This page contains resources from my work with the Grundy Center Community Schools in Iowa. These materials are made available under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution-share alike license, which means that you are both allowed and encouraged to use them! Please contact me if you have any other questions about these resources.

November 3, 2011

Administrators

• My landing page for parents and educators
• Implementation dip
• Diffusion of innovation
• Gartner’s hype cycle
• Bolman & Deal frameworks
• Resistance to change
• Agreement and trust
• Can schools change?
• Leadership Day (2007 – 2011)
• Change Week wrap-up
• IBM’s Change Toolkit
• Book: Influencer
• Book: The knowing-doing gap
• Book: Execution
• Book: The future of management (read my review)

Students

• Scott’s slides (pptx) [coming soon]
• Video: Generation We
• Video: Shots ‘R’ Us: Hoopcamp Edition
• Video: guitar
• Video: Fred
• Ashley Qualls, WhateverLife.com
• Dylan Gattey, Forest Park app
• Kickstarter
• FanFiction.net
• HuffPo High School
• Kiva
• TakingITGlobal
• GlobalSchoolNet
• Mabry Middle School Film Festival
• Khan Academy
• HowBigReally
• Minecraft
• Local elections: video 1, video 2
• Video: How web video powers global innovation
• Video: How to start a movement
• Online survey reports: Group A, Group B [coming soon]

Technology integration resources

• Technology and learning spectrum
• TPACK (see also handout)
• Technology integration matrix
• Learning activity types: wiki and mind map
• Web 2.0 that works
• Teacher needs in anticipation of the instructional use of technology

Problem– / Inquiry– / Challenge-based learning

• Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
• Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
• Instructional Practices Inventory
• Buck Institute for Education (videos; student testimony and teacher restructuring; technology and PBL)
• College and Work Readiness Assessment (example report)
• Whitfield Career Academy (example projects)
• Discovery and Unlimited (Christchurch, New Zealand)
• Big Picture Learning (podcasts and videos; student testimony and personalization)
• EdVisions (videos; traditional v. self-directed students)
• Envision Schools (PBL in action and success story)
• Expeditionary Learning (stories)
• New Tech Network (videos; solar oven)
• CASTLE’s list of exemplary 21st century schools
• Online student projects

Standards you should know about

• NCTE 21st century literacy standards
• ISTE essential conditions (see also rubric)
• National Educational Technology Standards (NETS): Administrators, Teachers, and Students

EVERY educator should be using a RSS reader

School board, parents, and community members

• My landing page for parents and educators
• Scott’s slides (pptx)
• Video: Iowa, Did You Know? (there’s also a facilitator’s guide)
• App: What was I scared of?
• App: The fantastic flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
• App: NYPL Biblion
• App: Waste Land
• App: Algebra Touch
• App: WordWit
• App: The Civil War Today
• App: iMuscle
• App: Our Choice
• Education Apps Review