LeaderTalk
The first group blog by school leaders for school leaders, LeaderTalk expressed the voice of the administrator in an era of school reform. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: school leadership and principals.
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Does your school organization reflect our new digital information landscape?
CASTLE has been doing a great deal of technology leadership training for the School Administrators of Iowa, some of the Iowa Area Education Agencies, some of the Minnesota Service Cooperatives, and other school organizations across the country. One of the discussion activities that we've been doing lately asks session participants to think in groups about the impacts that the Internet and other digital technologies have had on various sectors of our society:
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What Are You Thankful For?
It's the long Thanksgiving weekend, and so natually I decided to write about what I am thankful for. I'm not going to write about the usual things I am (and should be) thankful for, such as my children, my health and my good friends. I try hard to be grateful for these things all year long and not just on this holiday.
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A La Familia
The family is the cornerstone of most communities and civilization in general. It is what binds humans together and brings us peace and comfort. Family is there for us in times of happiness, hardship-- through good times and bad. Jane Howard writes, "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
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Excessive? I Guess Not
It was revealed on the evening news that there were multiple warning signs that the shooter at Fort Hood might have been mentally unstable and capable of violence. Last month I wrote about the precautionary lockdown we experienced due to a disgruntled, mentally unstable former employee. While that article focused more on the information disseminated to the public regarding the situation, this article addresses the actual events that led to the lockdown and the subsequent actions taken by the school district in response to the "warning signs."
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Making Time to Think
I heard the CEO of a Fortune 50 company speak about what the organization expects of senior leaders. One of the points he made was that once you move to an executive role, you are expected to be able to dig into deep issues that will affect the organization both in the short term and the long term. His next comment struck home: "You MUST make time in your calendar to think. That is what the organization expects of you. If you simply move from event to event, you are doing yourself and your organization a disservice."
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Thank Heavens for EASYBIB
(Cross posted at drjansblog.com)
Well, as I have mentioned before (yes, yes, I am proud), I get to teach (adjunct) for Kaplan University. Now it's been more than a couple of years since I got my doctorate from Vanderbilt (1986, to be specific-- I was a child). Now, I am teaching graduate students in education about the incredibly wonderful field of education.
Well, as I have mentioned before (yes, yes, I am proud), I get to teach (adjunct) for Kaplan University. Now it's been more than a couple of years since I got my doctorate from Vanderbilt (1986, to be specific-- I was a child). Now, I am teaching graduate students in education about the incredibly wonderful field of education.
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Leading With These Two Words: I Notice
A teacher's language is a powerful teaching tool. Our language can build children up or tear them down. It can model
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Formative Assessments and Supportive Classroom Climates
As we explore the design and application of formative assessments, it is important that we look at the culture of the classrooms in which they will be administered. Formative assessments will increase their effectiveness when they are administered within a supportive classroom culture. When individual students - and the class as a whole - understand the benefits of assessment, the value of those measurements is increased significantly.
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Universal Charter for Compassion: Unveiling on 11.12.09
Twenty months after expressing her wish, and with a lot of help from many friends, Karen Armstrong's TED Prize wish will come true. A wish that many people now embrace as their own. On November 12, 2009 the Charter for Compassion will be unveiled.
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Leadership and the Two-Handed Set Shot
I'm a tall person and from my earliest years was drafted into the world of basketball. I had a fair amount of success on the court ranging from high school and college teams to various tournaments and Men's leagues. I've coached at the HS level and when my children were born, I was privileged to coach their tyro teams and as they got older, their AAU clubs.
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10 questions about books, libraries, librarians, and schools
October apparently was ‘Library Month’ for me. I was the keynote speaker for the Minnesota MEMO conference and did a breakout session for the Iowa Library Association (ILA) conference. I also brought Dr. Mike Eisenberg to Iowa for three days to talk with school administrators about technology and information literacy. As a result, I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on books, reading, and the future of libraries and librarians…
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What's the function of that behavior?
I'm surrounded by behaviors that are not always appropriate. I work in an alternative school and with children who are mainly here because their behaviors got them booted out of their home school. I attend many meetings in the districts of our cooperative that are about students and their lack of progress with academics because their behaviors are getting in the way.
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Little House on the Digital Prairie
If you are not familiar with the show "Little House on the Prairie," it is about a family in Minnesota that is trying to make a life in the 1870's and 1880's. One particular setting on the show is the one-room schoolhouse where one teacher presented different course material to the students who ranged in age from kindergarten through grade twelve.