A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2024

Here is the synopsis: Not Just One Way Are you an educator stuck in the traditional teaching or leadership mold, yearning for a spark to reignite your passion? Personalize" provides the tools and strategies to create such a space, fostering creativity, critical thinking, and a genuine love for learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 17, 2013

Well, that all changed recently at the Leadership 3.0 They construct their own knowledge, solve problems, and employ critical thinking skills through many of the games they play. creativity educational leadership educational technology Minecraft Nicholas Sheninger Student engagement' Conference in Irvine, CA.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 7, 2015

The aspects of e-safety, critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and finding and evaluating information must all be addressed. I'll be speaking about this an other digital leadership issues at the 23rd Annual Model Schools Conference this month. However, teaching digital literacy has its challenges.

Critical Thinking 418

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 30, 2012

These skill sets include critical thinking/problem solving, media literacy, collaboration, creativity, technological proficiency, and global awareness. 21st Century Education Change educational leadership educational technology Opinion' Rest assured everything else will fall into place.

Education 383

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

These are assessed with rubrics used in every class, rubrics that focus on durable, transferable skills like collaboration, effective communication, and critical thinking. ” In MTC schools, this information is recorded on a Mastery Transcript. This video shows how these work: What About Content?

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2013

In collaboration with my staff and the support of District leadership, my efforts have laid the foundation for an innovative teaching and learning culture that focuses on preparing all students for success. Change educational leadership educational technology Innovation Opinion' That and being digitally resilient.

Leadership 292

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 18, 2019

In his book, Digital Leadership , Eric Sheninger talks about the critical competencies needed by learners for success in today’s world. There is also a picture dictionary to visually reinforce vocabulary acquisition. Now with the Immersive Reader integration, the possibilities to address these standards are open to all learners.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 26, 2012

A focus on standardization narrows the curriculum and creates a teaching culture where creativity, exploration, critical thinking are scarce or non-existent. Daniel Pink Drive education reform educational leadership Linchpin Seth Godin'

Education 306

Education Artifacts Cultures Leadership 306

Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

Fixing a Paragraph : To practice critical thinking and writing, I gave them a poorly written paragraph (also AI-generated) about the topic and gave them 10 minutes to improve it. These quick notes laid out the big ideas students would encounter in the lesson: Washingtons leadership style. hero, mentor, trickster).

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 21, 2017

Below are some key elements commonly associated with an entrepreneurial mindset: Initiative Risk-taking Creativity Flexibility Critical thinking Problem Solving Resilience Innovation The elements above can be directly applied to your role as an educator. Follow the hot topics in leadership, communication, and relationship building.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Two years ago I had the incredible opportunity to work with the entire leadership team of District 59 in Arlington Heights, Illinois for SEVEN days. They labeled it their ‘21st Century Leadership Academy.’ And we can build on all of that to start implementing new instructional and leadership paradigms in schools and classrooms.

Leadership 107

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The Rigor Relevance Framework assists in creating performance tasks that engage learners in critical thinking and problem solving while applying what they have learned in meaningful ways. The more we all push each other on the topic of efficacy, our collective goals we have for education, learning, and leadership can be achieved.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 26, 2013

This requires a shift in instructional techniques that focus on critical thinking, inquiry, problem-solving, authentic contexts, and technology. Design of authentic learning experiences to enhance critical thought, inquiry, problem-solving, and relevancy in the classroom.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

They do this by mapping courses and activities to institutional competencies: critical thinking, analytical thinking, communication, social awareness and responsibility, creativity and innovation, and leadership and collaboration. “We

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Civic Engagement EdTech Civics Leadership 106

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

This requires a shift in instructional techniques that focus on critical thinking, inquiry, problem-solving, authentic contexts, and technology. Design of authentic learning experiences to enhance critical thought, inquiry, problem-solving, and relevancy in the classroom.

Professional Development 224

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Pedagogy and Formation

JUNE 28, 2024

In this post I want to address what I see as the tension for people of faith between three well known concepts, 'Open-mindedness', 'Critical thinking' and 'Indoctrination'. b) Critical thinking Again the Oxford Dictionary meaning is "the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement".

Critical Thinking 52

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2017

What I believe is that the end goal of our work is to transform all facets of education to fundamentally improve teaching, learning, and leadership. The hard, but needed, work is taking a critical lens to our work before and after embracing a mindset shift. They are not limited in scope and can be broken up into numerous subsets.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. I'm a second-year doctoral student in educational leadership. Though she didnt initially see herself ever becoming a school librarian, Rhue has come to love the dynamism and variety of her job.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

Since the disruption of schooling during COVID, shes also spent time catching students up on critical thinking skills. Some groups were saying were teaching critical race theory, Messick said, explaining why the claim was baseless. I have two masters degrees, one in educational leadership and one from MAHG.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Critical Skills in the Age of AI Which skills is the natural next question. Power Skills, which include creativity, collaboration, resilience, leadership and critical thinking , make all other skills more effective. But we know that skills like leadership, creativity and decision-making never go out of fashion.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2019

You can’t get to deeper learning without shifting toward critical thinking, problem-solving, student agency, and authentic work. You can’t get to deeper learning without changing the types of concrete ‘look fors’ and ‘think abouts’ that you prioritize as a school leadership team.

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Digital Promise

JULY 21, 2017

Students must be problem solvers with deep critical thinking skills. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills refers to these four skills as the “ 4Cs ”: Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, and Critical Thinking. They must be able to look creatively at any situation to generate new solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

Hameed’s students are participants in various programs through Hello Future , a nonprofit organization that works with teen refugees to bridge the education gap by teaching digital and financial literacy, critical thinking and entrepreneurship. The students at the Arbat camp are Syrian refugees who fled that country’s civil war.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? And research shows that peer reviews build community among students and help them develop critical thinking and communication skills.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

Behind strong school-based leadership, the schools built sustainable systems in professional learning and IT logistics and have created innovative ways to leverage their iPads to increase student engagement, communication, problem-solving skills, and critical thinking skills.

Middle School 121

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

When Iowa Poll respondents opposed to Common Core standards were asked about their objections, some lamented the shift from traditional teaching methods such as rote memorization of facts and formulas to a focus on more critical thinking. Because we’ve learned nothing about teaching math in 50 years. Civil engineer Jack Burnham Jr.,

Leadership 97

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Digital Promise

MAY 7, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort. Many identify maker learning as a way to promote student agency through design thinking while promoting 21st century skills such as creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. Want to bring maker learning to your school?

Project-Based Learning 132

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2019

Critical Thinking. Do learning activities and assessments allow students to engage in deep critical thinking and analysis? Podcast – How to take our leadership and teaching to new levels. Yes / No / Somewhat. Yes / No / Somewhat. Problem Solving. 2 books for 2 different needs.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It lends itself to natural conversations around critical thinking and curiosity. Some of the students were quick to step into leadership roles and tell their classmates, “Okay, guys, this is how you join a group.” It lends itself to natural conversations around critical thinking and curiosity.

EdTech 130

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2020

In addition to field-specific knowledge in, for example, computer science or history, sound liberal arts education delivers the development of transferable skills, such as “critical thinking.” It aims to cultivate attributes — empathy is one — associated with leadership and civic responsibility.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its a bit complicated, which means it also offers great opportunities to practice critical thinking and social studies skills. The speech is the presidents chance to shine in their leadership role by reporting on how they feel the nation is doing and what they want to achieve in the new year.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 24, 2023

I am building upon the work in my previous book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , in which my colleagues and I interviewed principals of 30 innovative schools around the world and then followed up those interviews with site visits, observations, on-site photographs and videos, and additional conversations with students and teachers.

Middle School 86

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on K-12 school technology leadership issues. After 14 years as an Educational Leadership professor, Dr. McLeod currently serves as the Director of Innovation for Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency in Iowa. 10 minutes – We will take a break! Scott McLeod, J.D.,

K-12 97

K-12 Leadership Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan 97

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

In Anaheim Union, our students now demonstrate progress through learning and competencies that show growth in communication, critical thinking, collaboration and compassion. Within our schools, we believe in strengthening teacher leadership development. These are goals that appeal to all of our parents, no matter their politics.

Education 125

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The survey found that instead of moving bright kids ahead to more advanced topics, gifted classrooms are preoccupied with activities to develop critical thinking and creativity, such as holding debates and brainstorming. Advanced reading and writing instruction ranked 19th.

Critical Thinking 112

Critical Thinking Elementary School Research Leadership 112

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

We discussed the idea that the global innovation economy is pushing the skill sets of creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving much deeper into the labor pool than ever before. Combine this lack of leadership and organizational support with compulsory topics of study (rock identification!)

Leadership 0

Leadership Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Cultures 0

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

’ The authors of Powerful Teaching do say that “these strategies apply for … critical thinking” (p. Some may wonder if it is even possible to engage in learning science and competency-based educational practices for so-called ‘ deeper learning.’

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