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Janet Hale

High-Performance Teacher Education: An Essential Component of the New System - Top Perf... - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 19 Feb 16
     
    "This blog is another in the series devoted to proposing reforms in the American education system based on the strategies that the countries with the most successful education systems in the world have been using. In this blog, I address the reforms that are needed in the initial preparation of teachers. Almost two years ago, our Center for International Education Benchmarking gave Linda Darling-Hammond and a global team of researchers she assembled a large grant to do a multi-year international comparative study of teacher quality. The issue of initial teacher preparation is one of the topics addressed in that study. The research for the teacher quality study has been done, and the analysis is in progress. The results should be available in a few months. The conclusions and proposals in this blog draw on research we and other scholars have done, including other research done by Professor Darling-Hammond, but not in the forthcoming book. "
Janet Hale

Remembering Sandy Hook Blogtacular - Amherst, NY, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - ... - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 14 Dec 13
     
    "Last December, after the events at Sandy Hook Elementary, I stumbled upon the Facebook page that Ana Marquez-Greene's parents had set up for her. I followed the page and spent the last year getting to know Ana through the eyes of her parents. I knew that I wanted to commemorate the day with a blog post that celebrated the life of this angel. I've been preparing to write that post for months."
Janet Hale

22 Mind-Blowing Infographics on Education | Socrato Learning Analytics Blog - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 10 Jul 11
     
    "Visual representations of data is extremely valuable for all of us in the education industry; we've got to consume a lot of it to make valuable decisions for our students and schools."
Janet Hale

Unpacking a Twitter Conference Feed | Langwitches Blog - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 29 Mar 15
     
    "Twitter can be overwhelming, even for a seasoned Twitterer. We use tools, such as Tweetdeck, to help us organize the tweets coming in --we use #hashtags to filter and connect our conversations --we @mention, we RT, we DM, we #FF --we participate in #edchats --we give credit where credit is due --we take notes --we disseminate interesting information to our network --we amplify our voices to engage in conversation with people from around the world Yes, it can be overwhelming to follow a conference Twitter hashtag such as #AASSA15 (Association of American Schools in South America Annual Educators Conference . (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3). You will find a few sample sreenshots of Tweets from the AASSA conference in Curaçao. Unpacked and annotexted to make the value of Twitter as a Professional Development tool, a learning tool visible to the untrained eye."
Janet Hale

On Reading, Part 5: A key flaw in using the Gradual Release of Responsibility model | G... - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 31 Mar 15
     
    "Yes, reading strategies - and explicit teaching of them - make a considerable difference, as my previous four blog posts here, here, here, and here make clear. And there is much to like about the idea of the gradual release of (teacher) responsibility in the teaching of those strategies for reading - or anything else where we want skillfulness. The approach is interactive, empowering for kids, easy for most teachers to grasp and implement, and grounded in research."
Janet Hale

On literacy and strategy, part 6: my first cut at recommendations | Granted, and... - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 31 Mar 15
     
    "As the first phase of bringing closure to these blog posts on literacy at the secondary level, I want to offer a tentative list of recommendations that I believe follow from all the research cited in the previous posts. I will say more about each principle in follow-up posts, as well as offering brief bibliographic and graphic-organizer resources in support of each idea. (I offer some initial thoughts on Principle #1, below)."
Janet Hale

Top 14 Golden Rules of Content Marketing | Michael Spencer | LinkedIn - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 20 Jan 16
     
    I was talking today to a content strategist of a pretty amazing and growing Canadian company called Unbounce today, and it got me thinking about content marketing. It sort of took me back to the days of when I first read HubSpot's Inbound marketing primer. Those were the days, when quality content was enough to generate leads, when barely anyone had decent blogs.
Janet Hale

Implementing Expanded Learning Time: Six Factors for Success | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 22 May 13
     
    "In the fall of 2006, Clarence R. Edwards Middle School ("the Edwards" as it is known locally within Boston Public Schools) became one of the first schools in the state of Massachusetts to implement the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative. The reasons why were simple: we were not making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and we wanted to make significant academic gains with our students. As it turned out, making our school day longer was one of the best things we could have done to help reform our school model and improve student outcomes. Our statewide exam scores, student enrollment, daily student attendance rate, community and family engagement, and time for team teaching/collaboration all improved as a result of ELT. "
Janet Hale

Popsicle Math - Study Finds Playing Math Game Boosted Preschoolers Abilities - Early Ye... - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 20 Jun 16
     
    "Playing a math game designed to encourage practicing the basic "number sense" all children are born with improved the ability of young children in a study to do math, Johns Hopkins University researchers report. The study is due to be released in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology in July and is available online now. "
Janet Hale

Here's Another Mind-Blowing Pixar Theory, This One From 'Toy Story 2' - The Moviefone Blog - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 25 Feb 14
     
    "Jon Negroni isn't done with his Pixar theories. As it turns out, Andy, the boy Woody and Buzz Lightyear belong to in the "Toy Story" movies, has a surprising family history. Remember last summer, when Pixar superfan Negroni wrote up his incredibly comprehensive report linking all of the studio's movies into one giant, linear universe? It was an ambitious undertaking that resulted in something obsessively researched and remarkably well-reasoned. In short, it blew our minds. And now, he's reemerged with a new theory, this one revealing the secret identity of Andy's mom, pointing to the many clues served up in "Toy Story 2.""
Janet Hale

If Robots Will Run the World, What Should Students Learn? | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 01 Apr 14
     
    "Education has to focus on learning how to learn - metacognition. School will still be important, but not to impart what happened during the Revolutionary War or to teach the quadratic formula. School, he said, should focus on teaching young people the intangibles, the things that make humans unique: relationships, flexibility, humanity, how to make discriminating decisions, resilience, innovation, adaptability, wisdom, ethics, curiosity, how to ask good questions, synthesizing and integrating information, and of course, creating. "
Janet Hale

Insight and Outsight: 8 Strategies to Catalyze District-Wide Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 29 Jul 15
     
    "As I begin my tenth year as superintendent, I take stock of the significant changes that have occurred in my school district. As Pascal Finette says, social media have turned the world into a participation culture linked by a global communication network. And mobile devices, with 500 times the computing power that put astronauts on the moon, rest in the hands, pockets, and backpacks of children, not just top executives. Smart technologies have moved onto some college campuses, and students now receive texts telling them when washers are open for laundry. No longer science fiction, driverless vehicles represent real stories in our daily newsfeeds."
Janet Hale

Interested in writing for SmartBlogs? | SmartBlogs SmartBlogs - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 06 Oct 15
     
    "Interested in writing for SmartBlogs? SmartBrief's SmartBlogs network welcomes ideas for original editorial content from guest bloggers. If you're interested to writing for SmartBlogs, follow the six easy steps below."
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The Knowledge Funnel: A New Model for Learning by Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski (... - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 07 Apr 11
     
    "At Big Picture Learning, we are always trying to see learning with "new eyes" in order to enrich our school design and to sharpen our practice."
Janet Hale

Stretching One Great Teacher Across Many Classrooms : NPR Ed : NPR - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 30 Mar 15
     
    "A stack of research suggests that all the classroom technology in the world can't compare to the power of a great teacher. And, since we haven't yet figured out how to clone our best teachers, a few schools around the country are trying something like it: Stretching them across multiple classrooms. "We'll probably never fill up every single classroom with one of those teachers," says Bryan Hassel, founder of Charlotte-based education consulting firm Public Impact. But, he says, it's important to ask: "How can we change the way schools work so that the great teachers we do have can reach more of the students, maybe even all of them?""
Janet Hale

FAIR USE Five-Minute Film Festival: Copyright and Fair Use for Educators | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 09 Dec 15
     
    "I absolutely love it when teachers and students create, remix, and mash up media; it's a fantastic way to encourage deeper learning and media literacy. But one issue that complicates digital freedom of expression is copyright law. While many would argue that copyright law is outdated and badly in need of an overhaul, it's still critical that adults and kids alike have a basic understanding of what's legal and ethical while playing with other people's intellectual property. Here's a list of videos I collected to help you navigate the murky waters of copyright law in educational settings."
Janet Hale

Will ESSA Offer New Leadership Opportunities for Educators? - Teacher-Leader Voices - E... - 0 views

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  • 3) Teacher leadership is actually supported in ESSA. For the first time, there are numerous references made to teacher leadership in ESEA, offering an opportunity for school systems to channel federal funds into teacher leadership and to think about staffing schools differently: P. 319, lines 17-21: "providing training and support for teacher leaders and principals or other school leaders who are recruited as part of instructional leadership teams." P. 333, lines 11-17: "A description of the local educational agency's systems of professional growth and improvement, such as induction for teachers, principals, or other school leaders and opportunities for building the capacity of teachers and opportunities to develop meaningful teacher leadership." P. 350, lines 15-18: "successful fulfillment of additional responsibilities or job functions, such as teacher leadership roles" P. 356-357, lines 21-25 and 1-3: "authority to make staffing decisions that meet the needs of the school, such as building an instructional leadership team that includes teacher leaders or offering opportunities for teams or pairs of effective teachers or candidates to teach or to start teaching in high-need schools together."
  • Janet Hale on 08 Jan 16
     
    "So how will the Every Student Succeeds Act be different? "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme!" is a caution for us; we need to learn where we went wrong with NCLB and waivers. One key error was the development of well-intentioned policies without the benefit of practicing educators at the decision making table. National polling shows that only 2% of teachers feel their voices are heard at the national level. My colleague Justin Minkel calls it the "implementation gap" - the gulf between a policy's intended impact and its actual impact once it rolls out with real kids in real classrooms. When you don't have practicing educators assisting with the decision making, that gap is inevitable. ESSA provides new access points to teachers in three ways..."
Janet Hale

School Climate: Ed. Dept. Provides Free Surveys, Resources to Schools - Rules for Engag... - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 04 Apr 16
     
    "The U.S. Department of Education released a free, web-based survey Thursday that schools can use to track the effectiveness of school climate efforts and resources on how to best improve learning environments for students. The surveys, developed with input from researchers and the department's office of safe and healthy students, can be administered to middle and high school students, staff, parents, and guardians, providing real-time data about their perceptions of the school environment."
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Michael Fullan Affirms the Power of Collective Efficacy - Learning Forward's PD Watch -... - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 11 Apr 16
     
    "At a learning session I attended recently, Michael Fullan announced that, after reviewing John Hattie's research on practices with the most significant impact in schools, collective efficacy is the new winner. Once again, we have evidence that harnessing the power of the group rather than relying solely on the individual is key to unlocking the full potential of educators and students in schools. Collective efficacy -- educators' belief that in working together, they have the capability to improve significant challenges in schools -- doesn't just happen when systems or schools offer educators the opportunity to collaborate. According to Fullan, four conditions are essential to create collective efficacy."
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