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What Does It Mean to Be a "Change Leader" in Education? - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 16 Jan 13 - No Cached

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
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nderstand deeply is the world for which they are preparing their students
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what skills, what habits of mind, and what dispositions
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ommoditization of knowledg
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how much students know, but rather what they can do with what they know
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second world effective change leaders understand is the world of students
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the importance of students’ intrinsic motivation for learning and achievement. Finally, they seek out and listen carefully to students to better understand their classroom and school experiences.
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They engage them in adult learning about a changing world and how students learn best
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adults in the community also deeply understand the need for change, and so these leaders sponsor readings, talks by local experts, and discussions
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The best change leaders I know bring their understanding of these two worlds into the classroom every single day
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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.
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“isolation is the enemy of improvement,”
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Teachers must be given the working conditions that will enable them to improve and to be successful. They need time to learn and to collaborate
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Finland, which has the highest-performing education system in the world, teachers spend an average of only 600 hours a year in the classroom teaching lessons; in the US, the number is closer to eleven hundred hours.
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Finally, the most effective change leaders I know take calculated risks
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Managers do not take risks. Leaders do
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They model the behaviors of learning, collaboration, effective teaching, and risk taking that they expect of their teachers.
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- Deron Durflinger on 16 Jan 13
  
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