Have a Good Life: It`s Common Sense with Heather Staker Transformative Principal 210

It`s Common Sense with Heather Staker Transformative Principal 210

Sunday, January 21, 2018 by jethrojones

Heather Staker is a former Mckenzie Consultant and coauthor of the book Blended Learning: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools.

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Senior in High School as a state school board member
Reasonable and balanced voice that represents the whole.
Interested and well-versed in innovation
Clayton Christensen Center for Disruptive Innovation
It’s not just efficiency, it’s common sense to give kids information at their pace.
Agency is so important.
Disrupting Class
Actin Academy program for core skills.
7 types of blended learning
What challenges do we still face?
Schools lead with 1:1 announcements.
How to address 1:1 issues?
Lead with a very clear plan for how they use online learning.
District and vendor level must prevent teachers from having to be the tech wizard.
Help teachers to reimagine their role.
Factory model settings do not give teachers the opportunity to do increase the humanity that can be in our schools.
Mentors and tutors for each child.
Not getting to deep work?
Station rotations can prevent this. Not every blended learning model is perfect.
How to create higher performing classrooms in 7 moves.
Younger ages, recommended 20 minutes max per day on screens.
“Certain children“ aren’t capable, but every child can learn
It’s the adults. We get in our own way.

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