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Improvement is Always Possible

A Principal's Reflections

I shared the following back in 2014: Let’s face the perceived fact that there will never be enough time to get everything done in any of our days. While this is a legitimate challenge, we all know full well that it will materialize at some point. Or is there? Regardless of your respective role in education, time will always be your enemy.

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The Limitations of Being a Disconnected Nomad

A Principal's Reflections

As a result I chastised my friends and made sure that the environment at my school was not only free of this stupid entity, but also other forms of distracting technologies that would interfere with student learning. Image credit: [link] Being a disconnected nomad limited my ability to lead and learn.

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Pillars of Digital Leadership Series: Professional Growth

A Principal's Reflections

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. However, the mounting pressure from ridiculous mandates as a result of the current education reform movement and massive budget cuts across the country, have made it a challenge to learn through traditional pathways.

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The Innovative Educator named blog to follow in 2014

The Innovative Educator

What a nice gift this holiday season to find that Common Sense Media''s Graphite blog listed this The Innovative Educator as one of the 11 to follow in 2014. This blog was in great company with several members of my personal learning network being named as well. Here is the rest of the list: 1. Richard Byrne @rmbyrne 3.

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Student Reflection with Digital Portfolios

Teacher Reboot Camp

The teachers are very new to web tools, developing Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) and are currently teaching full time. I look forward to grading their reflective eportfolios, because this is when my students begin to look back at their learning journey and see how much they’ve grown. Recommended Tools.

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Uncommon Learning

A Principal's Reflections

It is not that our students are actually learning differently per se, but the environment in which they are learning is dramatically different. Uncommon learning refers to initiatives and pedagogical techniques that are not present in scale in a typical school or district.

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Digital Leadership is Not Optional

A Principal's Reflections

A great deal has changed since Digital Leadership was published in 2014. Personalized and blended learning pathways were proclaimed to be the future of education. What I have described above only accounts for a small subset of the changes we have seen since 2014.

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