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Jennie Bales

Leadership: It Is Made from Productive Change | Knowledge Quest - 21 views

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  • Jennie Bales on 11 Aug 20
     
    "Total Leader by thinking about leadership through the lens of productive change. There are five pillars that make up productive change. Purpose, vision, ownership, capacity, and support. Let's break these down in terms of school librarians and leadership with some examples of what the pillars look like in the world of libraries."
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The Big Six Information Skills As a Metacognitive Scaffold: A Case Study | American Ass... - 1 views

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  • authentic tasks often require an increased amount of metacognitive attention on the part of the students, as they are generally not addressed in the kindergarten through twelfth-grade curricula. Through the use of a specific information skills model like Big6 these skills can be developed in students of all ages (Eisenberg and Berkowitz 1990).
  • Stripling and Pitts describe their model as a "thinking frame" (Stripling and Pitts 1988, 19) for research. This ten-step process emphasizes a thinking framework that can be adapted for any age level and any curricular subject. The authors maintain that, unless they are instructed to do so, most students do not automatically think about research in an explicit manner. Therefore, by prescribing the method in which to write research papers, the authors hope to improve student thought about the research process. The ten steps of the search process model (Stripling and Pitts 1988) are organized around the major activities performed in writing a coherent research paper: topic selection, planning the information search, locating and accessing materials, and creating a final product. Throughout the model, students have several reflection points that allow them to make judgments about their progress.
  • Big6 (Eisenberg and Berkowitz 1990) is a six-step process that provides support in the activities required to solve information-based problems: task definition, information seeking strategies, location and access, use of information, synthesis, and evaluation (see  figure 1).
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  • Teachers can provide specific support and scaffolding for desired metacognitive skills by labeling student behaviors as metacognitive behaviors, modeling specific metacognitive activities (e.g. self-questioning, reflection, strategy revision), providing opportunities for feedback to the students, and by adopting a specific learning or studying model for use within the classroom (Bondy 1984; Costa 1984).
  • Palinscar's (1986) definition of metacognition as the ability to plan, implement, and evaluate strategic approaches to learning and problem solving is supported by the six steps of Big6. Students who engage in task definition and information-seeking strategies are formulating a plan in order to complete an assignment or solve a problem. Engaging in location and access, use of information, and synthesis is the implementation of that plan. Evaluating the process and product resulting from the synthesis activity is the final step.
  • ig6 as a general, nonsubject-specific, metacognitive scaffold for students to use when solving information-based problems.
  • First, when students are provided metacognitive support during information problem-solving activities, they may be able manage complex tasks and subject matter content.
  • Second, the students relied heavily on the model in order to make decisions about current and future activities.
  • The researchers found that Big6 provided a focus to student research and writing activities that appeared to enhance the level of engagement the students had with both the content and their writing activities.
  • Results suggest that Big6 might act as a metacognitive scaffold for students who are asked to complete unfamiliar tasks involving complex content.
  • Scaffolding, when implemented according to the principles presented by Vygotsky (1978) is gradually withdrawn from the learner as performance approaches an expert level. The time period of the study was too brief to gradually remove the scaffolded support for students.
  • Big6 and other models that provide a systematic guide for information problem solving seem to provide the elements for mental modeling so necessary in helping the novice construct a method to meet the information use tasks placed before him or her. These models appear to help students visualize the series of tasks that at first are not understood or seemingly connected. Such models may be powerful in construction of mental images to manage tasks that at first did not seem possible to accomplish.
  • The Big6 may act as a metacognitive scaffold that supports students while they become more adept at monitoring their own thought processes during the problem-solving process.
  • Additionally, it provides a structured vocabulary that students and teachers can use while discussing the problem-solving strategies being employed in a particular learning situation. The structured vocabulary allows teachers and students to label behaviors and clarify terminology, two activities that are recommended to enhance metacognitive ability in students (Costa 1984). Consequently, an unobservable process is able to be monitored and tracked through a set of prescribed steps and described using a standardized vocabulary.
  • Big6 may also provide an overarching process that students can employ in a variety of learning situations
  • "encourage a deliberate and systematic approach to learning and problem solving" (236).
  • As Bondy (1984) stated, We cannot possibly provide school children with enough information to ensure their lifelong success in an ever-changing world. Preparing children to meet the demands of an uncertain future, however, may require a shift in educational focus from the content to the process of learning. Not only do children need to be able to think, but they need to exercise control over their own thinking. They need to know when they understand, when they need to know more, and how to direct efficiently their personal questions for knowledge. (238)
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    Research into Big6
Jennie Bales

10 Workplace Skills That Will Help Our Learners Succeed Beyond School - 4 views

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  • Jennie Bales on 25 Sep 19
     
    "The best modern workplace skills for students to have are the ones that foster trust, promote a leadership mindset, and create productive results."
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6 Ways to Enhance Productivity in the Digital Classroom - iPads in Education - 1 views

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  • Schools are investing heavily in educational technology, however they’re often lacking a comprehensive plan for workflows that enable fluent movement and sharing of digital information. Further, in the new age of connectivity and social networking, new digital workflows can expand our horizons for how we learn and who we learn with.
Jennie Bales

Leading The Way: 5 Ways School Leaders Embrace Change For Australian Students | SkoolBag - 22 views

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  • Jennie Bales on 23 Sep 19
     
    An article on change as part of a commercial product.
Jennie Bales

8 Ways K-12 School Leaders Can Demonstrate Trust in Their Staff | Edutopia - 16 views

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  • Jennie Bales on 09 Feb 22
     
    "Trust matters-people who work in high-trust environments experience less stress, burnout, and sick days than those who work in low-trust environments. Higher levels of productivity, greater engagement, and more energy are all associated with these advantages."
Roy Crotty

Libraries Change Lives - 4 views

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  • Roy Crotty on 07 Aug 13
     
    The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) proudly supports the "Declaration for the Right to Libraries," a component of Barbara Stripling's 2013 American Library Association (ALA) Presidential Initiative, "Libraries Change Lives." School library programs change lives by empowering students to become effective and independent users of information and ethical and productive members of our democratic society. The declaration champions the nation's right to quality libraries of all types - public, school, academic, and special - and the expert teaching and guidance provided librarians and library staff. Guided by the AASL learning standards, school librarians teach students to think critically, create new knowledge, share knowledge, and pursue personal and esthetic growth. . AASL is an advocate for the indispensable role of school library programs with school librarians, for best practices in school librarianship, and for the core values and ethics of the library profession. It is within this capacity that AASL endorses and encourages the profession to support the "Declaration for the Right to Libraries."
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Three Tasks for Every Leader - 2 views

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  • mneil_dpg on 25 Aug 16
     
    Whether you're the CEO of a large company or the head of a small production team, all leaders share similar responsibilities. To work effectively with a group, big or small, every leader must manage meaning, set the emotional tone, and put people in the right emotional range for their best performance.
Jessica Raeside

Learning to Connect the Dots | Leading From the Library - 12 views

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  • demonstrate some significant accumulated knowledge or expertise that will help move the organization towards the greater good.
  • Much of what leaders know comes from learning through experience, and much of that experience is the result of mistakes.
  • how these phenomena could combine to lead to a new service or product that delivers value.
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  • These connectors are typically ahead of their time,
  • their ability to connect the dots helped them to form visions for radical change before the rest of the world was ready. That enabled them to gain followers and emerge as a powerful leaders.
  • leadership that is often associated with innovation
  • visionary leadership requires more than just being a storehouse of knowledge. What separates those with vision from the rest is the ability to connect the dots
Jennie Bales

The Systems Thinker - Managing Your Time as a Leader - The Systems Thinker - 23 views

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  • Jennie Bales on 16 Jul 20
     
    "Conventional approaches to time management are useful in organizing to get work done. However, increasing personal efficiency alone is inadequate for helping leaders resolve this key strategic issue: how to achieve high levels of sustainable, long-term performance while meeting the challenge of doing more with less. "
Jennie Bales

25 Books That Will Teach The Most Powerful Leadership Lessons - 8 views

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  • Jennie Bales on 01 Aug 17
     
    Books are like training weights for the brain. And reading the right ones can provide you with powerful leadership lessons in a very short period of time. In this list, we're going to go over 25 powerful books on leadership. Ready? Let's dive in.
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