Have a Good Life: Modern Learners with Will Richardson and Bruce Dixon Transformative Principal 257

Modern Learners with Will Richardson and Bruce Dixon Transformative Principal 257

Sunday, December 16, 2018 by jethrojones

Change school became a powerful space for people to have powerful conversations about school.
Change school brings a level of transparency and honesty that is really powerful.
Have an ongoing conversation with people who have similar ideas and understandings and have had experiences to make it possible.
People feel trusted inside this community.
It can be a difficult conversation about what modern learning should look like.
Constant learning is fascinating.
Tried to create some space for people to connect who don’t have room for that in their physical spaces.
It is very dependent on whether people are school leaders or something else.
The dark ages of change - leadership from the middle.
People who can be influencers - parents, students,
suddenly it’s not just about one teacher or one principal.
How to get parent and student feedback.
You often see yourself very isolated in a school.
People are looking for direct prompts and cues
So much of the educational conversation is led by journalists and politicians. We have to stop that.
People respond with a blank look to a blank slate because they don’t have the practice at it.
Modern Learners Lens
Existing schools - best vehicle for communication is your students.
We’ve conditioned kids to do what we say.
The notion of setting expectations.
If we’re going to shift the goalpost, we need to spend a lot of time talking to parents about the what and the why.
TED Podcast
Do we trust kids?
Four areas that we have to think hard about - Modern Learners Lens
Schools don’t know what they believe, they don’t articulate what they believe
Understand how literacy is changing.
Understand what is actually possible in schools now.
Peter Senge
Most change efforts are not grounded in those conversations.
Modern Learner Community
Change.school for more information
How to be a transformative principal?
Bruce: Engage more deeply in the spaces we already referred to.
Will: Have a willingness to see if you are actually doing what you believe in your classrooms!

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