Waukee school board studies calendar issues through survey | Des Moines Register Staff ... - 0 views
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The No. 1 Leadership Trait You Really Need to be Successful - 0 views
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Leaders who are truly (1) servant-hearted; (2) able to put others and the organization first ; and, (3) willing to listen with humility to other points of view are the ones that people will follow. Thus, if you want to win in today’s hyper-competitive world of work you should (1) hire, promote and retain people who fit that description; and, (2) strive to fit it yourself.
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 0 views
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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.
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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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"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.
A New Era Of Learning - 0 views
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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
Iowa education director favors opting out of No Child Left Behind - 0 views
The Five Dimensions of Learning-Agile Leaders - Forbes - 0 views
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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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The Internet will not ruin college - Salon.com - 0 views
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What happens to the people who make their livings from teaching, when their jobs are replaced by online courses available for free? All we need is one superb remedial algebra course that can be effectively delivered online and, theoretically, the demand for a zillion remedial algebra courses taught at a zillion community colleges suddenly drops off a cliff. Ask the music business what happens when you can get good stuff for free instead of paying for crap. Daily newspaper journalists learned a similar lesson all too well over the past two decades. The Associated Press business model — licensing the same story to multiple outlets, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense once a single news outlet puts that AP story online for free.
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My own daughter is a freshman at a U.C. campus, and has already experienced lectures attended by more than 500 students with sections led by teaching assistants who are utterly uninterested in doing their job. For dollar paid, the value received is questionable, and whenever that kind of situation exists, the status quo is ripe for disruption. (It’s also worth noting, perhaps, that over 60,000 students applied for spots in a freshman class that ended up enrolling only 4,500 applicants, a sign, I think, that the brick-and-mortar university is in no imminent danger of going the way of the dinosaur.)
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Education, I’d argue, has always been the most likely sector of society to get transformed by the Internet, because the thing the Internet does better than anything else is distribute information.
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College Degree, No Class Time Required - WSJ.com - 0 views
Degrees Based on What You Can Do, Not How Long You Went - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Now, I’m an old English professor who taught the Joyce course here at Madison two years ago,” he says. “The idea that you can’t understand Joyce unless you take it from Reilly three hours a week — that we faculty own the knowledge and anyone who’s going to be well educated has to get it from us — the world has changed so much that that’s no longer true.”
Class sizes are getting bigger, but does it really matter? - USATODAY.com - 1 views
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Conventional wisdom says the smaller the classes, the better the education, because teachers can pay more attention to each child. But while smaller classes are popular, decades of research has found that the relationship between class size and student outcomes is murky.
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A study released in May by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University found that the Florida program had no effect on student achievement.
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"They intuitively believe that small class sizes will allow more individual attention."
Top 20 Websites No Teacher Should Start the 2010-2011 Year Without - 2 views
L.A. teacher ratings: L.A. Times analysis rates teachers' effectiveness - latimes.com - 0 views
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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.
Education Week: All of My Favorite Students Cheat - 0 views
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Savvy students denigrate that plagiarist. “It’s stupid to get caught taking things from the Internet,” one told me. “No one should be doing that” because it lacks subtlety. They rationalize other forms of cheating as more acceptable. Some claim thoughtless pedagogy justifies their own copying of homework. “We aren’t going to respect teachers who give us photocopied worksheets as ‘busywork.’ We’re not going to waste our time doing that.” Others assert they are “sticking it to the man,” who makes them overwork. Still others say that “as long as we do well on the tests, the homework doesn’t matter.” Grades are “the bottom line.”
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They would not do it, they say, “if the school worked better.”
Schools: The Disaster Movie - 0 views
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Whereas the best public-school systems in the world—Finland, Singapore, South Korea—recruit all of their teachers from the top third or better of their college graduates, in America the majority come from the bottom two-thirds, with just 14 percent of those entering teaching each year in high-needs schools coming from the upper third. And the numbers may be getting worse. According to a recent survey conducted by McKinsey, a meager 9 percent of top-third graduates have any interest in teaching whatsoever.
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teacher quality is a national priority: Educators are paid competitively; education schools are highly selective; jobs are guaranteed for those credentialed; and professional development is ample and subsidized.
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“If you want to change public education, you have to do something that feels like a threat to the status quo,” says Canada. “If we don’t fight about this, if we can shake and be friends, we ain’t going to change. And if we don’t change, huge numbers of kids ain’t going to make it. There is no Superman coming to save them. All they have is us.”
When differentiating instruction makes little sense | Clayton Christensen - 0 views
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content-rich guaranteed curriculum that is consistently well delivered and clear lessons that have frequent checks for understanding.
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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
Survey: Supportive leadership helps retain top teachers - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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To retain good teachers, 68 percent called supportive leadership "absolutely essential," 45 percent said the same of higher salaries and 8 percent listed performance pay. Many of those surveyed also described "relevant" professional development as essential, along with "clean and safe" working conditions, time for teachers to collaborate and access to high-quality curriculum. In addition, 71 percent said monetary rewards for teacher performance would have moderate or no impact on student achievement.