Education Leader Network Professional Development eBulletin
June 8th, 2011
for District Leaders 

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In This Issue
Distributed Leadership: I Do, We Do, You Do
3 Skills Students Need to Succeed
Assessment Balance and Quality: An Action Guide for School Leaders
21st Century Learning
What STEM Looks Like in the Middle and High School Classroom

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Free On Demand eSeminar by
Michael Fullan


This workshop focuses on the new implementation work beyond the Six Secrets of Change. It introduces some of the key concepts from the book Motion Leadership: The Skinny on Becoming Change Savvy (Corwin, November, 2009).


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Each PD eBulletin gives the busy district-level leader brief, practical, free, high quality learning opportunities in a variety of media formats.


Distributed Leadership:  

I Do, We Do, You Do

 

The term distributed leadership may be popular in schools, but that doesn't make its meaning any more definitive. With its roots in the field of social psychology, distributed leadership is likened by some to a "bossless" team. Others find it synonymous with individuals who "co-perform" tasks with a boss. Neither definition is quite accurate...

 


3 Skills Students Need to Succeed   

Alan November

 

In this 6 minute video, Alan November lays out what he identifies as the 3 things students need to know to be successful.

 


Assessment Balance and Quality:
An Action Guide for School Leaders

Steve Chappuis, Carol Commodore,  

Rick Stiggins

 

Designed to enhance understanding of sound assessment practice; administrators gain a clear vision of what excellence in assessment looks like and the seven essential assessment actions schools and districts can take to realize that vision.

 

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21st Century Learning

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This website provides all sorts of great short videos related to 21st Century Learning and Schools.

 

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What STEM Looks Like in the  

Middle and High School Classroom

June 9th at 12pm EST 

 

PCS Edventures, the national leader in STEM education programs and products, is offering a free online demonstration of what STEM education looks like in the classroom.

 

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