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Deron Durflinger

The Five Dimensions of Learning-Agile Leaders - Forbes - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 10 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • At the same time, we need to have the confidence to make decisions on the spot, even in the absence of compelling, complete data.  The qualities needed at the top—openness, authentic listening, adaptability—also indicate that leaders need to be comfortable with and able to embrace the “grayness” that comes from other people’s ideas or situations that arise.
  • Learning Agility is a reliable indicator of leadership potential because learning agile people “excel at absorbing information from their experience and then extrapolating from those to navigate unfamiliar situations.
  • In short, Learning Agility is the ability to learn, adapt, and apply ourselves in constantly morphing conditions.
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  • Problem Solvers; Thought Leaders; Trailblazers; Champions; Pillars; Diplomats; and Energizers. The researchers wrote: “People who are learning agile: Seek out experiences to learn from; enjoy complex problems and challenges associated with new experiences because they have an interest in making sense of them; perform better because they incorporate new skills into their repertoire. A person who is learning agile has more lessons, more tools, and more solutions to draw on when faced with new business challenges.” (Hallenbeck, Swisher, and Orr, July 2011)
  • Mental Agility
  • People Agility
  • Change Agility
  • Results Agility:
  • Self-Awareness
  • The world of leadership belongs to the most learning agile
  • To succeed in our volatile, complex, ambiguous world, we have no choice but to master our ability to adapt and learn.
Deron Durflinger

What the NFL Scouting Combine Can Teach Us About Teacher Evaluation | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 30 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Characteristics like temperament, persistence and resilience matter more than test scores, especially in schools, because it's here that collaboration, not competitiveness, reigns supreme.
    • Deron Durflinger
      Deron Durflinger on 30 Apr 13
       
      Sounds a lot like Grit to me;)
Deron Durflinger

Montgomery County's 'Seven Keys to College Readiness' will get a makeover - The Washing... - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 22 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Montgomery Superintendent Joshua P. Starr seeks to broaden the system’s definition of student success to include skills not measured in standardized tests — such as persistence, motivation and grit — in addition to traditional academic knowledge focused on reading and math.
Deron Durflinger

What Does It Mean To Be A Change Leader in Education? - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 18 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • The first world that change leaders must understand deeply is the world for which they are preparing their students.
  • They realize that the world no longer cares how much students know, but rather what they can do with what they know.
  • he second world effective change leaders understand is the world of students
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  • Finally, they seek out and listen carefully to students to better understand their classroom and school experiences.
  • They engage them in adult learning about a changing world and how students learn bes
  • hey use these two criteria to continuously assess and improve instruction. They know what good teaching looks like, and they are relentless in their expectations. They understand that their job is, first and foremost, to be an instructional leader and coach
  • Finally, the most effective change leaders I know take calculated risks
  • Managers do not take risks. Leaders do
  • hey model the behaviors of learning, collaboration, effective teaching, and risk-taking that they expect of their teachers.
  • First, successful change leaders clearly articulate the need for change to a variety of audiences in ways that are intellectually coherent and emotionally compelling. The ability to do this requires that change leaders immerse themselves into radically different worlds
Deron Durflinger

Degrees Based on What You Can Do, Not How Long You Went - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 31 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Now, I’m an old English professor who taught the Joyce course here at Madison two years ago,” he says. “The idea that you can’t understand Joyce unless you take it from Reilly three hours a week — that we faculty own the knowledge and anyone who’s going to be well educated has to get it from us — the world has changed so much that that’s no longer true.”
    • Deron Durflinger
      Deron Durflinger on 31 Oct 13
       
      Love this quote from a veteran professor
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