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Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation

Learner-centered leaders approach work with learners using an asset model [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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This post is part of a series connected to the podcast Shift Your Paradigm: from school-centered to learner-centered. Lynn and I will be sharing our learning and thinking along the way and cross-posting to the Shift Your Paradigm site. In Episode 36, we visited with the Founder/Executive Director and a learner from an innovative learning […]

Five questions for learner-centered education

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It’s been a few weeks of immersion in thinking and conversation around learner-centered education and the corresponding paradigm shift having recently attended Pioneer Lab Training and Big Picture Learning’s Big Bang Conference. Here are some of the questions that have surfaced for me: We talk about telling our stories, but how are we engaging learners […]

Learner-centered leaders help others uncover who they are as learners [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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This post is part of a series connected to the podcast Shift Your Paradigm: from school-centered to learner-centered. Lynn and I will be sharing our learning and thinking along the way and cross-posting to the Shift Your Paradigm site. In Episode 35, we return to Cajon Valley Union School District to hear more about the […]

Learner-centered leaders approach barriers to transformation through a design process [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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This post is part of a series connected to the podcast Shift Your Paradigm: from school-centered to learner-centered. Lynn and I will be sharing our learning and thinking along the way and cross-posting to the Shift Your Paradigm site. In Episode 34, we spoke with leaders from Norris Academy in Wisconsin. Norris is a small public […]

On detecting bullshit…

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These words from a Farnum Street interview with Robert Greene resonated with me. FS: One of the things you said was, talking to people who think that they know something, I mean, one of the problems that I see that traverses personal, professional lives is separating the people who know what they’re talking about from […]

Learner-centered leaders strategically approach building the capacity for shift with teachers and other leaders [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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This post is part of a series connected to the podcast Shift Your Paradigm: from school-centered to learner-centered. Lynn and I will be sharing our learning and thinking along the way and cross-posting to the Shift Your Paradigm site. In Episode 33 we learned about the transformation in Elmbrook Schools, a public school district located […]

Learner-centered leaders help others see the possibilities [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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This post is part of a series connected to the podcast Shift Your Paradigm: from school-centered to learner-centered. Lynn and I will be sharing our learning and thinking along the way and cross-posting to the Shift Your Paradigm site. Episode 32 takes us to the Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center in CO and […]

Learner-centered leaders have an internal compass: They love the humans they are responsible for! [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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This post is part of a series connected to the podcast Shift Your Paradigm: from school-centered to learner-centered. Lynn and I will be sharing our learning and thinking along the way and cross-posting to the Shift Your Paradigm site. In Episode 31, we visited Innovations High School, the only Big Picture Learning School in Nevada, through […]

Learner-centered leaders believe school transformation is multi-generational work [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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This post is part of a series connected to the podcast Shift Your Paradigm: from school-centered to learner-centered. Lynn and I will be sharing our learning and thinking along the way and cross-posting to the Shift Your Paradigm site. In Episode 30, we were joined by Helen Beattie and Clara Lew Smith from UP for Learning, […]