Posts Tagged professional development
Instructional Core
Posted by Jon P. Zurfluh in Leadership, Teaching/Learning on June 26, 2010
Richard Elmore, in this video clip and with the associated graphic, defines the best measure of how we should judge innovation and change in an organization. The data that we collect must come from… Continue reading
New Horizons 2010
Posted by Jon P. Zurfluh in Teaching/Learning, Technology on May 2, 2010
Under a grant from HP, the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) has released the latest New Horizon Report for K-12 education. Not surprisingly, the two critical trends to… Continue reading | 1 Comment
Student learning and the new era of professional development…
Posted by Jon P. Zurfluh in Leadership, Teaching/Learning on October 12, 2009
I’ve been impressed with my re-introduction to educational reform in Washington through my Superintendent Leadership Seminar (first in a year long series). The concept here is personalizing student learning and this is far beyond earlier… Continue reading
Early Learning – Fighting Fade Out
Posted by Jon P. Zurfluh in Leadership, Teaching/Learning on October 2, 2009
One of the things on every educational leaders “to-do” list should be addressing early learning. Similar to what Jeffrey Canada has taught us in the Harlem projects (see previous post), this project in South… Continue reading
Quick idea…
Posted by Jon P. Zurfluh in Farside, Leadership on September 4, 2009
Another version of the same old mantra –
If I know something, I can repeat it.
If I understand something, I can discuss it.
If I truly grasp something, I can create on my… Continue reading
Students reflecting on learning…
Posted by Jon P. Zurfluh in Leadership, Teaching/Learning, Technology on September 1, 2009
This is a piece from Dr. Marilyn Simpson’s work on learning targets and students articulating their learning.
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Learning Targets from a leadership perspective…
Posted by Jon P. Zurfluh in Leadership, Teaching/Learning on August 23, 2009
Learning targets for students and what leaders look for in classrooms:
Consistent with our understanding of building to higher levels of meaningful processing, there is a connection that is developed between criteria and resources… Continue reading
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