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Three School Improvement Mistakes (and how to avoid them).pdf. School Leaders: Are You the Role Model for Professional Learning? Motivation and mindset anchoring. When I was at University, a running joke was how little we’d all worked on our papers, how late and last minute we’d left them, and how little effort we’d put into them. A couple of things jolted me out of this mindset. International students I knew, from China, India, Europe, Africa and South America, didn’t seem to share English students’ view that slack effort was funny and clever. And my Dad told me that what actually happened at his University was that people boasted publicly about not working, but then worked feverishly in private. The joke was on us. Beliefs matter; mindset matters; work ethic matters. So a vital ingredient in the motivation mix is the belief kids bring to lessons in their minds. The promise of the growth mindset is that kids no longer see tough, challenging work as long or boring: they ‘not only seek challenge, they thrive on it’…‘Students with the growth mindset completely took charge of their learning and motivation.’

Now, which did you choose? Senior leaders. What Makes a Leader? It was Daniel Goleman who first brought the term “emotional intelligence” to a wide audience with his 1995 book of that name, and it was Goleman who first applied the concept to business with his 1998 HBR article, reprinted here. In his research at nearly 200 large, global companies, Goleman found that while the qualities traditionally associated with leadership—such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision—are required for success, they are insufficient.

Truly effective leaders are also distinguished by a high degree of emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill. These qualities may sound “soft” and unbusinesslike, but Goleman found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable business results. Every businessperson knows a story about a highly intelligent, highly skilled executive who was promoted into a leadership position only to fail at the job.

Evaluating Emotional Intelligence. 9 Defining Ways Educators Can Tug Education Back in the Right Direction. As I watched my field day team win one of the longest bouts of tug-of-war I’ve ever seen, I was reminded how forces combine to tug education in the wrong direction. It might be as subtle as a phrase or a bad habit permeating our profession. This morning as I sat down to blog, opinions and rants poured from my heart onto the page about the forces tugging us in the wrong direction.

We can pull back – add your voice but even better – add your actions. Education is a noble calling – lets do things worthy of that calling. 9 Defining Ways Educators Can Tug Education Back in the Right Direction 1. Learn from intriguing people. Teachers must be a living model of lifelong learning. Teaching is an incredible profession. 2. Our PD should be an engaging use of the pedagogies we are espousing in the classroom instead of lecture-only hypocrisy.

Teachers do as you do, not as you say. 3. First, include teachers in your panels and conferences! Second, add diversity! 4. Educators who care, share. 5. 6. 5 Ways To Influence Change. “At the end of the day, what qualifies people to be called ‘leaders’ is their capacity to influence others to change their behavior in order to achieve important results.” Joseph Grenny In a time where the only constant in education is change, people involved with education need to become “change agents” more now than ever. You can understand pedagogy inside out, but if you are unable to define “why” someone should do something different in their practice, all of that knowledge can be ultimately wasted. People will take a “known good” over an “unknown better” in most cases; your role is to help make the unknown visible and show why it is better for kids. Look at the debate over “new math” right now.

Many people, including educators, are pushing back over the new curriculum based on the idea that math was taught in a much better way when we were kids. Simply explaining the process and the way we teach and learn math is not enough. So how does this happen? Women Need To Brag More At Work. Ah, the see-saw advice that women face when it comes to professional success. Can we have it all? Should we lean in? Would that require bragging more? Yes, research has shown that self-promotion is a significant component to closing the gap between men's and women’s achievements in the workplace. But thanks to societal gender norms, women are often told to be modest, demure, and polite. What’s a self-respecting but socially conditioned gal to do? Subverting these proscribed gender norms can make women uncomfortable. The researchers recruited female freshmen at the university to write essays about their own accomplishments or about someone else’s.

"The key here is that when women had an alternative explanation for why they might be feeling uncomfortable--the supposed noise generator--the awkwardness they felt from violating the modesty norm by writing about themselves was diverted, and they did just fine," Smith said in a statement. How that might work in the office is another story. Day 7: A Future Space for Teachers to Share. What did you learn today? Submitted by: Louise Robitaille On March 27th 2014, Pete Douglas and I were invited by the TLLP (Teacher Learning and Leardership Program) team to attend a focus group discussion with TVO. We were happy to attend the meeting but curious to learn what it was all about.

At the meeting, we learned that TVO, the Ministry of Education and OTF (Ontario Teacher Federation) are working together on a project that I think will be beneficial to all teachers across the province. The goal is to develop an online platform for developing knowledge exchange for teachers in Ontario. How exciting is that! TVO shared that their platform will serve 3 functions: Explore – educators will have access to materials that support teaching and learning, teacher blogs, Ministry resources and more.Share – an interactive space for teachers to connect and discuss best practice.Create – this space will investigate how new technology can be used in classrooms. About Louise Robitaille. Www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/alive_in_the_swamp.pdf.

Improvement, Innovation and Inclusion; the future of educational change in Ontario and elsewhere. The Future of Schooling: Are Students Being Prepared to “Dance with Robots”? | Educhatter's Blog. February 21, 2014 by Paul W. Bennett One of the most stimulating recent ‘think pieces,’ Houman Harouni’s “What should a School be? ‘ has set the cat among the pigeons in the North American education world. Originally published in The American Reader (Vol. 8, 2013), the Harvard researcher’s article essentially challenges educationists to think more broadly and seek fresh insights from outside their intellectual cocoons.

While many education observers claim that “the school system is broken,” few actually stop to do what is known as a “deeper dive.” In our post-modern era of globalization and connectivity, fewer still pause to ask whether the purpose of education should be completely subsumed by“dancing with robots.” Education does matter but that is difficult to discern surveying the public debate over the current state and future of schooling. What is the purpose of schooling? Today’s educationists thrive on their own isolationism. Progressivism has spawned a new 21st century mutation. Re-imagining school | Playlist. 10 Ways to Build Teacher Leaders.

“You don’t need to be in a leadership position, to be a leader.” By Jill Thompson We need teacher leaders! Why? Teacher leaders are the ones that make change happen. They are the ones that understand the true problems happening in their classroom and school. They are the ones that improve learning and teaching practices with the goal of doing what is best for students which is increasing student learning and achievement. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. There are a lot of other ways we can build teacher leaders within our schools. Other Resources: Building Teacher Leadership Capacity through Educational Leadership Programs Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success: A Collaborative Approach for Coaches and School Leaders Becoming a Teacher Leader CTQ: Center for Teaching Quality Like this: Like Loading...

Www.otffeo.on.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/09/tllp_full_report-.pdf. Why Do We Keep Creative People Out of Leadership Roles? 265Share Synopsis We love stories of creative leaders; we just don’t want to be led by them. We admire stories of creative leaders. We like to hear tales of CEOs and political leaders bringing about transformation with fresh ideas and innovative thinking. The evidence, gathered and analyzed by psychologists Jennifer Mueller, Jack Goncalo, and Dishan Kamdar was drawn from 300 employees of an unidentified company and published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. While the study was confined to one organization, you don’t have to look too far to see similar results in nearly all organizations. This study’s results complement another study led by Mueller in which participants explicitly stated they desired and valued creative ideas, but implicitly rejected phrases associated with creativity when exposed to uncertain situations.

Perhaps the explanation for both studies is our preference for order and the status quo. Learning, networks, knowledge, technology, community. TEDxNYED - George Siemens - 03/06/10. Uplifting your performance, your people and yourself: Andy Hargreaves at TEDxUnisinos 2013. The 5 Best Free Collaboration Tools for Teachers. The Secret to Leadership Finding You. You aren’t a leader if you don’t have followers. “He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.” John Maxwell, “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership“ A young leader I coached received a leadership award. I asked him, “Why did you receive this award?” He said, “I have no idea.” I said, ”Go find the reason.” Successful leaders understand why others see them as leaders. 10 Questions that help leadership find you: What compelling benefit comes to those who follow you? Bonus: How are you igniting passion in others?

The Secret: Aspire to become worthy of being followed. Lousy leaders focus on position, prominence, power, and authority and neglect becoming attractive individuals. Great leadership begins with understanding and practicing great followership. “Seeking Leadership roles never produced anything for me. Jimmy Collins, “Creative Followership“ Guarantee: Leadership finds those who understand and practice followership. What makes a leader worthy of being followed? Like this: Www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/policyfunding/leadership/summer2010. 12 Words You Need to Delete From Your Resume Right Now. Wise Bread Picks According to a recent study, recruiters spend an average of 6.2 seconds looking at an individual resume.

Working with that kind of attention span and operating with limited space, resume writers need to make every word count. With this in mind, it might be time to a take a critical look at your resume or CV (or even your LinkedIn profile) and root out terms that aren't doing you any favors. And you can start with these 12 vague, cliche, inappropriate, or downright meaningless words. (See also: Get Your Resume Past the Resume Filter) Your resume is a chance to showcase how your skills, experience, and knowledge have produced quantitative results for previous employers. "Microsoft Office" Amber Carucci of PR Daily says that most employers assume that candidates have basic computer skills, so applicants shouldn't take up valuable resume real estate to point out the obvious. "Love" "Impactful" Sure, impactful is a word, but it's not necessarily a good one.

"Experienced" Top 10 Differences Between Managers and Leaders. Www.michaelfullan.ca/media/13396067650.pdf. Literacy 2.0:Orchestrating the Media Collage. At the epicenter of the evolving nature of literacy is digital literacy, the term du jour used to describe the skills, expectations, and perspectives involved in living in a technological society. How has digital literacy evolved in the 25 years since digital tools began appearing in classrooms? And how can we make it more responsive to our present needs? Writing What You Read Modern literacy has always meant being able to both read and write narrative in the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. Just being able to read is not sufficient. For centuries, this has meant being able to consume and produce words through reading and writing and, to a lesser extent, listening and speaking. But the world of digital expression has changed all of this in three respects: New media demand new literacies.

However, the lag time between being able to read media and being able to write in those media is shrinking quickly for the non-elite. Eight Guidelines for Teachers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter. No two situations are ever exactly the same, but as a general guide, these are the types of questions that could come up in a typical interview. 1. Why don’t you tell me about yourself? This question, often the interview opener, has a crucial objective: to see how you handle yourself in unstructured situations. The recruiter wants to see how articulate you are, how confident you are, and generally what type of impression you would make on the people with whom you come into contact on the job. Most candidates find this question a difficult one to answer. There are many ways to respond to this question correctly and just one wrong way: by asking, "What do you want to know?

" The right response is twofold: focus on what interests the interviewer, and highlight your most important accomplishments. Focus on what interests the interviewer Do not dwell on your personal history—that is not why you are there. Highlight Important Accomplishments Stories are powerful and are what people remember most. 2. How To Disrupt Yourself: The High Cost And Benefits Of Hiring Misfits.

No two words can paint a bigger target on your back in corporate America than “change agent.” In my last role (as you guessed it, a change agent) this was how someone confronted me in the hallway after a meeting during my first week on the job: “What do you even think you’re doing here? I’ve been at this longer than you’ve been out of diapers.” In many ways, that summed up the next two-plus years of my work life at a big ad agency. I was hired to build a new service offering (and team) for the business at large which could ultimately nudge us out of our comfort zone and into being a modern player.

In the face of resistance, I was determined to strive for epic success (or try so fervently as to achieve epic failure). Surprisingly, this turned out to be the easy part. Advertising as a profession is over 200 years old. In its rigidity, however, advertising is no different from a host of other professions and sectors facing upheaval. Eventually, I left my change agent job. How Not to Be The Coworker Everyone Hates. [Infographic] Traditional Leader vs. Collaborative Leader. Cultivating Charisma: How Personal Magnetism Can Help (Or Hurt) You At Work. As a socially inept teenager, Olivia Fox Cabane realized that she had two choices.

“Either confine myself to a desert island, or learn how to make this human thing work,” she says. Cabane opted for the latter. Good thing. By age 24, the French-born author of The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, published on March 29, had addressed the United Nations. The following year she was lecturing at Harvard and MIT, a precursor to her career as an executive coach and keynote speaker. FAST COMPANY: So what is the myth of charisma and where did it come from? OLIVIA FOX CABANE: It came from the Greeks, who coined the word as “gift of grace.” So where did we get the idea that one needs to be outgoing and gregarious to be charismatic? A few things. For example? What about the three other styles of charisma? There’s “authority charisma,” which is the most powerful form of charisma. And Steve Jobs? Exactly. And this can all be backed up by science? Indeed. No. How To Get A Job After You've Been Rejected.

What Makes an Authentic Leader? Building Community, Building Success. The Job Interview Research You Didn't Know You Needed To Do. The Positive Classroom:Joy in School. Teacher Agency: Educators Moving from a Fixed to a Growth Mindset. Two Case Studies: How Connected Educators Can Transform Schools. 3 Ideas To Help Others Embrace Change. 2014-15 TLLP Launch - Mentoring Moments. Api.ning.com/files/wFzHvoj3NXlqCBx7DicQLGLJOrxKdvoy4yN7aM34Gym-17K6W1mYuRe4DrhZezwE6zvujXqYZyqgffmH-2QqZHRDibHoVlKk/EN201415TLLPTimeline.pdf. Api.ning.com/files/wFzHvoj3NXl8huGsvNnGvQ0-tFZAmPwhFeMrV42kejHxEdcNbuyUETKMH*XIemXBsulgXT4*-7Vb2zd9cDDDLTuaBG5ZGeWR/FrequentlyAskedQuestions201415.pdf. Envisioning Effective Professional Learning | Learning Zone. Another Brick in the Wall. Beyond Testing. How do we deal with unwilling corporate learners? TLLP. Guideline.

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