December 2014

Topic Videos – Motion Leadership in Action

Starting January 8th we will be posting weekly videos every Thursday for 22 weeks. These short topic clips, 2-3 minutes each, feature Michael Fullan and capture educators on site. They are real life examples suitable for teachers, principals, and administrators, designed and filmed to illustrate ‘motion leadership in action’.

We hope you enjoy them and look forward to your feedback!

 

 

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The Sacramento Bee Article – Twin Rivers Unified School District, California

Diana Lambert from The Sacramento Bee has written the following article on work we doing:

Twin Rivers Unified is one of four California school districts being studied by Canadian education expert Michael Fullan to evaluate how they attract, train and use staff.

“Twin Rivers is an interesting one to look at because it has been a struggling district” that has a new superintendent who wants to install changes, Fullan said.

Long Beach Unified,

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Leadership in a Digital Age Workshop – Ottawa, November 2015

Based on the latest knowledge in Fullan’s newest book, Freedom to Change: Four Strategies To Put Your Inner Drive Into Overdrive, and on the work in new pedagogies for deep learning, this institute will narrow in on the dilemmas of change: That the new digital age has provided us with free rein to change and with that comes new challenges and problems.

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International School Leadership Webinars

International School Leadership is offering a series of free online webinars. The webinars feature principal training program conversations abroad, and interviews with members of their advisory committee including:

  • Andy Hargreaves
  • Avis Glaze
  • Karen Edge
  • Ken Leithwood
  • Lyn Sharratt
  • Michael Fullan

For more information, please go to: http://internationalschoolleadership.com/media/

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Hargreaves & Fullan win the Grawemeyer Education Award

The Grawemeyer Awards are five annual prizes given in the fields of music, political science, psychology, education and religion. They were founded by H. Charles Grawemeyer to help make the world a better place.

Grawemeyer distinguished the awards by honoring ideas rather than life-long or publicized personal achievement. He also insisted that the selection process for each of the five awards–though dominated by professionals-include one step involving a lay committee knowledgeable in each field. As Grawemeyer saw it, great ideas should be understandable to someone with general knowledge and not be the private treasure of academics.

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