Instead, the public school system's teachers are trained to assess children
in classrooms using independent tests they create themselves. All children
receive a report card at the end of each semester, but these reports are
based on individualized grading by each teacher.
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 0 views
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There's no word for accountability in Finnish,"
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"Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."
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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.
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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.
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In short, Learning Agility is the ability to learn, adapt, and apply ourselves in constantly morphing conditions.
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And it’s no surprise why. Change is hard—especially the kind of change I’m talking about here. It’s not about learning how to do PowerPoint; it’s about teaching students to use technology to teach themselves, to learn for themselves. In essence, it’s about teaching ourselves out of a job.
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No Choice
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I think a lot of his decisions are based on leadership,” Smith says of Edwards and his management. “You’ve got to have the right people on the bus, but not only that, they’ve got to be on the right seats on the bus.
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instead, it tells teachers to seek their own content and align it to the subject curriculum
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Teachers are expected to share lessons with colleagues electronically via ANGEL, the district’s content-management software, created by Washington-based Blackboard Inc., and all four schools in the district’s 1-to-1 program each employs a technology facilitator to aid that process. The district’s three elementary schools only began distributing laptops to its third graders this year.
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