Working At The Edge

Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation

Valuing Strategic Foresight in K12

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I love thinking about the future, particularly how it will impact how we learn. I love thinking up possible scenarios in the K12 space that might exist as a result of new technologies, and have previously written about how strategic foresight should be considered a new leadership competency. Because of this passion, I was drawn […]

Principles of Student-Centered Learning

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If you are interested in the learner-centered movement, be sure to take a look at the work from Education Evolving, an organization from Minnesota committed to drawing on three strategic levers to advance the work: thought leadership, policy advocacy and educator networks. In the area of thought leadership, they have a Publications section on their website. […]

Shift Your Paradigm: Putting Learner-Centered Lessons Into Practice (Part 4) [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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This article first appeared at Education Reimagined as a part of Voyager, a publication sharing the stories and ideas shaping the future of education. In the first three parts of our series exploring how learner-centered leaders lead differently from school-centered leaders, we shared the context of our leadership inquiry and why it caused us to […]

Shift Your Paradigm: What Does Learner-Centered Leadership Look Like? (Part 3) [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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This article first appeared at Education Reimagined as a part of Voyager, a publication sharing the stories and ideas shaping the future of education. In Part I and Part II of our series exploring how learner-centered leaders lead differently from school-centered ones, we shared the context of our leadership inquiry and why it led to […]

Shift Your Paradigm: What Does Learner-Centered Leadership Look Like? (Part 2) [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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This article first appeared at Education Reimagined as a part of Voyager, a publication sharing the stories and ideas shaping the future of education. In Part I of our series exploring how learner-centered leaders lead differently from school-centered ones, we shared the context of our leadership inquiry and why it led to the creation of […]

Shift Your Paradigm: What Does Learner-Centered Leadership Look Like? (Part 1) [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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This article first appeared at Education Reimagined as a part of Voyager, a publication sharing the stories and ideas shaping the future of education. Both of us have been in education our entire lives. From young learners to career educators, we are the education system. We grew up and worked in educational systems that fit […]

Learner-centered leaders know change permeates the whole system [#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 44 we spoke with Dr. Cory Steiner, superintendent in the Northern Cass School District […]

Learner-centered leaders place the agency in the hands of the learner and transform their learning environments [#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 43, we learned about an innovative learning environment – North Star Teens in Hadley, […]