"Ultimately, your leadership in a culture of change will be judged effective or ineffective not by who you are as a leader but by what leadership you produce in others.Catalyst: Episode 9 Podcast on Change at Wicked Decent Learning Blog
~Michael Fullan, Leadership in a Culture of Change
Need to find timely information about what is going on in Maine in hunting, fishing and more? Tom Remington of Bethel has over the years developed a rich network of sites relating to this Maine perspective. It is an excellent example of what new technologies allow even small-town people in Maine to create in terms of outstanding online communities and resources. A good starting point for Tom's work is Maine Outdoors Today. Note the wonderful outdoor photography and down-to-earth articles by Greenwood's Milt Inman.
Today we will:"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire."Apathy in schools is often an unspoken subject during discussions of curriculum or analysis of AYP, but let's admit that it's very real. How do we go about engaging students whose favorite phrase is "This is dumb!"?
~W.B. Yeats
Wikispaces is an easy and convenient place to set up a digital learning space to complement face-to-face staff development. It's free and straightforward . . . . without layers of bureaucracy to work through when dealing with limited time and energy.Persistence is a simple process:
1. What's the next step?
2. What's in the way of taking that step?
3. Remove, disregard, or ignore the obstacle.
4. Take the step
5. Go to #1
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Highly Recommended:"Every educator is familiar with the African proverb that “it takes a village to raise a child.” It is a nice but inadequate sentiment for modern America.
I have visited African villages and seen their focus on children. In Kenya, the Masai greet each other with the question, “How are the children?” America would be better off if we could say that to each other with meaning. But we don’t and we can’t rely on the village to raise our children because we no longer have even a sense of village.
Educators must find a way to become village builders, and I think that starts with helping our children see that as their role. We have to build character in our children so they become their 'brother’s keepers.'" More . . .
How are the Children?
Character Resources
Process Resources
Citizenship Resources
The Maine Council for the Social Studies
Related:"Pink: Does this call into question the concept of the “school” as we typically think of it? In a world where information was scarce, schools operated as kind of a repository of that precious resource. But now information is abundant. A school doesn’t have to harvest and distribute this scarce resource. It has to serve some other kind of function.
Friedman: Right. When information is really abundant, when we can literally pluck it out of the air, you need people to sift it, sort it and connect it.
Pink: Sifters, sorters, connectors, “yes but-ers.” That’s a nice way to describe a teacher’s role today. Now let me ask you a question that’s tinged a little bit with politics. Neither one of us are educators. But we’ve both had the good fortune to talk to lots of teachers, principals and superintendents over the last year. I suspect that being a sifter, a sorter and a yes but-er in a world of No Child Left Behind is pretty difficult." More . . .
