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California is on the Right Track to Improve Education

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Press Release

California on the Right Track to Improve Education
with Recommended Strategies for Improvement by Michael Fullan

In Taking Stock: Leadership from the Middle, Michael Fullan and Santiago Rincón-Gallardo report on how the transformation of California’s education sector is faring in terms of its strengths, weaknesses and accomplishments.

California’s approach, called by some The California Way, is expressed in the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and its companions the Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs).

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The Power of Unstoppable Momentum

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This new title by Michael Fullan and Mark Edwards highlights essential, immediate changes to K-12 Education.

Solution Tree, an educational publisher and professional development provider, has announced the release of The Power of Unstoppable Momentum: Key Drivers to Revolutionize Your District by Michael Fullan and Mark A. Edwards.

Fullan and Edwards detail a simple but powerful process for integrating technology, pedagogy, and deep learning that leads to lasting change in schools and districts.

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Making Progress Possible: A Conversation

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Do you ever wonder how to truly achieve change in your school or system? If you haven’t already read Michael Fullan’s book, The Six Secrets of Change, this interview with Naomi Thiers of Educational Leadership is a good place to start.

Michael Fullan Educational Leadership Interview (downloadable pdf)

Educational Leadership
June 2017 | Volume 74 | Number 9
Gearing Up for Change Pages 8-14
Making Progress Possible:
A Conversation with Michael Fullan

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Global Guru Ranking – 2017

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Global Gurus just announced that Michael Fullan has attained rank #8 in the Education category.

The Global Gurus website states that they are:

“… a research organization. We make our revenue from our advertisers at our sites and not from a GURU or GURU candidate.  Unlike other “Top Guru” or “Best…” lists out there, we do not sell our rankings nor do we give any ranking consideration to organizations who advertise. All Global Guru Sites choose remarkable leaders who makes an impact and who from people who took time to vote for them.

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Engage the world: Change the world: New Pedagogies for Deep Learning: Global Deep Learning Lab 2017 – Toronto, Ontario

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New Pedagogies for Deep Learning is pleased to announce the Global Deep Learning Lab (May 1-3, 2017) at the Toronto Sheraton Centre. The three-day event will be attended by NPDL partners from Australia, Finland, Netherlands, New Zealand, United States, Uruguay, and many others want to explore deep learning.

For more information on this exciting event, please click here

To find out more about New Pedagogies for Deep Learning please click here

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Deep Learning in a Digital World

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We would like to thank The Learning Exchange for producing a series of videos from Quest 2016. The theme of Quest was “Deep Learning in a Digital World” and the speakers in this resource address the characteristics of deep learning but also deal with issues of equity, diversity, educational change and global citizenship. Speakers include:
Sarah Prevette
Tony Glover
Peter Skillen
Michael Fullan
Carol Campbell
Andy Hargreaves
Rafranz Davis

 

About Quest:
Every year the York Region District School Board’s Quest Conference brings together members of the educational community from around the world.

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Just Released: Ontario Ministry of Education Videos

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The Ontario Ministry of Education filmed a series of 10 short videos (5 minutes each) on Leadership with Michael Fullan. These video clips cover a range of new ideas from Michael Fullan’s recent work on ‘leadership for deep learning’.

The videos can be viewed on the MichaelFullan.ca YouTube Channel or The Learning Exchange.

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Google Blog: Créer sa Propre Finlande

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Il me fait plaisir de vous transmettre la version française de Find your own Finland, Créer sa propre Finlande. Le texte et le diagramme ont été révisés et son équipe et il peuvent être utilisés dans vos organisations.

Merci à Claude St-Cyr, Directeur de projet, Foundation Lucie et André Chagnon et Marc Denis pour la traduction. 

En collaboration avec Google, Michael a écrit un blog pour Google’s Keyword, leur destination centrale pour les dernières nouvelles mises à jour et des histoires à l’intérieur de Google.

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Role of the School Leader – November Learning Podcast

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This podcast was produced by Alan November, Founder of November Learning, in partnership with Cisco Education and covers select concepts of the role of the school leader in building cultures that support innovation.

Listen to Podcast

 January 2017

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Five District Case Studies: California’s Golden Opportunity

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We are pleased to publish the district case studies are published by Michael Fullan, and supported by the Stuart Foundation. California is committed to improving it’s education performance statewide and we believe there are enough forces aligned to make this result a distinct possibility. The actions and coordinated efforts we are taking are practical and realistic.

The districts are:

  1. Corona Norco Unified School District
  2. Fresno Unified School District
  3. Long Beach Unified School District
  4. Twin Rivers Unified School District
  5. Whittier Unified School District

Corona Norco Unified School District

We conducted four main case studies as part of our Stuart Foundation Grant to examine the concept of Professional Capital in action: Fresno Unified,

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