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The School Whisperer: February 2011
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Listening, understanding, and partnering for education change. Friday, February 18, 2011. Visionary Leadership, Focus on Success for All Students, and a Dash of Humility. Teachers collaborated to develop, implement and measure strategies to make every student successful. Now the district is no longer in school improvement and most of the schools are achieving at high levels. The results are magnificent. What did the teachers do? They identified minimum standards for students to achieve at every grade lev...
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The School Whisperer: The Craziness of Testing - Driving Educators to Crazy Behavior
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Listening, understanding, and partnering for education change. Thursday, July 7, 2011. The Craziness of Testing - Driving Educators to Crazy Behavior. The scale of the testing scandal in Atlanta. Nonetheless, this reveals systemic problems with our American education system. I agree with David Brooks. While leading Cisco's 21st Century Schools Initiative. Systemic change means just that - change the entire system of leading, learning, and measuring if you expect transformation! Powered by Blogger Widgets.
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The School Whisperer: October 2010
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Listening, understanding, and partnering for education change. Tuesday, October 19, 2010. Assessment Sanity, Scariness, and Proven Success. The State of Georgia is investigating potential tampering of state tests by teachers. The USDOE announced that two consortia and a total of 47 states. As I've said before in this blog, I believe, and research shows, that we do. Know what makes effective education - we just need to put the right people in decision-making spots and measure what matters. I know it's...
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Resources - Fenton Hughes Consulting
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Education Consulting for the 21st Century. Support for transforming learning and instruction. You are here: Home. For district leaders, American Association of School Administrators. Offers tons of resources. Follow policy news on Nicole Ellerson’s blog. One of the best sources of process management information for school leaders is at Jack Grayson’s APQC site. You can follow them on Twitter @APQCEducation. Another source of systems improvement information is Jim Shipley and Associates. 209 Mount Arter L...
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The School Whisperer: July 2011
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Listening, understanding, and partnering for education change. Thursday, July 7, 2011. The Craziness of Testing - Driving Educators to Crazy Behavior. The scale of the testing scandal in Atlanta. Nonetheless, this reveals systemic problems with our American education system. I agree with David Brooks. While leading Cisco's 21st Century Schools Initiative. Systemic change means just that - change the entire system of leading, learning, and measuring if you expect transformation! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The School Whisperer: April 2010
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Listening, understanding, and partnering for education change. Tuesday, April 27, 2010. The other day I saw the movie Alice in Wonderland and came upon a terrific line spoken by Alice about her father, an innovative capitalist: "Why, everyday I've thought of six impossible things before breakfast! Near the end of the movie Alice realizes that six things she thought were impossible had all happened! Governor Crist vetoes Florida's bill. Diane is being listened. To as she makes her way across the country a...
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The School Whisperer: Two Year Kindergarten Program Revived in California after 80 Years
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Listening, understanding, and partnering for education change. Wednesday, November 9, 2011. Two Year Kindergarten Program Revived in California after 80 Years. The California Legislature recently passed Senate Bill 1381 instating a kindergarten transition program. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Powered by Blogger Widgets. Subscribe to The School Whisperer by Email. Subscribe in a reader. Social Impact Bonds: The Titans of Finance as the . The paradox of the flawless record. Where Are My Readers?
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A Bold Plan to Transform the Nation’s Education System | Public Relation, Media Relation, Editorial, & Web Services- Starlight Communication
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PR & Media. A Bold Plan to Transform the Nation’s Education System. On: February 5 2013 • Categorized in: 1. News, Announcements, Events. 4 Author's Article Archives. Houston, TX Do American education leaders have the drive the eye of the tiger necessary to make difficult transformational changes? I think they do, but they don’t have a methodology to make the transformation, says Dr. Jack Grayson, founder and chairman of American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC) based in Houston. The vision to tran...
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PR & Media. Calling Houston’s Youth: Learn to Lead. On: May 13 2015 • Categorized in: 1. News, Announcements, Events. 2016 Leadership for Teens Summer Workshops. As the act of innovating has evolved, so too have the innovators. BuildMyIdea.org. Back by popular demand for the second year, Leadership for Teens. Is a one-day workshop for 12-18 year olds packed with interactive and reflective activities designed to inspire teens to take charge of their lives and make education, career and personal choices th...
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The School Whisperer: September 2010
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Listening, understanding, and partnering for education change. Thursday, September 16, 2010. The Rise of Video - Viral Education. Today I watched a great TED Talk about the rise of video for all communication by Chris Anderson. It can be done now, with technology that already exists. In fact, home schooling parents ARE doing this. This isn't the end of 'lessons' or teachers - printing didn't eliminate the powerful experience of listening to an expert speak about his or her passion - but video and videoco...
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