2012 School Administrators of Iowa
This page contains resources from my 2012 work with the School Administrators of 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.
March 29, 2012
BACKCHANNEL: TodaysMeet and/or #sai29march on Twitter (@mcleod) [see the New agenda for today! (also, bookmark this URL!)
2. 10-minute pre-assessment (see results; see also Will Richardson’s “Bold” schools)
3. Genius video
4. Gallery walk - Student agency and voice
BREAK [Knewton, Knewton demo, and more Knewton videos; Rocketship Education, overview, NBC video, and Rocketeers in Action (9:00); School of One and New Classrooms; Khan Academy; Grockit
6. Parallel systems of educational reform - Knewton investors, Rocketship Education board and partners, New Classrooms board, New Schools Venture Fund and Seed Fund, Khan Academy team and investment/stats, Boom time for education startups, Crunchbase, Kirsten Winkler, Audrey Watters
7. Implications
LUNCH [Chris Lehmann video (unedited)
9. Creating the new system – defining, operationalizing, thinking deeper (via the CCSSO framework) [take notes in BREAK [student agency and voice example (see also BLANK Effort-Impact Quadrant)
11. Overcoming barriers/challenges/resistance and building a critical mass of buy-in – student agency and voice example (groups 1-8, groups 9-16) (see also BLANK 1-8 and BLANK 9-16)
12. PBL and competency-based education
13. CASTLE’s new School Tech Leadership courses and programs
14. 3rd annual Iowa 1:1 Institute (hope to see you there!)
15. End-of-day evaluation (see results)
March 30, 2012
BACKCHANNEL: TodaysMeet and/or #sai30march on Twitter (@mcleod) [see the New agenda for today! (also, bookmark this URL!)
2. 10-minute pre-assessment (see results; see also Will Richardson’s “Bold” schools)
3. Genius video
4. Gallery walk - Student agency and voice
BREAK [Knewton, Knewton demo, and more Knewton videos; Rocketship Education, overview, NBC video, and Rocketeers in Action (9:00); School of One and New Classrooms; Khan Academy; Grockit
6. Parallel systems of educational reform – Knewton investors, Rocketship Education board and partners, New Classrooms board, New Schools Venture Fund and Seed Fund, Khan Academy team and investment/stats, Boom time for education startups, Crunchbase, Kirsten Winkler, Audrey Watters
7. Implications
LUNCH [Chris Lehmann video (unedited)
9. Creating the new system – defining, operationalizing, thinking deeper (via the CCSSO framework) [take notes in Twitter!]
BREAK [student agency and voice example (see also BLANK Effort-Impact Quadrant)
11. Overcoming barriers/challenges/resistance and building a critical mass of buy-in – student agency and voice example (groups 1–8, groups 9–16) (see also BLANK 1–8 and BLANK 9–16)
12. PBL and competency-based education
13. CASTLE’s new School Tech Leadership courses and programs
14. 3rd annual Iowa 1:1 Institute (hope to see you there!)
15. End-of-day evaluation (see results)
Miscellaneous resources
Leadership resources
- Scott’s landing page for parents and educators [USE THIS WITH EDUCATORS, BOARDS, AND PARENTS]
- 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)
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
- Technology, coaching, and community
- Educational technology bill of rights for students
- iOS education apps reviews and web sites
- School connection and collaboration resources
Problem– / Inquiry– / Challenge-based learning resources
- Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
- Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
- 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)
- Independent Curriculum Group
- Band of Educators
- CASTLE’s list of exemplary 21st century schools
Examples of critical thinking prompts (have students make these!)
- Writing – Photo prompts,
- Science – Discrepant events,
- Math – What can you do with this?
- Math – 101questions
Standards, frameworks, and reports you should know about
- NCTE 21st century literacy standards
- ISTE essential conditions (see also rubric)
- National Educational Technology Standards (NETS): Administrators, Teachers, and Students
- NAIS Guide for Becoming a School of the Future: PDF or HTML interactive
- See also Kevin Kelly’s 6 Words for the Modern Internet
- See also Scott’s The Future of Learning
RSS resources (build your internal capacity as learners)
- Kathy’s basket
- Google Reader
- RSS Guide for Educators [a work in progress!]
- CASTLE blogs
- Great blogs for busy administrators
- A huge list of school leadership blogs (and Twitter IDs)
- Subject-specific blogs (see also Scott’s Delicious tags)
Thinking / group facilitation tools
- SCAMPER
- Book: The innovator’s toolkit
- Book: Gamestorming
- Book: Thinkertoys
Presentation resources
CASTLE resources
- Dangerously Irrelevant (Scott)
- Mind Dump (Scott)
- Education Recoded (CASTLE directors)
- CASTLE
- Video: Iowa, Did You Know?
- Recommended reading (including Scott’s new book!)
- Recommended viewing
- Other resources