Top-down doesn’t work and site-based or bottom-up management doesn’t work either. The systems we are working with, like Sanger Unified in California, cultivate partnerships and leadership from the middle to get coherence. They develop a ‘whole system identity’.
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This powerful term can be interpreted in different ways, but what does pedagogy really mean and why is the new pedagogy having such a great impact? When integrated with a small number of deep learning goals and accelerated by technology, the outcomes are extraordinary.
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Today, California Forward releases A Golden Opportunity: The California Collaborative for Education Excellence as a Force for Positive Change, prepared in partnership with internationally acclaimed education reform practitioner Michael Fullan. The paper suggests considerations for the recently created California Collaborative for Educational Excellence.
Accelerate change and break the mold of inertia, stagnation and low moral by creating excitement. This requires recognizing the potential of small changes to have huge impact, especially when there is ‘positive contagion’.
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Worlds of Education is celebrating the completion of the first phase of Education International‘s Quality for Education campaign with several insightful articles by globally renowned policymakers, educators, authors and researchers.
Included in the publication is Fullan new article, Next Steps in Teacher Policy: Clarifying dangerous half truths. Here Fullan presents six ideas that in combination lead to greater performance of the teaching profession as a whole and thus, greater education achievement of students.
We have been working in California and, among so many others, are committed to and interested in how it 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 and the actions and coordinated efforts we are taking are practical and realistic. Our team is working in partnership with a number of groups at all levels of the state but it will be the internal leadership within the state that will lead and cause the change to happen.
In today’s video, Michael Fullan discusses the importance of building monitoring into the learning experience while simultaneously being open to innovation, especially technology.
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