2012 Zurich International School
This page contains resources from my work with the Zurich International School in Zurich, Switzerland. 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 16, 2012
ZIS Baden
- 5th grade
- 6th to 8th grade [coming soon after index cards are typed up!]
- Book: Because digital writing matters
ThinkTank
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
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
Standards 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
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
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
