Critical Friends

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• Essential Education: Charles Leadbeater on Collaborative Creativity

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  
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• Be More Than A School Administrator...Be An Innovation Coach

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  I have an idea… "It will never work." "We don’t have the budget to do it." "It will take to much time and we just don’t have any to waste." "The district won’t like it." "Teachers won’t want to do that." "That isn’t the way we do things at this school." "What does that have to do with test scores?" ...
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• What Would Peter Drucker Say About Education Leadership?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  What follows is a quote from Peter Drucker ,but with an Education Innovation twist. I have removed words likebusiness, company, executive, and economics; and replaced them withschool(s), education, and principal. “Schools prefer not toabandon the old, the obsolescent, the no-longer-productive; they’drather hang ...
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• Essential Education: "Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom" by Alan November

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
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• Literacy Challenges of The Social Technographic Ladder

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  The ladder. Charlene Li and Josh Bernofff have written a great book titled Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies . In their book they describe The Social Technographics ladder. “Each step on the ladder represents a group of consumers moreinvolved in the groundswell than the ...
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• Dumber Together? Brainstroming in a Professional Learning Community

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  You have seen it before. The PLC agenda says, “Brainstorm ideas for…” You look around and see the chartpaper, pens, and Post-It notes lying on the table, and you think toyourself, “Why do we waste the time.” You know the rules of brainstorming in PLCs … 1. No criticism 2. Wild ideas are ...
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• Do The Math- The Networked Collaborative Formula

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  The Professional Networked Learning Collaborative has a large network surface area. Network surface area is a measurement of the extent and number of connections from the team members who are physically present with each other, and community partners, useful outsiders, specialists, consultants, professors, etc. who ...
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• Educations Triple Bottom Line

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  How does an organization measure success?  One measure, or should I say three, is the Triple Bottom Line . According to Wikipedia , “The phrase was coined by John Elkington , co-founder of the business consultancy SustainAbility in 1994. It was later expanded and articulated in his 1998 book Cannibals with ...
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• Essential Education: "Trust Agents" by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  
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• Putting Students First and Putting Teachers First: The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  Part 6 in a series of posts on Ambidextrous Professional Learning Communities In a previous post “ The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community ” I shared it is the ability to embrace a duality in their thinking that builds an Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community .To hold two opposing ideas in their ...
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• Six Steps To Becoming A Professional Learning Community Coach

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  I have advised those concerned with the performance of Professional Learning Communities to gain fresh insight into how PLCs behave and information about how to drive improvement or fix problems is to play the role of the anthropologist. The Anthropologist is one of the three learning personas from the Tom Kelleys ...
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• Innovation Is Not Invention

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  Dont confuse innovation with invention- Innovation is not invention Every test youve ever taken measured how well you understood the past not how well you create the future.
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