Topic Video: Monitoring Progress
In today’s video, Michael Fullan discusses the importance of building monitoring into the learning experience while simultaneously being open to innovation, especially technology.
This is topic video 1 of 22.
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!
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/
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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NSW – Fullan article in The Age
NSW educators wanting to improve public school system could learn from Ontario
In Australia, relentless debates over education, arguments over curriculum and disputes about funding models could easily leave observers convinced the sky isn’t far off falling down.
Some of the bad news is true. But the good news is that, with the right strategies in place and some persistence, education systems can not only stave off doom but can, in fact, make substantial progress.
Ontario,
New Pedagogies for Deep Learning – Melbourne Session, October 29, 2014
New Pedagogies for Deep Learning – a Global Partnership
How can we mobilise and foster new pedagogies for deep learning in schools and leverage the power of digital learning?
Join MC Tony Mackay and Michael Fullan to discuss New Pedagogies for Deep Learning; a global partnership focused on implementing deep learning goals across whole education systems to enable new pedagogies accelerated by technology.
New Pedagogies for Deep Learning engages students across the globe to develop skills to be lifelong learners;
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Big-City School Reforms: Lessons from New York, Toronto, and London
Big cities have struggled to improve public school systems. This book shows why—and offers a framework for achieving future success. Fullan and Boyle, internationally renowned thinkers on school change, demonstrate that while the educational challenges of big cities may be overwhelming, they are not insurmountable. They draw on ten years’ of research to identify six essential “push” and “pull” actions that enable big school systems to improve student achievement.
Big-City School Reforms offers invaluable advice to those leading the next phase of school reform in cities around the world.
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Facilitator’s Guide to The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact
For those who have a copy of The Principal: Three Keys to Maximizing Impact, we would like to offer you a copy of the Facilitator’s Guide produced by Joanne Quinn and Eleanor Adam. There is no fee for this package of material that includes the Facilitator’s Guide, Powerpoint presentations for each of the chapters, and PDFs for Action Items and Discussion Topics for each chapter.
This professional development training kit can be downloaded from www.wiley.com/go/theprincipal
To download Facilitator’s Guide click here.
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