Working At The Edge

Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation

Podcasts and A PD Story

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 With this post, I wanted to share some content posted online recently. My colleague, Lynn Fuini-Hetten, and I published three new podcasts at TLTalkRadio and a blog post on Edutopia. Season 2: Episode 4 – Leadership: The Fuel That Ignites Transformation in Teaching and Learning Last February, we traveled to an Apple What’s Next: Implementing Research […]

3 Key Components of Digital Transformation – Pt. 1: Lead it

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This coming week I’ll have the opportunity to share the story of our digital transformation in the Salisbury Township School District with an audience of school leaders just beginning their journey. While our work has been documented in detail on TL2020.org (and previously TL2014.org) and in our published iBook, I want to prepare a simple […]

4 Ways to Move Compliance to the Side of Your Plate

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I’m enjoying reading the latest book from Lyle Kirtman and Michael Fullan: Leadership: Key Competencies for Whole-System Change. There are many ideas in this book that will challenge the thinking of most readers. Take for instance the title of Chapter 4 — Moving Compliance to the Side of Your Plate. Too many of us leaders […]

What are you not teaching?

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As we work to reimagine our classrooms, I found this short video full of interesting questions from Reid Wilson: What won’t we be teaching 10, 20, 30 years from now?” What don’t our students need to know to become successful global citizens? What’s now dead in education? What do we take out? What gets cut? […]

Transform, not reform – A transformational vision for education in the US

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This past September, the non-profit Convergence released A transformational vision for education in the US, the outcome of Education Reimagined, an initiative of Convergence dedicated to the realization of learner-centered education in the US.  Founded in 2009, Convergence has an interesting mission: to convene people with conflicting views to identify solutions for action around national […]

4 steps to deeper conversation

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Last month I shared a post on the lack of deep conversation, primarily on social media – mindlessly retweeting content and reading blog posts without connecting to the writer or ideas. At the time, I shared the hunch that a lot of surface level conversation is driven by a lack of focus, but I didn’t […]