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The 6 Core Beliefs Behind Blending Leadership in Your School

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Blending Leadership: Six Simple Beliefs for Leading Online and Off by Stephen J. Valentine and Dr. Reshan Richards. We were living a version of the very concepts we were articulating—leaders iterate, and so, as leader-writers, we iterated our text and our message, we hacked across platforms, we engaged and shared.

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Respect Thy Time: How to Stop Calling Meetings That People Hate

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Valentine ( @sjvalentine ) is an educator, school leader, writer, and serial collaborator. And in the world we work in, with all that we have available, not being curious about tools is a sign of either an overworked leader or a leader who is simply not asking enough of the right question.

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What Would Happen If Learning in School Became More Like Working at a Startup?

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Valentine ( @sjvalentine ) is an educator, school leader, writer, and serial collaborator. If they walk away from the program with a better understanding of how to define a problem and link that to whatever idea they have, we count that as a success.

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From Playgrounds to Programmers: How Sharing Shapes Schools

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Code is the water that the fish don’t see, and its wranglers and writers benefit wildly from. Valentine ( @sjvalentine ) is an educator, school leader, writer, and serial collaborator. we’re doing so because someone wrote a program elegant enough and durable enough for human life to wrap itself around it. Then, do us a favor.

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Getting the Excel and Photoshop Kids to Play Together: A Conversation with Georg Petschnigg of FiftyThree

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Valentine ( @sjvalentine ) is an educator, school leader, writer, and serial collaborator. Or to see the way Catherine Madden recently developed a Skillshare class around visualization. It’s just incredible what people end up doing and how generous they are with sharing their knowledge.

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Let Students Define the Labor Market, Not Vice Versa: A Conversation With Joshua Cooper Ramo

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Valentine ( @sjvalentine ) is an educator, school leader, writer, and serial collaborator. Will the labor market define education, or should our education system prepare young people, as citizens, to actually define the labor market? You’d like it to be the latter.

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Manners Matter: The Blended Habits of Effective School Leaders

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Valentine ( @sjvalentine ) is an educator, school leader, writer, and serial collaborator. By articulating new, more efficient, more user friendly, more respectful ways of working, he’s encouraging those ways of working; by rewarding them, he’s developing them.

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