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Small Schools: The Edu-Reform Failure That Wasn’t – Education Week
Post highlight the need to plan for variance and to treat each school or district as a distinct ecosystem.
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policy churn draws us away from more-productive conversations about how to strengthen our schools. In one camp are those ready to seek out the next big thing—those who want to churn away. And in another are those committed to resisting simplistic, wholesale solutions—those who want to apply the brakes. We are left with a false choice between doing what won’t work and doing nothing at all.
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Our schools don’t need disrupters, armed with grand notions about transformation; they need facilitators capable of building capacity. Rather than deciding what works and taking it to scale, we need donors and policy leaders who are interested in helping to strengthen schools and districts, encouraging experimentation, and facilitating the kinds of small changes that add up to big ones.
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Innovation Force = Innovation Mass x Acceleration | Tim Kastelle
New blog post: #Innovation Force = Innovation Mass x Acceleration https://t.co/qG3x7MuOCF
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Technology (and Its Implementation in Schools) Is Widening the Opportunity Gap | EdSurge News
Opinion piece about the digital divide.
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What does research really say about iPads in the classroom? | eSchool News – Linkis.com
Need to go track down these sources. Might be fodder for a follow up post.
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Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning
White paper about teacher professional development and deeper learning. One of the authors includes Tom Vanderark from Gates Foundation.
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Making Professional Learning Count
White paper co-authored between Digital Promise and Grunwald Associates LLC about the value and impact of micro-credentials.
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Moving PD Forward using Micro-credentials
White paper co-authored by Getting Smart and Bloomboard (provider of online PD). Interesting references about systematizing PD to be based on competency-based micro credentials.
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Friar John & Friar Lawrence – YouTube
What if Friar Lawrence & Friar John communicated via @twitter? https://t.co/0sBRnkmmGd #ShakespeareSunday #TeachingShakespeare #sunchat
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Design Thinking For a Better You @gregkulowiec @brholland @curlyfrenchgirl #medfieldps #designthinking https://t.co/1ZUCs3agS5
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@gregkulowiec @bjfr @brholland try some of Prof. Anne Mangan’s research, including ‘A joker in the class’ https://t.co/jSrn5INWni