Let the Learning Officially Begin!
After an intense but thought provoking pre-conference session, Wednesday, July 16 marked the official beginning of the Building Learning Communities Conference.
- Keynote-Dr. Michael Fullan www.michaelfullan.ca
Take-aways from the presentation
Keynote-Dr. Michael Fullan (here's a link to the video presentation)
- 3 Principal Keys to Maximizing Impact
- 1. New Pedagogy
- 2. Deep Learning
- 3. Digital Acceleration
- Role of the Principal
- Agent of Change
- System Player
- Lead the Learning
- Social Capital=quality and quantity of interactions and relationships among people
- Decisional Capital=capacity to generate and use data to make effective decsions
- To change a school culture you need to remove fear
- Pedagogy is at the center--->digital tool is the accelerator
- Talk the Walk=administrators, teachers, and student need to be able to explain and articulate to be influential
- Principal as a CHANGE AGENT
- passion w/o skill is dangerous
- skill development is the root to moral purpose
- need to be pushy....and pully
- Skills for Leading Change
- challenge status quo
- transparency
- create commonly owned plan for success
- maintain sense of urgency for sustainable results
- commit to continuous self improvement
- build external networks and partnerships
- Right Drivers (policy)
- capacity building
- collaborative work
- pedagogy
- systemness
- Wrong Drivers (enablers)
- accountability
- indv. teacher and leadership quality
- technology
- fragmented strategies
For a list of Michael Fullan's books and resources click here. Some of them include:
- Professional Capital
- The Principal
- Stratosphere
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