teachers involved in transformation - 3 views

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  • Karen Budde on 13 May 13
     
    improving our professional development - as Lauren and Laura's project involves - and creating more student-centric learning opportunities would move educators from behind the desk and students away from test preparation packets
  • Carrie Felice on 16 May 13
     
    A see a future Rowland fellow!
Michael Martin

Rowland Retreat - 3 views

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  • Michael Martin on 12 May 13
     
    Photos from the first Rowland Foundation retreat with Barry & Wendy, the Board of Trustees, Director Chuck Scranton, and Rowland Fellows 2009-2013.
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  • Jen Kravitz on 13 May 13
     
    Nice photos Mike. We all look like we were working hard and doing some good thinking. It was nice to see the other groups in action!
  • Jim Mooney on 14 May 13
     
    Thanks for sharing. We look great - and according to one of my breakout groups, we would look even better in Rowland fleeces (although some preferred hoodies).
  • Mike McRaith on 16 May 13
     
    Keep the digital records coming! I think the video you are taking could become a powerful tool of communication and transformation!
Jason Finley

The 21st Century Principal: 7 Kinds of Thinking Keeping Your School or District from Transformation - 0 views

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  • Jason Finley on 03 Nov 12
     
    "Resistors to Change" 1."We've always done it this way thinking." 2."Head in the sand thinking." 3."It's someone or something else's fault thinking."  4."You have to do it this way because policy says so thinking." 5."I'm right and everyone else is wrong thinking." 6."Protect our turf at all costs thinking."  7."Change for Change's Sake thinking."
Jason Finley

Tony Wagner Keynote Rowland Conf 2012 - 0 views

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  • Jason Finley on 03 Nov 12
     
    Tony Wagner's entire keynote address from the September 27th Rowland Foundation Conference on School Transformation at the University of Vermont. I will also be posting short clips in the coming weeks. If you have a recommendation please let me know. jfinley@rnesu.org
Jason Finley

Imagine Learning - 2 views

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  • We are now about to challenge school design thinking with a current sustainability project in the making - the Marketplace, which seeks to combine social and learning space as one concept, breaking down any concept of ‘separate’ classrooms.  The Marketplace is an active glass canopy positioned over old spaces in order to radically transform the heart of the original school from industrial-era design to agile spaces suited to community life, engaged learning and enhanced through mobile technologies.
  • Jason Finley on 01 May 12
     
    The greatest challenge to change in learning is our reticence to simply take action: - change the space - change the program - expect high outcomes.
Lauren Parren

Everything you know about curriculum may be wrong. Really. « Granted, but… - 3 views

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Wiggins curriculum pedagogy transformation

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  • Lauren Parren on 18 Mar 12
     
    Funny, really, that this thought-provoking article comes from the king of curricular design, one my district fully embraces.  
Michael Martin

The Millennials - 0 views

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  • Michael Martin on 21 Mar 12
     
    This is the report we discussed in my reading group at the Rowland Fellows meeting this week. The Pew research Center's report on the Millennials, the generation born between 1980 and 1997, is full of interesting findings which have implications for how schools will need to change in order to reach the Net Generation.
Michael Martin

Lessons from Finland - 2 views

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  • Michael Martin on 21 Mar 12
     
    This article is from the discussion led by Rowland Fellow Adam Rosenberg who visited Finland in 2010. The author, Pasi Sahlberg, emphasizes how Finnish teachers are respected as innovators and experts in their field--much like the philosophy of the Rowland Foundation! He contrasts this approach with the test-based accountability system so prevalent in the U.S. Here's another Finland article which discusses The Finland Phenomenon, a film featuring Tony Wagner's exploration of the Finnish school system. Wagner will be the keynote speaker at this year's Rowland Foundation Conference on School Transformation. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11602/the_finland_phenomenon/ Watch The Finland Phenomenon trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcC2l8zioIw For more on the Rowland Foundation Conference at the University of Vermont: http://www.therowlandfoundation.org/annual_conference.shtml
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  • Adam Rosenberg on 21 Mar 12
     
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/friedman-pass-the-books-hold-the-oil.html?_r=1 The article above Underscores the inverse relationship between a country's natural resources and its human ones. Finland is a country that relies on and cultivates its human resources.
  • Adam Rosenberg on 21 Mar 12
     
    My observations regarding Finnish education linked below: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7i_HzAd2yGnX1k2NzhyajNSZkM4SzNncEEtbTNRZw
  • Michael Martin on 22 Mar 12
     
    When it comes to NCLB and educational opportunity, Darling-Hammond & Ravitch are rock stars in the field. Here's a very approachable presentation of some of their Finland ideas. Good for a school board meeting? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3tF2fF2B4&feature=related
  • Jason Finley on 24 Mar 12
     
    I believe that the most Powerful...and Empowering...piece of this is in Teacher Preparation. I also believe that this is where the biggest obstacles and push-back would be found if we were to try to implement this across Vermont.
Jason Finley

Surviving a Leadership Undercurrent | Connected Principals - 0 views

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  • Leaders must understand their staff and community members’ dispositions to the changes they are leading.  This does not mean that you have to wait until everyone is happy and on board with the change.  In truth, that moment will never occur because people naturally resist change.  The key for leaders is to tailor their practices in stakeholder accordance with disposition and changes that are occurring.
  • Effective leaders understand how the changes they are leading will be received and understood by all stakeholders.   The most effective leaders take the understanding a step further and tailor their leadership styles to create a movement for these changes.
  • advice holds true for both leaders and swimmers.  Leaders will exhaust themselves by going directly against the undercurrent.  Think about the undercurrent during your next initiative.  Your situational awareness will be key to not only surviving but also effectively implementing a new initiative to move your organization forward.
  • Anne Bergeron on 10 Mar 12
     
    The idea that a leader responds to undercurrents and tailors changes to anticipate what will eventually rise to the surface proves true in the work of Rowland Fellows in their school systems...The best of our school leaders - teachers, principals, superintendents - listen and look for the groundswell. The beauty of transformation from the ground up is that, like a good undercurrent, the conditions that allow it to spread and then surface are best arrived at when philosophies and practices become invitations to participate and a recognition that there are many unique and valuable ways to be a part of a growing undercurrent - for long-term changes to manifest, a good leader proposes - not imposes.
Jason Finley

Tony Wagner - 2 views

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  • Jason Finley on 22 Jan 12
     
    Tony Wagner, of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will be the keynote speaker at the September 27, 2012 Rowland Foundation Conference on High School Transformation.
Jason Finley

The Ghost of Ed Reform Past -- and the Hope of Ed Reform Future - 4 views

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  • Jason Finley on 21 Dec 11
     
    Interesting and short bit of writing that hits on my personal beliefs about where the majority of transformational focus should be...simply supporting good teaching.
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  • Jason Finley on 21 Dec 11
     
    "...higher-performing/higher-improving districts all had stable leadership and staff focused on improving teaching and learning; a common, high-quality curriculum that created a coherent instructional program; and quality professional development that helped staff meet instructional priorities..."
  • Jason Finley on 21 Dec 11
     
    "For too long, teachers and classrooms have been ignored in ... changes to the educational system."
  • Jason Finley on 21 Dec 11
     
    "Education reform needs a face lift -- one that includes higher standards for entry into the profession and mentor teachers assisting those needing to improve."
  • Herb Schulte on 22 Dec 11
     
    Agree about the necessity to pursue improved educational outcomes, yet as with other professions (i.e. doctors & lawyers) 50% finish in the lower half of their class. As with all things educational funding is the sacred cow and asking for higher standards of entry, while a worthy goal, would ultimately fall on the sword of budgets.
Jason Finley

The Importance of Video in Professional Development - 3 views

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  • Jason Finley on 10 Jan 12
     
    "Generally teachers don't like traditional observations and they don't often result in significant improvements. Video transforms lesson observations, turning them on their head."
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  • Jason Finley on 10 Jan 12
     
    "Seeing what others see facilitates meaningful conversations surrounding practice and leads to more significant improvements back in the classroom. This all allows mentoring and coaching relationships to become far more productive..."
  • Jason Finley on 10 Jan 12
     
    "...the most important thing about using video for CPD purposes is to get away from the idea of video as a management tool, and embrace it as something that you as an individual teacher can have control of."
  • Jason Finley on 10 Jan 12
     
    "The idea is for teachers to start by self-reflecting, and once you are confident in doing so you can share videos with colleagues and develop coaching and mentoring relationships which are more productive and genuinely result in classroom based improvements."
Jason Finley

7 Skills Students Need for Their Future - 5 views

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  • Jason Finley on 30 Jan 12
     
    Dr. Tony Wagner, co-director of Harvard's Change Leadership Group has identified what he calls a "global achievement gap," which is the leap between what even our best schools are teaching, and the must-have skills of the future:Critical thinking and problem-solvingCollaboration across networks and leading by influenceAgility and adaptabilityInitiative and entrepreneurialismEffective oral and written communicationAccessing and analyzing informationCuriosity and imagination
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  • Jason Finley on 30 Jan 12
     
    The best 29 minutes you'll spend this week. Well worth your time. jf
  • Jason Finley on 30 Jan 12
     
    How are we assessing these skills? If we don't why not? What could be more important?
  • Jason Finley on 25 Mar 12
     
    Shared this a couple of months ago...worth another look.
  • Michael Martin on 28 Mar 12
     
    And we're thrilled to have Tony Wagner as the keynote for the Rowland Foundation's 2nd Annual Conference on School Transformation! You can preview The Global Achievement Gap here: http://books.google.com/books?ei=AWNyT-eMBOXe0gG5tsW9AQ&id=_4zBmOBP9uwC&dq=tony+wagner&q=personalization#v=onepage&q&f=false
Jason Finley

iPrep Academy - My teacher is an App - 8 views

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  • Jason Finley on 13 Nov 11
     
    A truly transformed school. Could be tweaked to include non-curriculars. Interesting collection. Video, article, slideshow.
Jason Finley

Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization - 11 views

www.slideshare.net/...personalizedlearninchart

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  • Jason Finley on 22 Feb 12
     
    "There is a difference between personalization and differentiation and individualization. One is learner-centered; the others are teacher-centered."
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  • Jason Finley on 22 Feb 12
     
    Great chart to make you think about how we do what we do.
  • Anne Bergeron on 24 Feb 12
     
    Jason, Excellent chart - I have long appreciated the learning styles awareness inherent in differentiated instruction, but providing instruction in this way is highly teacher centered - and group focused. Feeding, encouraging, and developing students' individual interests spark the desire to learn and engage. I printed this chart immediately. Really appreciating your posts...personalization could be a "brand" for a school increasingly willing to transform in this direction. Anne
  • Jason Finley on 01 Mar 12
     
    Thanks Anne, The "brand" thing sounds very Corporate America to some, but I think that is is extremely important for schools...and not just because of the looming school choice issue. There is also a connection to community piece to this. To some it might come across as selling the school, where in actuality it is just the school identifying and clarifying what it sees as its mission and role in educating its students. I think that this starts with the perceptions and expectations of the community. What are those? Do they match the schools mission and action plan? ...They certainly should. Ideally when a school has an established brand it gives a sense of identity and pride in the school system by all stakeholders, provides a foundation and rationale for professional development, informs the community about what the school does well, gives students an idea of "Why?" to their education, and much more. Identifying and building a brand really is about moving away from the ambiguous and esoteric way we often speak of education and makes what happens in our schools clear, approachable, and embraceable to our communities.
  • Adam Rosenberg on 05 Mar 12
     
    Having participated in several differentiated instruction trainings, and seen strategies executed successfully by trained teachers, I've found that sound DI includes much of the content listed under 'personalization.'
  • Jason Finley on 05 Mar 12
     
    Completely agree Adam! The chart is a little perplexing at times in its definitions/examples. How the first is Competency-based and the others must be Carnegie Unit based comparison…I just don't get. What I do like about the chart is that it makes me reflect on how I do what I do. And also on, "Do I do what I say that I do?" Sometimes I feel like I might begin implementing a strategy one semester only to have my application of that strategy drift as time goes by. Every now and then I think that it is necessary to take a step back and question each piece of my own professional practice. This approach comes from my belief that we need to question and challenge everything...especially those things we most believe in.
  • Adam Rosenberg on 05 Mar 12
     
    Excellent point! Beliefs are like clothes. If we don't regularly take them off to wash them, we often mistake our own stench for what we perceive as someone else's.
Lauren Parren

Commons 2.0: Library Spaces Designed for Collaborative Learning (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 4 views

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  • information commons as a space for students to gather and work with technology
  • How well do these environments currently support social learning and promote collaborative work?
  • flexible design
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  • Do they encourage creativity and discovery
  • Do they offer services and features that students don't already have
  • self-help graphics services
  • one-stop collaboratory for out-of-class assignments, writing, research, and group proje
  • social software
  • learning spaces should align with current pedagogy.
  • "environments designed for people" where the availability of food and drink, comfortable chairs, and furniture support a variety of active and social learning activities.3
  • "human-centered" design
  • modular clusters
  • multiple options for output
  • open, free, comfortable, inspiring, and practical
  • Wireless laptops give students the freedom to explore the commons or anywhere in the library—to group themselves as they see fit and not as decided for them.
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      Lauren Parren on 14 Feb 12
       
      One of Laura's gifts!
  • his space should feel dynamic
  • inspiring
  • practical.
  • Lauren Parren on 14 Feb 12
     
    Although a bit dated, this seems like a great example of the type of library we want to create.  Combine this physical space with inspiring, practical Professional Development and we're going to cook!
Lauren Parren

Seedlings @ Bit By Bit Podcast: Show 126 - bit by bit - 5 views

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  • Lauren Parren on 14 Feb 12
     
    I haven't listened to the whole podcast yet, but it is interesting to hear what's happening in Maine to personalize learning and to create effective professional development.  Projects4ME should be of interest Rowland Fellow Alison.
  • Karen Budde on 15 Feb 12
     
    I sent him off an email. Maybe he'll share with us. As we all know 80% of success is putting oneself out there.
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