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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Michael Fullan, 2002, p. It appears that much of the focus for improvement has been on creating rigorous classroom instruction to increase student achievement measured by the highly contested standardized tests. Leaders who have deeper and more lasting impact provide more comprehensive leadership than focusing just on higher standards.

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Google Adds New Classroom Features. Use Them Responsibly.

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All the MCU fans out there know that this phrase was first used in the 1962 Amazing Fantasy #15 issue and then later by Uncle Ben in the 2002 Spiderman movie. Google has added some new features to Classroom. Soon you’ll be able to keep your students focused by creating locked quizzes using Google Forms while in Classroom.

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Lessons from a school without walls

The Hechinger Report

No classroom walls divide them. “It There are no classrooms but rather a series of contiguous, multipurpose spaces arrayed around the central stairs, which themselves double as social meeting areas or lecture seats. The 10 grades are each split into groups with a designated base (analogous to a homeroom) and teacher. “We

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

The group process becomes the structure within which content and tacit knowledge, in the form of expected levels of application of the content, are defined. It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002).

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Study Findings

Connecting 2 the World

In discussing this document in a group interview, the difficulty in creating an agreed upon product was obvious: Well, what formally…I think the … for the classroom trainers, they have a document. Later: P: There’s a certain way to do that in the classroom. However, partaged knowledge is difficult to quantify, control, and capture.

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