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Deron Durflinger

"No thanks. I choose to do nothing." | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views

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  • All administrators have to do is LOOK AROUND and they can see the changes in their students. In society at large. In the many institutions that are dying in the face of these transformative technologies.
    • Deron Durflinger
      Deron Durflinger on 12 Aug 10
       
      This is a great point.
Deron Durflinger

The Four Capacities Every Great Leader Needs (and Very Few Have) | Fast Company - 1 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • expectations become self-fulfilling.
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      Deron Durflinger on 19 Oct 10
       
      This can be true for teachers and students as well. People rise the to the level of expectation placed on them.
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When differentiating instruction makes little sense | Clayton Christensen - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 05 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • content-rich guaranteed curriculum that is consistently well delivered and clear lessons that have frequent checks for understanding.
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      Deron Durflinger on 05 Nov 10
       
      Frequent check for understanding of clear expectations
  • The best online learning works on a mastery-based system—where students do not advance until they have mastered a concept (as opposed to the current system where everyone moves on no matter if they have mastered the concept) and thus there are frequent check-ins to see how much a student understands and to cycle back into more learning opportunities where appropriate
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U.S., Iowa need new education culture | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 09 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Higher teacher salaries that attract and keep the brightest professionals are also needed. Here's what a PISA report had to say about that: "The findings from PISA suggest that systems prioritizing higher teachers' salaries over smaller classes tend to perform better, which corresponds with research showing that raising teacher quality is a more effective route to improved student outcomes than creating smaller classes."
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Education Week: Building the Digital District - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 19 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • instead, it tells teachers to seek their own content and align it to the subject curriculum
  • 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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  • I would say the biggest challenge teachers have is the lack of time
  • It’s a constant challenge for teachers to go out and to find new innovative resources and what actually matches the new curriculum they need
  • going back is not really an option.”
  • acknowledge that the district’s modest size was a key factor in helping it change its culture and improve its achievement so quickly
  • saying the digital-conversion model “may be the one last great hope for our nation.”
  • Colleagues insist any such effort in other districts must be led by a superintendent in the same mold. “He just doesn’t allow anybody around him to make excuses or build obstacles,” Principal Wirt of Mooresville High says of Edwards. “That’s not his ride at all.”
  • e did so bent on changing what he recalls as a “complacent” attitude among teachers and other staff members in a school where achievement data were average. As he walks the halls nearly four years later, he takes perhaps his greatest pride in seeing most of the same faces standing in classroom doorways
  • by all accounts Mooresville’s teachers were given little choice but to join a new culture where 6,000 district-issued laptops to students and staff served as the centerpiece of Superintendent Edwards’ educational improvement strategy
  • Similar compliance was also expected in accompanying changes to curriculum, teacher collaboration expectations, and even staff conduct, all of which began to be implemented in the fall of 2008
  • I think ‘expectation’ is the right word,
  • ‘Here is your laptop, and you will learn how to use it. You will make it an integral part of your classroom, and you will incorporate it into 21st-century teaching.’ ”
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Study: Teacher hiring should be more scientific | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weat... - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 30 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • The ability to work well with others - flexibility and interpersonal skills - seemed to be a bigger factor in teacher retention than where the teacher went to college. Other things like experience and instructional skills also were big factors.
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      Deron Durflinger on 30 Oct 14
       
      #1 thing we look for in people
  • Our research suggests that teacher workforce improvements can be derived from more careful hiring decisions,
  • such as whether a teacher would be good at teaching students to be good citizens, Goldhaber said.
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