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jessvanorman

infed.org | Peter Senge and the learning organization - 0 views

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  • The basic rationale for such organizations is that in situations of rapid change only those that are flexible, adaptive and productive will excel. For this to happen, it is argued, organizations need to ‘discover how to tap people’s commitment and capacity to learn at all levels’ (ibid.: 4).While all people have the capacity to learn, the structures in which they have to function are often not conducive to reflection and engagement. Furthermore, people may lack the tools and guiding ideas to make sense of the situations they face. Organizations that are continually expanding their capacity to create their future require a fundamental shift of mind among their members.
  • Personal mastery. ‘Organizations learn only through individuals who learn. Individual learning does not guarantee organizational learning. But without it no organizational learning occurs’ (Senge 1990: 139). Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively’ (ibid.: 7). It goes beyond competence and skills, although it involves them. It goes beyond spiritual opening, although it involves spiritual growth (ibid.: 141). Mastery is seen as a special kind of proficiency. It is not about dominance, but rather about calling. Vision is vocation rather than simply just a good idea.
  • But personal mastery is not something you possess. It is a process. It is a lifelong discipline. People with a high level of personal mastery are acutely aware of their ignorance, their incompetence, their growth areas. And they are deeply self-confident. Paradoxical? Only for those who do not see the ‘journey is the reward’. (Senge 1990: 142)
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  • If organizations are to develop a capacity to work with mental models then it will be necessary for people to learn new skills and develop new orientations, and for their to be institutional changes that foster such change. ‘Entrenched mental models… thwart changes that could come from systems thinking’ (ibid.: 203). Moving the organization in the right direction entails working to transcend the sorts of internal politics and game playing that dominate traditional organizations. In other words it means fostering openness (Senge 1990: 273-286). It also involves seeking to distribute business responsibly far more widely while retaining coordination and control. Learning organizations are localized organizations (ibid.: 287-301).
  • it’s the capacity to hold a share picture of the future we seek to create’ (1990: 9). Such a vision has the power to be uplifting – and to encourage experimentation and innovation. Crucially, it is argued, it can also foster a sense of the long-term, something that is fundamental to the ‘fifth discipline’.
  • When there is a genuine vision (as opposed to the all-to-familiar ‘vision statement’), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to. But many leaders have personal visions that never get translated into shared visions that galvanize an organization… What has been lacking is a discipline for translating vision into shared vision – not a ‘cookbook’ but a set of principles and guiding practices. The practice of shared vision involves the skills of unearthing shared ‘pictures of the future’ that foster genuine commitment and enrolment rather than compliance. In mastering this discipline, leaders learn the counter-productiveness of trying to dictate a vision, no matter how heartfelt. (Senge 1990: 9)
  • People need to be able to act together. When teams learn together, Peter Senge suggests, not only can there be good results for the organization, members will grow more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise.
  • In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations were people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models – that is they are responsible for learning…. Learning organizations will remain a ‘good idea’… until people take a stand for building such organizations. Taking this stand is the first leadership act, the start of inspiring (literally ‘to breathe life into’) the vision of the learning organization. (Senge 1990: 340)
  • In essence, ‘the leaders’ task is designing the learning processes whereby people throughout the organization can deal productively with the critical issues they face, and develop their mastery in the learning disciplines’ (ibid.: 345).
  • One of the important things to grasp here is that stewardship involves a commitment to, and responsibility for the vision, but it does not mean that the leader owns it. It is not their possession. Leaders are stewards of the vision, their task is to manage it for the benefit of others (hence the subtitle of Block’s book – ‘Choosing service over self-interest’). Leaders learn to see their vision as part of something larger. Purpose stories evolve as they are being told, ‘in fact, they are as a result of being told’ (Senge 1990: 351). Leaders have to learn to listen to other people’s vision and to change their own where necessary. Telling the story in this way allows others to be involved and to help develop a vision that is both individual and shared.
  • By attending to purpose, leaders can cultivate an understanding of what the organization (and its members) are seeking to become. One of the issues here is that leaders often have strengths in one or two of the areas but are unable, for example, to develop systemic understanding. A key to success is being able to conceptualize insights so that they become public knowledge, ‘open to challenge and further improvement’ (ibid.: 356).
  • It is about fostering learning, for everyone. Such leaders help people throughout the organization develop systemic understandings. Accepting this responsibility is the antidote to one of the most common downfalls of otherwise gifted teachers – losing their commitment to the truth. (Senge 1990: 356)
cwjohnstone

8 Characteristics of the Innovative Leader - The Principal of Change - 3 views

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  • As we continue to look at teachers, students, and learning becoming more “innovative”, it is important that leadership changes.  As administrators often set the tone for their district or their building, if they are saying the same, it is not likely that things are going to change in the classroom.  Leadership needs to not only “think” different, but they need to “act” different.
    • jessvanorman
      jessvanorman on 09 Mar 19
       
      Innovation requires change from the leadership... this seems basic, but it's something I see lacking in a lot of areas of education. The leadership needs to inspire innovation in their building, they need to set the tone!
  •  Innovative leaders help people continuously grow with small steps that build both confidence and competence, so they are more willing to become more innovative themselves.
    • Emily Wood
      Emily Wood on 10 Mar 19
       
      Scripting the critical moves
    • cwjohnstone
      cwjohnstone on 14 Mar 19
       
      Right on! Nice connection. #Switch
  • “If I was a teacher in this school, what would I expect of my principal?”  That trickled down to trying to empathize with being a student in the school, and a parent in the community.
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  • If leaders want people to try new things, they have to openly show, that they are willing to do the same.
  • we have access to so much information, not only from schools, but from outside organizations.
    • Emily Wood
      Emily Wood on 10 Mar 19
       
      Ideas are EVERYWHERE! Look beyond just school examples.
  • The least innovative organizations often seem to surround themselves with like-minded people.
    • Emily Wood
      Emily Wood on 10 Mar 19
       
      Need diversity of people and ideas.
  • Spending time with people and building solid relationships with them often leads to them going miles beyond what is expected and move away from “what has always been done”.  When people know they are valued and safe in trying new things, they are more likely to do something better.  This is at the core of an innovative school.
  • should try to create new ideas, but it is more important that they create a culture of innovation
    • Emily Wood
      Emily Wood on 10 Mar 19
       
      culture more important than ideas.
Jill Dawson

Sixth graders ditch traditional lessons to create video game businesses | PBS NewsHour - 1 views

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    • Jill Dawson
      Jill Dawson on 12 Jul 14
       
      The PROCESS is more important than the product, and students are working in collaborative TEAMS in their classrooms.  
  • “We’re really into authentic feedback, not having the teacher be the one person whose voice counts
    • Jill Dawson
      Jill Dawson on 12 Jul 14
       
      I love this article, because it showcases what is possible in education.  I also love this article, because in addition to the written text, a video has been added. Video is becoming increasingly important as a medium.
  • Jill Dawson on 12 Jul 14
     
    It took seven people to create the "Golden Medallion" spy adventure video game and its advertising campaign. They did their own coding, conducted a beta test, created a website, a commercial and an instagram feed, and they came up with incentives to get people to play. And not one of the seven had even finished sixth grade. Continue reading →
Cally Flickinger

Shop | Quirky - 0 views

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  • Cally Flickinger on 16 Feb 15
     
    This is a NYC based operation created by one man in 2008.  They believe in helping people design solutions to problems they see around them.  Their focus is on household, environmental or societal changes.  They offer Thursday night sessions for people to come with ideas that they choose to take from ideas to completion and implementation.  
jessvanorman

16 Traits of Great IT Leaders | CIO - 2 views

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  • They Are Self-Aware
  • They Continue to Learn and Grow
  • They Work Through Other People and Delegate
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  • They Have Great Communication Skills
  • They Are Adept at Problem Solving
  • They Are Decisive
  • They Create a Safe-to-Fail Environment
  • They Are Authentic
  • Emotional intelligence is knowing your strengths and weaknesses as well as your emotional triggers. Knowing this will allow you to better focus on the people you interact with, so that you can recognize and interpret what's happening within them, and manage your interactions with them based on their emotions.
  • Emotional intelligence is knowing your strengths and weaknesses as well as your emotional triggers. Knowing this will allow you to better focus on the people you interact with, so that you can recognize and interpret what's happening within them, and manage your interactions with them based on their emotions.
    • jessvanorman
      jessvanorman on 14 Mar 19
       
      I think this is an important quality for all leaders!
  • There are always fires to put out and deadlines to meet, but when you don't have a lot of extra time, setting time aside to learn can be difficult. However, professional development and continued growth are the only surefire ways to make sure you don't get left behind in the tech world.
    • jessvanorman
      jessvanorman on 14 Mar 19
       
      This relates to what Michael Fullan says, admin should be "Lead Learners" where they are still learning and setting the example for their people.
  • forbes1977 on 10 Mar 19
     
    I feel these traits carry over from IT Leader to being the technology coordinator. The traits that actually stand out to me include "Continue to Learn and Grow", very important with technology and in education in general. And having great problem-solving skills when it comes to "fixing" technology and finding a solution for a teacher struggling to integrate technology.
stephanie karabaic

TED-Ed Clubs: What people are saying in the Twitterverse | TED Blog - 0 views

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  • stephanie karabaic on 07 Aug 14
     
    Ted Ed Twitter clubs!
Leah Starr

6 Great Platforms Where Students Share Book Reviews and Reading Recommendations ~ Educa... - 0 views

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  • Once you are registered you can then connect to people who read what you post and also interact with what they publish.
  • Once you are registered you can then connect to people who read what you post and also interact with what they publish.
  • also provides books with different reading levels and has a great and intuitive reading logs.
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  • Once you are registered you can then connect to people who read what you post and also interact with what they publish.
    • Leah Starr
      Leah Starr on 09 Jul 14
       
      Audience = engagement!
  • It lets you create a virtual bookshelf, discover new books, connect with friends and learn more about your favourite books for free.
  • It lets you create a virtual bookshelf, discover new books, connect with friends and learn more about your favourite books for free.
  • ne of the best ways to get your students motivated about reading is to provide them with online platforms where they can meet other student readers and share their recommendations, reads, and book reviews.
  • you decide upon titles and genres you like and Good Reads gives you insightful recommendations and right into your inbox.
    • Leah Starr
      Leah Starr on 09 Jul 14
       
      This platform for recommendations keeps reading logs and provides books by reading level!
  • This is a platform where kids connect to their teachers, friends  and parents to share and recommend their favourite books and good reads. It
  • also provides books with different reading levels and has a great and intuitive reading logs. 5- Figment Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. 6- Scholastic Scholastic has a section in which teachers and students can share what they are reading and discover new books based on their friends recommendations. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); You might also like: 4 Important New Gmail Updates You Should not Miss Excellent Classroom Poster Featuring 10 iPad Usage Rules New Handy Chart on The Difference Between Projects and ...
  • Leah Starr on 09 Jul 14
     
    Book Recommendation Platforms.
holly_esterline

Future Ready: Growing Teachers As Leaders - YouTube - 1 views

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  • holly_esterline on 31 Jan 17
     
    I'm a little partial to this video because it includes a segment on the importance of librarians in implementing change. "Trust is about empowerment and creating permission for people to take risks in such a way that enables them to innovate, to iterate." "...have realistic expectations for what's going to happen. As much as there's a learning curve for students, there is very much for adults, too..."
kaliasnow

The Eight Characteristics of Effective School Leaders - 6 views

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  • ability to balance strategic and operational roles, and the ability to manage change and understand how it works
  • making the right appointments and in getting people in the right roles
  • is whether it is reasonable to expect to find them all in one person, and whether the increasingly onerous requirements of the job are off-putting for people who are eminently suitable to lead our schools
slangevin

Benefits - Google Apps for Education - 0 views

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  • slangevin on 14 Jul 13
     
    I will be directing people here to help explain the benefits to them and helping influence the switch to Google Apps.
slangevin

Baltimore City Public School students use new math app - 0 views

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  • slangevin on 29 Jul 13
     
    I'd like to know what people thought about this...
seantheoret

Creative Commons - 0 views

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  • seantheoret on 02 Aug 13
     
    Content that you can share, use, and remix without worrying about copyrights. This licensing tool gives people the right to share, use, and even build upon a work you've created.
Jill Dawson

generator | art + technology = generator - 0 views

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  • Generator—Burlington’s New Maker Space—is a combination of artist studio, classroom, and business incubator at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Generator creates a community of collaboration between artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and artisans. Generator’s objective is to foster a hybrid hive of activity that creates a fertile environment for innovation, creativity and idea fulfillment.
  • Jill Dawson on 15 Jul 14
     
    Generator is a new Maker Space located in the same building as the Burlington Arts Center.  This is a great place to bring students and build upon your PLN.  It's a nonprofit maker space that trains people and offers access to tool sets!
Torey Olson

you found me. | game designer, author, future forecaster, PhD - 0 views

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  • Torey Olson on 15 Jul 14
     
    game designer, author, future forecaster, PhD I chose Jane because she is a game designer and her games inspire myself and other teachers when creating gaming in the classroom. I enjoy reading about her latest games. Many of her games are designed to encourage people from all areas of the world to work together in a digital community to solve real world problems.
Jill Dawson

Global Learning | Franklin West Supervisory Union - 1 views

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  • Jill Dawson on 21 Jul 14
     
    This blog does a nice job of connecting the district's vision to the Vermont Educational Technology Plan.  I see the Targets, Action Steps, and Success Indicators clearly identified, as well as documentation of process and product.  This blog is a great way to maintain transparency within the community while keeping people accountable and modeling ways that the targets are being met.  
jessvanorman

Technology Infused Professional Development: A Framework for Development and Analysis -... - 0 views

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  • learning is both an active and a social process
  • learning is both an active and a social process
    • jessvanorman
      jessvanorman on 24 Mar 19
       
      Learning is active, requires doing, could learn a lot in a PD session where teachers just CREATE or DO things with tech they could actually do in their classroom.
  • Second, professional development must be developmentally appropriate. No two teachers are the same in their knowledge of content, instruction, and students, or in their experience in applying that knowledge to the classroom. Teachers must be supported at their current position on the journey from novice to expert. Professional development must start with the teacher and build on her/his current concept of teaching and learning and his/her goals and needs.
    • jessvanorman
      jessvanorman on 24 Mar 19
       
      Knowing this- how could we differentiate professional learning for teachers? How could we create tech PD that'd be meaningful to all- google surveys?
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  • Finally, professional development must allow teachers to take charge of their own professional growth. Teachers are professionals, not skilled laborers. Like all learners, teachers will only be impacted by those ideas in which they deliberately chooseto engage. Teachers must be afforded the respect to set their own course of development and be encouraged to actively monitor their own progress.
    • jessvanorman
      jessvanorman on 24 Mar 19
       
      Give choice- a menu of tools so people can choose what they are learning? A menu of skill levels to choose from too?
  • Of particular importance is the role of collaboration in professional development. In nearly all studies of professional growth and change in classroom teaching, the presence of other colleagues who are attempting to do the same is the most consistent predictor of success
    • jessvanorman
      jessvanorman on 24 Mar 19
       
      People learn together and grow together, but also learn from each other. This needs to be implemented in our tech PD.
  • Third, professional development takes time. The advantage of thinking of teaching as a skill is that training can happen quickly, often in the matter of weeks.
    • jessvanorman
      jessvanorman on 24 Mar 19
       
      It'd be great to have sessions that we can learn something... go try it... then come back and practice/reflect to keep learning with the tech/new tools.
  • Perhaps the best way to take advantage of the opportunities available through technology-mediated professional learning is to integrate e-learning into a balanced professional development program that combines formal face-to-face learning experiences optimally followed by online and one-on-one support, “just in time” training and development, and collaborative work on those tasks that most directly influence the quality of teaching and learning
    • jessvanorman
      jessvanorman on 24 Mar 19
       
      In face learning, with tech tools- could possible set up a Google Classroom "Forum" for teachers to ask questions and get further help when they are using the tools after PD. A please to drop questions and get support from "expert teachers."
pjspurlock

When Kids Google Themselves - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Natalie, now 13, said that in fifth grade she and her friends competed with one another over the amount of information about themselves on the internet. “We thought it was so cool that we had pics of ourselves online,” she said. “We would brag like, ‘I have this many pics of myself on the internet.’ You look yourself up, and it’s like, ‘Whoa, it’s you!’ We were all shocked when we realized we were out there. We were like, ‘Whoa, we’re real people.’”
    • pjspurlock
      pjspurlock on 26 Mar 19
       
      Wow! Something interesting to add to a lesson on you digital footprint for sure!
  • Natalie, now 13, said that in fifth grade she and her friends competed with one another over the amount of information about themselves on the internet. “We thought it was so cool that we had pics of ourselves online,” she said. “We would brag like, ‘I have this many pics of myself on the internet.’ You look yourself up, and it’s like, ‘Whoa, it’s you!’ We were all shocked when we realized we were out there. We were like, ‘Whoa, we’re real people.’”
njgordon33

11 Powerful Traits Of Successful Leaders - 9 views

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  • most leadership traits can be learned and sharpened with time and practice.
  • 11 must-have traits
  • Self-managing means being able to prioritize your goals and being responsible for accomplishing those objectives.
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  • handling stress and balancing their personal and professional lives
  • importance of compassion
  • espond to people and events in an appropriate way.
  • self-control and discipline in your actions
  • cultivate strategic thinking
  • curious and genuinely interested
  • flexible in your mindset
    • pwarmack
      pwarmack on 27 Jan 18
       
      "growth mindset"
  • Focusing on the future
  • positive outlook
  • able to clearly and succinctly explain to their employees everything from organizational goals to specific tasks.
  • one on one, to the department and to the entire staff, as well as via phone, email and social media.
  • being approachable and involving people from different levels.
    • pwarmack
      pwarmack on 27 Jan 18
       
      YES! Expanded circle of influence and influencers
  • hold themselves accountable and take responsibility for their own mistakes—and they expect others to do the same.
  • et clear goals and be determined and purposeful in achieving them
  • unshakable self-confidence
  • radiate enthusiasm
  • If you give up, so will everyone around you. To be a successful leader, you must be willing to keep going when others are tempted to throw in the towel.
  • pwarmack on 27 Jan 18
     
    An eleven-item "action list" of traits to develop for effective/powerful/successful leadership. Identifies each trait and why it is a "must-have"
njcaswell

The Influence of Teaching Beyond Standardized Test Scores: Engagement, Mindsets, and Ag... - 1 views

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  • there is growing agreement that scores on standardized tests of academic skills are incomplete measures of the important things that students learn from their teachers.
  • untested learning outcomes are measureable and that specific components of teaching influence them in nuanced and interesting ways.
  • Agency is the capacity and propensity to take purposeful initiative—the opposite of helplessness. Young people with high levels of agency do not respond passively to their circumstances; they tend to seek meaning and act with purpose to achieve the conditions they desire in their own and others’ lives.
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  • Ten Practical Implications for Teaching to Develop Agency
    • njcaswell
      njcaswell on 02 Apr 18
       
      Short list of concrete steps teachers can take to build student agency
  • Young people from every background deserve teaching that enhances their agency.
  • Awareness that success in life requires agency is not new. However, we have tended as a society to treat its development as mostly a family and community responsibility, not a focus for policymakers, curriculum developers, or teacher preparation programs.
    • njcaswell
      njcaswell on 02 Apr 18
       
      Call to adopt agency development into the core of education policy and practice
  • Empirical findings in the report are mostly consistent with what conventional wisdom would predict
    • njcaswell
      njcaswell on 02 Apr 18
       
      It's mostly common sense
  • The Tripod 7Cs Components
  • five categories of noncognitive factors related to academic performance:
  • Students’ perspectives concerning the teaching they experience can be valid and reliable indicators of instructional quality
  • teaching predicts a variety of agency related-factors that help prepare a student for success in school and life. These include the emotions, behaviors, and motivations that the student enacts in the classroom, in addition to the development of conscientiousness, future orientation, and growth mindset.
    • njcaswell
      njcaswell on 02 Apr 18
       
      These outcomes are significantly influenced by teaching
  • For happiness, learning, and high aspirations, we need high performance on multiple teaching components.
    • njcaswell
      njcaswell on 02 Apr 18
       
      Too much emphasis on one component will be ineffective. We need high performance across components.
  • agency helps human beings fit into the environment, solve problems, develop and communicate our identities, and plan for the future. Therefore, it is fundamentally important that parents and teachers help to inspire, enable, and focus agency by the opportunities, instruction, and guidance they provide.
  • njcaswell on 02 Apr 18
     
    "The report concerns the influence of teaching on emotions, motivations, mindsets, and behaviors that we associate with agency."
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