In this excerpt from Breakthrough Leadership by Alan M. Blankstein and Marcus J. Newsome, the authors provide recommendations for the first one hundred days of school in a pandemic re-entry plan.
In Chapter three from Breakthrough Leadership by Alan M. Blankstein and Marcus J. Newsom, the authors discuss the key elements of reopening schools during COVID-19.
"In the many years that we have worked in educational leadership and school improvement, we have come to believe that caring lies at the heart of schooling and promoting the learning and development of children."
"Each of our eight cases represents a major press forward in learning for all students under current conditions, and as such captures what can be accomplished through deep leadership. The foundation idea for Ithaca City School District is that one."
Doug Fisher and Dominique Smith, co-authors of Leading the Rebound, chat about school leaders and all educators need to be thinking about as they plan for a post-pandemic school year.
4 Traits of a Governance Mindset: How School Boards and Superintendents Can Create Effective Governance Systems. Read here.
For Balanced Assessment, Start with the System & its Leaders. Read the Corwin Connect post.
Read this Corwin Connect post from the authors of Coaching Conversations: "How to say what you mean… without being mean".
Read this Corwin Connect post from Johnathan Eckert, the author of Leading Togther about managing turbulence in schools.
Read this blog post from one of the authors of The Other Side of the Report Card on how to assess SES and character in Report Cards.
The time for debate has passed. We need to transform learning now. In New Pedagogies for Deep Learning Joanne Quinn and Michael Fullan have discovered that when we transform learning, we also transform lives because deep learning is meaningful, gives purpose, and unleashes potential. The challenge is how to make this shift for all students. . . in all classrooms. . . in all schools. In this webinar, Quinn and Fullan explore this shift and introduce to participants the tools, tips, and strategies for realizing deep learning.
In this blog post, John Hattie explores finding the balance between surface and deep learning.