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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

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

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

When the Computer Takes Over for the Teacher - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 26 Mar 15
     
    "Whenever a college student asks me, a veteran high-school English educator, about the prospects of becoming a public-school teacher, I never think it's enough to say that the role is shifting from "content expert" to "curriculum facilitator." Instead, I describe what I think the public-school classroom will look like in 20 years, with a large, fantastic computer screen at the front, streaming one of the nation's most engaging, informative lessons available on a particular topic. The "virtual class" will be introduced, guided, and curated by one of the country's best teachers (a.k.a. a "super-teacher"), and it will include professionally produced footage of current events, relevant excerpts from powerful TedTalks, interactive games students can play against other students nationwide, and a formal assessment that the computer will immediately score and record. "
Janet Hale

Teacher Burnout Is More Likely Among Introverts - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 25 Jan 16
     
    Jayson Jones was my favorite person to call when I needed a substitute for my high-school English classes. Jayson was an aspiring teacher who was extremely popular with the students and related especially well with many of the at-risk kids. One day, I walked into the classroom at lunchtime, and he was sitting alone in the dark, listening to music. "Oh, an introvert?" I said. "I had no idea." He smiled and responded, "Absolutely. I do this every day to recharge." Unfortunately for me and thousands of future students, Jayson has left the classroom for the workshop: He's refurbishing furniture instead of teaching and says that his "introversion definitely played a part."
Janet Hale

Tech Transformation: The SAMR Model - From theory to practice - 1 views

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  • Janet Hale on 21 Aug 11
     
    "Last month, while at the Apple Education Leadership Conference, I went to a presentation about the SAMR model. This weekend the IT department went on a retreat to our school's chalet in the Alps and one of the issues we were considering was how to raise the level of technology from enhancing the curriculum to transforming the curriculum. Often we attend planning meetings where teachers suggest using technology in a way that is merely enhancing what they are doing (the S and A in the model) - we have decided that if they want to do that they should book the lab themselves and do these activities, the ones shown in blue on the above diagram - and that this will free us up as IT teachers to go into the classrooms to concentrate more on the M and R to transform the learning experience (shown in pink on the diagram)."
Janet Hale

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CCSSM The Navigator University of Michigan Standards-Resources Gap Analysis

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  • Janet Hale on 27 Feb 15
     
    "The Navigator tool is an online database that maps every lesson in the district's mathematics textbooks to the CCSSM. These linkages have been identified and reviewed by a team of CSC reviewers. This information is made available to teachers for their use in two ways: 1) textbook lessons are linked to the specific CCSSM standards addressed, and 2) any specific CCSSM standard is linked to all the textbook lessons that address it. This allows teachers to make informed decisions about which lessons to teach and in what sequence"
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

Common Core's unintended consequence? - The Hechinger Report - 0 views

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shared by Janet Hale on 27 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • One new product is coming from Schmidt and the Center for the Study of Curriculum: The Navigator — a web-based application that Schmidt said can tell teachers where in the math book they’re using (as long as it’s one of the 35 surveyed) they will find material on a particular standard and where else to look if the book doesn’t have it.
  • Janet Hale on 27 Feb 15
     
    "One new product is coming from Schmidt and the Center for the Study of Curriculum: The Navigator - a web-based application that Schmidt said can tell teachers where in the math book they're using (as long as it's one of the 35 surveyed) they will find material on a particular standard and where else to look if the book doesn't have it."
Janet Hale

Starting the conversation on teacherpreneurship SmartBlogs - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 03 Mar 15
     
    "Welcome to SmartBrief Education's original content series about the unique stories of teacherpreneurs. These are the innovative individuals confronting challenges, creating solutions and bringing them to market. Robert Ahdoot, a high-school math teacher and founder of yaymath.org, helps us kick off the series with a conversation with his mentor - and teacherpreneur - Bruce Powell. Powell is the founding Head of School of New Community Jewish High School in West Hills, Calif., where Ahdoot teaches."
Janet Hale

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  • Janet Hale on 04 Mar 16
     
    "The term curriculum refers to the lessons and academic content taught in a school or in a specific course or program. In dictionaries, curriculum is often defined as the courses offered by a school, but it is rarely used in such a general sense in schools. Depending on how broadly educators define or employ the term, curriculum typically refers to the knowledge and skills students are expected to learn, which includes the learning standards or learning objectives they are expected to meet; the units and lessons that teachers teach; the assignments and projects given to students; the books, materials, videos, presentations, and readings used in a course; and the tests, assessments, and other methods used to evaluate student learning. An individual teacher's curriculum, for example, would be the specific learning standards, , lessons, assignments, and materials used to organize and teach a particular course."
Janet Hale

Growth mindset guru Carol Dweck says teachers and parents often use her research incorr... - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 24 Nov 15
     
    "Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck has become something of a cult figure in education and parenting circles. Her research into boosting student motivation has spawned a mini industry of consultants, sold more than a million books and changed the way that many adults praise children."
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."
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Every Student Succeeds No Child Left Behind States now control

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  • Janet Hale on 10 Dec 15
     
    "WASHINGTON (AP) -- Those federally mandated math and reading tests will continue, but a sweeping rewrite of the nation's education law will now give states - not the U.S. government - authority to decide how to use the results in evaluating teachers and schools."
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  • Janet Hale on 08 Jan 16
     
    "Excellent tool to find out how higher ed colleges/universities are measuring up for undergrad and grad programs for education based on a rigorous standards framework.
Janet Hale

Education Week Teacher: Helping Students Motivate Themselves - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 07 Apr 11
     
    "However, you can help people discover what they can use to motivate themselves. This is very similar to what Edward Deci, one of the premier researchers and authorities on intrinsic motivation, wrote: "The proper question is not, 'how can people motivate others?' but rather, "how can people create the conditions within which others will motivate themselves?" "
Janet Hale

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  • Janet Hale on 04 Feb 16
     
    Hattie Meta-Analysis - Influences and effect sizes related to student achievement - MOST EFFECTIVE - PROVIDING FORMATIVE EVALUATION
Janet Hale

Collaboration: A Necessity, Not an Option | ASCD Inservice - 0 views

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  • Janet Hale on 07 Dec 15
     
    "It took me more than a decade to understand the importance and true worth of collaboration. During my early years in teaching, I strived hard, but I always worked in isolation. My aim was always to excel; thus, I built my library and invested a good amount of money to fill my shelves with physics books. I was mistaken. I focused too much on content and not enough on delivery-until I learned how to collaborate."
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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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