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Pillars of Digital Leadership Series - Branding

A Principal's Reflections

This post is the third in a series that will outline the foundational elements of my new book, Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times. It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. Brand-Ed branding Digital Leadership PIllars of Digital Leadership Social Media Trish Rubin'

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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Leaders who have deeper and more lasting impact provide more comprehensive leadership than focusing just on higher standards. Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. Michael Fullan, 2002, p.

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Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report Before 2014, state vocational rehabilitation agencies primarily worked with adults. For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective. It’s just dysfunctional.

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My feedback on the draft ISLLC standards

Dangerously Irrelevant

neither do most Educational Leadership profs, sadly). Does the section, “Using the Standards” provide you with sufficient direction about how the standards might be used to improve leadership at the state and local level? Standards are necessarily vague. There’s no meaning made there.

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Notes from the 2015 Iowa STEM Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

STEM in Iowa’s Re-Envisioned Economic Development Roadmap (2014 Battelle Report) , Kathryn Kunert & Carrie Rankin. See Iowa’s 2014 Battelle Report. STEM, Teacher Leadership, MTSS) together in better ways? Just 26 percent of ACT test-takers are prepared for college. STEM Education Award for Inspired Teaching video.

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OPINION: Higher Education needs to get comfortable with trial and error

The Hechinger Report

We’ve seen that clearly when it comes to student success — and, ultimately, social and economic mobility. That’s 73,000 additional graduates (above existing stretch goals) between 2014 and 2020, exceeding our 10-year goal of 68,000 in just six years. Lastly, leadership transitions are one of the biggest threats to student success.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. Rainville had to persuade 10 people from the sales leadership team before she could make the change.

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