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• Key Drivers Of The PLC Evolution

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  There are six “key drivers” that I see pushing Professional LearningCommunities to evolve into Professional Networked LearningCollaboratives. They are Technology, Wisdom Stewardship, Cultural,Accountability, External Approach, and Continuous Change, Choice, andDisruption. These six “key drivers” are having a ...
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• What I said to the NEA

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 564
  Earlier this month I asked what you would say to the NEA Board of Directors  if you had the chance. Thank you, everyone, who chimed in with thoughts and suggestions. Here’s what I ended up showing and saying to NEA’s Board. As you’ll hear, I pushed them a bit… Audio of presentation  (21 MB mp3) ...
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• Secular v. sectarian Christmas displays: What is the obligation of public schools to be welcoming?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 564
  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 ...
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• Video - What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 564
  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: 564
  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 ...
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• 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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• The Education Wars II--New Orleans

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  While New Orleans teachers are being fucked over, principals, who typically are too stupid or unethical to be in a classroom, are pulling down big bucks in these charter schools, just like "executives" : Now in control of their own budgets, many New Orleans charter school boards have invested heavily in school ...
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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: 564
  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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• QUICK Hits

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 572
  How can you tell if you’re a school administrator? When you hear the words “Winter Music Program,” is your first thought of students becoming ill — on stage? (Principals Page) Should Detroit’s public school teachers and administrators serve jail time for abysmal NAEP math scores, as some enraged parents ...
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• Unperceived changes followed by dislocating explosions

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 564
  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: 564
  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 ...
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• 12-14 ISTE conference keynote update - David Rose takes over category lead

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 564
  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 ...
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• 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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• How Schools Should Work with Non-Residential Parents

  
  Ohio Family Law Blog — Authority: 106
  Of course, it goes without saying that it is in the best interests of children when both parents are actively involved in their lives. Typically, children who have both parents raising them are more successful in many areas, including their academics. Unfortunately, due to divorce and circumstances such as parents ...
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• Never going to happen?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 564
  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: 564
  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: 564
  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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