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Deron Durflinger

A New Era Of Learning - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 10 Apr 10 - Cached
  • 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.
  • No Choice
Deron Durflinger

Florida's Class Size Amendment: Did it help students learn? : Education Next - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 15 May 10 - Cached
  • He found no detectable benefit from mandated class size reduction–either for students in general or for any student subgroup, racial, ethnic, or level of disadvantage.  In Chingos’s words, “the study strongly suggests that monies restricted for the purpose of funding class-size reduction mandates are not a productive use of limited educational resources.”
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Infinite Learning Lab Mobile - 0 views

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shared by Shannon McClintock Miller on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Shannon McClintock Miller on 15 Mar 11
     
    Love that they now have Professor Garfield Infinite Learning Apps....internet safety, fact or opinion, cyberbullying, etc....
Deron Durflinger

Do Principals Know Good Teaching When They See It? Miller-McCune.com - 1 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 24 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • conclude that most school leaders can’t identify or explain what constitutes good teaching, much less come up with helpful suggestions for improvement
    • Deron Durflinger
      Deron Durflinger on 26 Sep 11
       
      Principals need more training than teachers on what quality teaching looks like if we are truly going to moves schools forward
  • If we’re going to improve the quality of learning for all kids, we have to develop the expertise of those teachers we have in our ranks.”
    • Deron Durflinger
      Deron Durflinger on 26 Sep 11
       
      Improving learning opportunities for students starts with clearly identifying what good teaching looks like
  • hen they must guide, support and nurture teacher learning just like we expect teachers to do for students.”
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  • We think it’s really important for leaders to be clear about why they’re in schools and what they’re intending to accomplish.”
  • It takes expertise to make expertise,” Fink and Markholt say, yet coaching in schools is “still the very rare exception, not the norm.
Deron Durflinger

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.’ ”
Deron Durflinger

The 3 Simple Strategies Google Uses to Help Its Employees Learn | Inc.com - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 04 May 18 - No Cached
  • They shard their activities into tiny actions and repeat them relentlessly. Each time, they observe what happens, make minor -- almost imperceptible -- adjustments, and improve. Ericsson refers to this as deliberate practice: intentional repetitions of similar, small tasks with immediate feedback, correction, and experimentation."
Deron Durflinger

My Little (Global) School - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 03 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • The best schools, the study found, have strong fundamentals and cultures that believe anything is possible with any student: They “work hard to choose strong teachers with good content knowledge and dedication to continuous improvement.” They are “data-driven and transparent, not only around learning outcomes, but also around soft skills like completing work on time, resilience, perseverance — and punctuality.” And they promote “the active engagement of our parents and families.”
    • Deron Durflinger
      Deron Durflinger on 03 Apr 13
       
      How do we do in these areas?
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