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Getting Started with Data Teams Presentation – WASA Summer Conference 2009
Linked below are the documents from my presentation at the WASA/AWSP 2009 Summer Conference in Spokane, WA. Use the contact form if you have any questions or would like more information. Thanks to everyone who participated.
Data Team Cycle Process Reflection
PowerPoint Presentation – Getting Started with Data Teams
Tags: conferences, data teams, improvement, instruction, Instructional Leadership, presentation, Professional Development, teacher collaboration
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Improvement: Growth vs. Problem-Solving
April 19, 2010 - 11:40 am
Tags: growth, improvement, performance, problem, solving
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Growth is more or less continuous – as we refine our technique, we get better gradually over time. But growth isn’t the only type of improvement. If there is a problem, a specific barrier to higher performance, solving it will not be a gradual process. When the problem is solved – either through an insight [...]
Heroism Vs. Performance
March 24, 2010 - 7:36 am
Tags: improvement, performance, principal
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Why do we find the idea of principal performance hard to swallow? We like to think of the principal as a hero who does whatever it takes to ensure student learning. When we see heroes, we are drawn to them, and we tell ourselves “We need more heroes like this one!” We think heroes will [...]
The Principal As Visionary Journalist
March 23, 2010 - 3:26 pm
Tags: improvement, vision
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How do you get more of what you want in the repertoire of practice in your organization? As an instructional leader, one way to encourage practices that contribute to student learning is to recognize, call out, and celebrate them when you see them. When teachers know their colleagues are finding success with a new initiative, [...]
Moving the Bell Curve To the Right
March 19, 2010 - 4:54 am
Tags: improvement, performance
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In Better, Atul Gawande describes the unexciting but immensely powerful impact of improving the performance of doctors. Rather than focus on breakthroughs and new technologies, he says, many more lives can be saved by simply moving the bell curve to the right. It used to be assumed that differences among hospitals or doctors in a [...]
Introducing Atul Gawande, Educator
March 14, 2010 - 8:09 pm
Tags: gawande, healthcare, improvement, medicine, performance
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One of my favorite authors on improvement and performance today is Atul Gawande. His insights have profound implications for educational leaders, and he may be one of the most influential reformers to come along in a long time. But you won’t find him at Teachers College or ASCD. Atul Gawande is a surgeon. In Better, [...]
Physics Envy: Why “Best Practices” Don’t Scale Up Well (and What to Do About It)
November 29, 2009 - 2:13 pm
Tags: best practices, Instructional Leadership, science
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Is education a science, and if so, what kind of science? What implications does this have for instructional leadership? We typically think of physics as the ideal science – it is consistent, universal, and predictable. An experiment conducted in France can be replicated in Mexico or the United States, and the same results can be [...]
Stepping It Up
July 19, 2009 - 12:27 pm
Tags: improvement
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When you’re trying to bring about a change, how and when do you decide if your efforts are working? If your efforts are either misdirected or inadequate, it’s important to know this quickly so you can make an adjustment. If you’re trying to lose ten pounds, and your strategy is to eat less red meat [...]
Quote of the Day: PLCs & Research
January 1, 2009 - 10:35 pm
Tags: Professional Development, Research
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There is no lack of research for those who seek to promote discussion of effective teaching. The issue is whether or not educators are prepared to accept their responsibilities to work together to become proficient consumers of that research. A professional learning community will fulfill that responsibility by ensuring that frequent and focused discussions on [...]
Inbox Zero for Principals
August 29, 2007 - 4:02 pm
Tags: Professional Development
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Jocelyn at the AWSP blog The Comp Book points out the relevance of Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero presentation for principals. Mann’s audience is typically the Silicon Valley crowd, but his advice for handling a high volume of email is equally applicable to school leaders. At the 2007 WASA-AWSP Summer Conference, I gave a presentation entitled [...]
Results Now Chapter 1: The Buffer
May 15, 2007 - 6:20 pm
Tags: Change, Instructional Leadership
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Schmoker says in Results Now that the single greatest obstacle to major improvement in our schools is what he calls “the buffer.” The buffer is, simply put, the unspoken norm in the education profession that no one will question what teachers teach, or how well they teach it. The buffer is ostensibly a matter of [...]
July 2, 2009 - 2:54 pm
I really enjoyed your presentation at the conference. Your information was exactly what I needed to continue moving forward with powerful PLC’s working with student achievement data.
I would really like to access your powerpoint, but for some reason, it will not open for me. The templates opened fine, but not the powerpoint. Do you have any suggestions??
Thanks,
Janet
Principal, Roosevelt Elementary, Granger
July 4, 2009 - 6:30 pm
Hi Janet,
Thanks for coming to the presentation. If you download the PPT, and then try to open it, it should work, but let me know if it doesn’t. I’ve had trouble when using the “open” option, but it’s worked for me when I save the file and then open it.