Interviews

Don’t be ‘selfish’, former Blair adviser warns academies

International expert urges academies not to be overly competitive, telling them: ‘Don’t get good at a bad game’

By John Roberts
15 June 2018

A former adviser to Tony Blair has warned academies that competing for pupils, instead of collaborating with other schools, is “selfish” and “self-defeating”.

International education expert Michael Fullan used a conference speech today to warn academies: “Don’t get good at a bad game.”

Speaking at the Inspiring Leadership Conference in Birmingham,

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In this Education Week Teacher interview, Larry Ferlazzo probes Michael Fullan, Joanne Quinn and Joanne McEachen, authors of ‘Deep Learning: Engage the World Change the World‘, to find out what deep learning really means and why it is so important for student success.

By Larry Ferlazzo on January 23, 2018 7:44 PM

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Podcast: Teacher Union Reform Network of AFT & NEA Locals & Partners (TURN)
Voices from the Field (40 minutes)

In this episode, Michael Fullan is interviewed by Jo Anderson, co-executive director of the Consortium for Educational Change. Michael discusses the right drivers and the wrong drivers in education and how using the right drivers like collaboration and capacity building are the keys to student success. He discusses the coherence framework from his book, Coherence that he coauthored with Joanne Quinn,

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To listen to an exclusive 30-minute podcast on ‘Deep Learning: Engage the World Change the World’ with Robert Martellacci, President & Publisher, MindShare Learning”, please click here.

MindShare Learning is Canada’s leading EdTech strategy consulting, news, and professional learning events company. Its hallmark is providing strategic solutions to learning and technology providers in the K-12, higher ed and lifelong learning space, to support student success.

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Michael Fullan’s interview with John Graham, Editor, has been published in the latest edition of the American Education Union’s journal Professional Voice. 

The online version of the interview is available at https://www.aeuvic.asn.au/michael-fullan-public-school-improvement-and-role-school-leadership-process

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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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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.

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 January 2017

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In collaboration with Google, Michael has written a blog for Google’s Keyword, their central destination for the latest news updates and stories from inside Google.

Google has commissioned research on the Finnish teaching profession by Kantar Public, an independent social research agency, and invited Michael to submit this piece.

If you would like to read it, please click here.

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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.”

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