Staff Development

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• Data Visualization for the Classroom

  
  What It's Like on the Inside — Authority: 111
  I recently got to take my Data Visualization presentation out for a spin. Ive been thinking about it for close to year. I was foolish enough to put in presentation proposals for such a session long before I really even knew what I might talk about. And unlike every other type of proposal Ive developed, this topic was ...
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• Secular v. sectarian Christmas displays: What is the obligation of public schools to be welcoming?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 571
  I walked into one of the Iowa Area Education Agencies (AEAs) last week and saw a tree in the foyer that was decorated with lights, tinsel, ornaments, a star on top, and presents underneath. The area around the receptionist’s desk was decorated with red and green garland; a Santa Claus candy dish; little stockings ...
  5 days ago

• Video - What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 571
  Heres a new video from Heidi Clark and Anita Bramhoff, two Canadian teachers who made the film as part of some work at the University of British Columbia. Happy viewing!
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• Some thoughts on U.S. News & World Reports 100 best public high schools

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 571
  My father-in-law gave me the January 2010 issue of U.S. News & World Report . It features a number of articles on P-12 education and includes detailed tables of its ‘ 100 best public high schools ’ in the United States. I’ve been playing around with the data a bit… 1. Nationally, it helps to be rich ...
  6 days ago

• The Builder- Designing The Future of Educational Leadership

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  If we are to create "tomorrows" educationalorganization and model, are the leaders of "yesterdays" model theleaders we will need to build "tomorrows" model? If education is to be transformed, should we not transformits leaders? If we are to create a new educational organization, then does itfollow, we would need a ...
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• Effective Human Resource Management

  
  The Screwdriver Center — Authority: 122
  A prosperous business depends to a great extent on the effective management of staff. People management may be improved and learned. Having a intuitive affinity for getting along with people and building relationships is a plus, all the same there are a few things you can do to simplify the process. Build ...
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• How Good Is Your Educational Sales Force and Their Products?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  I have been read and enjoyed a great book called Death To All Sacred Cows by David Bernstein , Beau Fraser , and Bill Schwab of The Gate Worldwide . It has nothing to do with education, so, of course, I was instantly attracted to it.   In their chapter titled The Sales Force Makes The Sale, they write about ...
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• ISTE conference keynote - Final totals (by category and overall)

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 571
  Here is the final leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project . Category winners are Chris Lehmann, Alan November, David Pogue, David Rose, and Karl Fisch. If votes from all categories were totaled, this would be the leaderboard: The top five - Chris Lehmann, Jeff Piontek, Gary Stager, ...
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• Blending Education and Design

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Allow me to dream and muse for a moment. Allow me to dream of a blending, a fusion of education and design. Allow me to imagine, just for a moment, a new design all together different from what we know. A Design that enhances learning. A Design that creates a learning environment. An environment that makes learning ...
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• Unperceived changes followed by dislocating explosions

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 571
  Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, & Harry Lewis say… Exponential growth of anything can suddenly make the world look utterly different than it had been. When that threshold is passed, changes that are “just” quantitative can look qualitative. Another way of looking at the apprent abruptness of exponential ...
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• Education Innovation: Nominated For The 2009 Edublog Awards

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  There are thousands of excellent blogs about education and I enjoyreading many of them. That is why it is so humbling for me to have thisblog, Education Innovation nominated for the 2009 Edublog Awards in the   Best Individual Edublog category . It is an honor to be included amongthe other nominees, many of ...
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• HELP WANTED: Looking for some assistance with my next survey of the edublogosphere

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 571
  I’m looking for a few folks who might be interested in helping me with my next survey of the edublogosphere. I’d love to have some assistance devising questions, analyzing and presenting the results, publicizing the survey, etc. I’ve done two of these in the past: 2008 -  2008 Education Blogosphere Survey ...
  2 weeks ago

• 12-14 ISTE conference keynote update - David Rose takes over category lead

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 571
  Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project . Not much voting activity. Chris Lehmann still holds his lead over Jeff Piontek. David Rose has taken the lead in the Universal design for learning category. I’ll post one more update tomorrow, which is the last day of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Education Needs To Take A Trip

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Trust. We all want it, but do we all give it? It is a crucial issue for teachers and administrators. Chapter 3 of the book The Collaborative Administrato r is titled “Trust: The Secret Ingredient to Successful Shared Leadership.” Trust is a key to school success. “What then should a principal do to lay ...
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• Never going to happen?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 571
  True statement by a teacher (said with all sincerity) in one of my workshops this semester: We’re so far behind our students. How do we catch up and move past them so that we can then teach them things they don’t know?
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• Single-media schools, multimedia world

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 571
  If a picture tells a thousand words, then the two images below from a recent report by the Global Information Industry Center  at the University of California, San Diego are of interest. The first image shows the average American’s hourly information consumption per day. Note that the small yellow wedge ...
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• 12-10 ISTE conference keynote update - All is quiet on the voting front

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 571
  Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project . No major changes in the last four days. Voting is slowing. Chris Lehmann still holds his lead over Jeff Piontek. I’ll try to post an update every day or two between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?  
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• Do Your Educational Assumptions Provide Educational Alternatives?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  Do your assumptions about what education should be leave you with a lack of alternatives? One of the reasons why many people, including myself, love books like Freakonomics , Super Freakonomics , Predictably Irrational , or The Economic Naturalist is that is takes our assumptions about the world around us and ...
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• Mentors for ThoseTeaching Online Courses

  
  Technology at Albany Law School — Authority: 117
  excerpts from   Learning From Online (Inside Higher Ed News) – December 7, 2009   Since most professors have spent their lives holding forth from the front of a lecture hall, many have not had to engineer their lesson plans with the sort of rigor required of a well-designed online course, Buckenmeyer says. ...
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• CASTLE has a new blog! Check out 1to1Schools.net

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 571
  Some of you have noticed that CASTLE has a new blog: 1to1 Schools .  We’re excited about this new venture, which is meant to highlight news, stories, videos, and other resources related to elementary and secondary 1:1 laptop programs. 1to1 Schools is a group blog. For example, check out Nick Sauers’ ...
  2 weeks ago

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