Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation
As teachers and leaders, we don’t often think of ourselves as “researchers.” After all, when we think of research, we think of academic outsiders studying borderline interesting topics and writing long, confusing reports about their discoveries. We … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
On this blog, we've previously looked at how an analysis of our district assessment and evaluation efforts resulted in identifying challenges we need to address to move our digital transformation work forward. One of our focus areas this year is to … [Continue reading]
Two weeks ago, we started to explore the key components behind a successful digital transformation. In Pt. 1, we focused on the foundation of every digital transformation – Lead it. Last week in Pt. 2 we emphasized professional learning as a key … [Continue reading]
Last week we started to explore the key components behind a successful digital transformation. In Pt. 1, we learned some ideas about the first key component - Lead it. In this week’s post we’ll focus on the second component - Support it. Support … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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. … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]