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Deron Durflinger

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
  • nderstand deeply is the world for which they are preparing their students
  • what skills, what habits of mind, and what dispositions
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  • ommoditization of knowledg
  • how much students know, but rather what they can do with what they know
  • second world effective change leaders understand is the world of students
  • 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.
  • They engage them in adult learning about a changing world and how students learn best
  • adults in the community also deeply understand the need for change, and so these leaders sponsor readings, talks by local experts, and discussions
  • The best change leaders I know bring their understanding of these two worlds into the classroom every single day
  • 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.
  • “isolation is the enemy of improvement,”
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Finally, the most effective change leaders I know take calculated risks
  • Managers do not take risks. Leaders do
  • They model the behaviors of learning, collaboration, effective teaching, and risk taking that they expect of their teachers.
    • Deron Durflinger
      Deron Durflinger on 16 Jan 13
       
      What can I do to improve my leadership skills?
Deron Durflinger

L.A. teacher ratings: L.A. Times analysis rates teachers' effectiveness - latimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 16 Aug 10 - Cached
  • No one suggests using value-added analysis as the sole measure of a teacher. Many experts recommend that it count for half or less of a teacher's overall evaluation.
    • Deron Durflinger
      Deron Durflinger on 16 Aug 10
       
      I think it has to be part of the discussion though. We all agree that the most important factor to student learning is the quality of instruction the student receives.
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Demand, Pay for STEM Skills Skyrocket - STEM Education (usnews.com) - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 02 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • "In the end, you can track this back to high school math. We're very good at the high end, but math is the place most students fail … that's the biggest challenge of them all. How do we get young people to learn math?"
    • Deron Durflinger
      Deron Durflinger on 02 Nov 11
       
      No pressure math department:)
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