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November 2014
This note is for all those committed to and interested in how California can improve its education performance statewide over the next four years—improvements across the entire system and all of its levels. We believe that there are enough forces aligned to make this result a distinct possibility. The actions and coordinated efforts we outline in this paper are practical and realistic. Our team is working in partnership with a number of groups at all levels of the state.
… Read more California’s Golden Opportunity – Status Note
To raise the bar and close the gap for students means improving ALL schools in the system—not just a few. Piecemeal or small-scale reform doesn’t work. What does work is focusing on the three core components of deep learning: learning & teaching, change knowledge, and the culture of learning. Using the whole system change strategies in this framework, we have found that we can get great results in a reasonably short period of time.
This is topic video 16 of 22.
… Read more Topic Video: Framework for Whole System Change
At William G. Davis Senior Public School, when the idea of BYOB came up, principal Andrea Meyer gave every teacher an iPod and said ‘Have fun!’. He knew that capacity building requires skill, knowledge and motivation. View this video to see how teachers teamed up and reached out to each other in a brilliant fashion to develop the strategies they needed to reach their goals.
This is topic video 15 of 22.
Topic video 16 will be posted Thursday,
… Read more Topic Video: Capacity Building
In this video filmed at Park Manor Public School in Ontario, Vice Principal Liz Anderson describes the importance of focusing on the student. The Accelerated Learning Framework, developed at Park Manor to provide clarity about what learning needs to be, uses pedagogy as the driver and digital to accelerate learning.
This is topic 14 of 22.
Topic video 15 will be posted Thursday, April 23.
… Read more Topic Video: Focus
This video is an excellent example of a motion leader in action. Central Peel Secondary School principal, Lawrence DeMaeyer talks with Michael about how his school collaborates between and among other schools.
This is topic video 13 of 22.
Topic video 14 will be posted Thursday, April 16th.
… Read more Topic Video: Collaborative Networks
When in doubt, it’s better to examine your practice and that of others who seem to be getting somewhere than it is to reach for the bookshelf. New work on understanding the brain bears out this idea. We know that the brain is best fed through experience. When people experience something new, it connects with their feelings first, then their minds. When this leads to new behavior, the latter sticks because it has emotional meaning. This is why I have stressed going from practice to theory.
… Read more Topic Video: Practice to Theory
Christina Quattrocchi, staff writer, EdSurge, wrote the following article on Diffusing Tension Between Tech and Instructional Leaders:
One might expect bandwidth, data privacy and device rollouts to dominate discussions at this year’s Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) conference, where over 900 chief technology officers (CTO) and other administrators gathered.
But the opening message was quite the opposite. Keynote speaker Michael Fullan, Canadian education writer and researcher shared one simple message: “It’s time to shift focus from the digital to the pedagogical.”
… Read more Diffusing Tension Between Tech and Instructional Leaders
School boredom has no chance against the addictive digital draw of the outside world. Within schools, technology is conspicuous by its absence or by its superficial, ad hoc use. Stratosphere wants to change that. How can technology help us by opening up the world to deeply engaged learning and worldwide, collaborative problem-solving? In a word, technology, well used, can help us race rapidly to a future that humankind wants and will find fulfilling. (Stratosphere,
… Read more Topic Video: Push & Pull: The Role of Technology
By D. Frank Smith
Frank is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazine websites.
To embrace a deeper learning landscape, educators must work together to make digital pedagogy appetizing.
That’s the takeaway from the opening keynote at CoSN 2015 in Atlanta, led by Michael Fullan, an education researcher and a former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Fullan has spent years studying the horizon of education technology in schools all over the world,
… Read more CoSN 2015: An Unstoppable Digital Revolution is Around the Corner
Based on Michael’s book, The Moral Imperative Realized, this short, inspirational video is a reminder that school leaders and principals must answer the call to drive the change our children deserve.
This is topic video 10 of 22.
Topic video 11 will be posted Thursday, March 19th.
… Read more Topic Video: The Moral Imperative Realized
