Educational Leadership: Challenging the Status Quo

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Educational LeadershipChallenging the Status Quo

• Christine Berrong and Roxanne Ferrici
• available online
• http//www.bluenotegirl.com/

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Association of Supervision and Curriculum
Development

• ASCD, a community of educators, advocating sound
  policies and sharing best practices to achieve
  the success of each learner.
• www.ascd.org

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ASCD

• Current Events
• Best Practice
• Up to Date Legislation
• Leadership Tutorials
• Professional Development Resource
• Annual Conference
• Network of Support

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Are We Fixing the Wrong Things?

• Author Yong Zao
• Director of the U.S.-China Center for Educational
  Excellence
• Co-director of Elanguage Project
• http//zhao.educ.msu.edu/

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Are We Fixing the Wrong Things?

• Report A Nation at Risk, 1983
• Deficient in science technology
• Current reform
• Comparisons to China
• What about creativity?
• Two problems

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Are We Fixing the Wrong Things?

• Discussion
• Do you agree with the author that we are fixing
  the wrong things?
• How would you apply the theories we read about to
  reform a school system in order to foster
  creativity in students?
• How do we prepare students to think more globally
  when social studies has been pushed aside by
  reformers?

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Transforming New York Citys Public Schools

• By Barbara Bartholomew
• Formerly a Regional Director of School
  Improvement in New York City
• Currently Assistant Professor of Reading and
  Literacy at California State University,
  Bakersfield, CA

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Transforming New York Citys Public Schools

• 2001 - Michael Bloomberg elected mayor of NYC
• 2002 - given complete control of schools
• The Reform
• The Problems
• What did Bloomberg learn?
• Letter to LA parents

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Transforming New York Citys Public Schools

• Discussion
• If you were to continue this article and write
  suggestions for Michael Bloomberg, what would
  they be?
• Can Senges theory (also a business model) be
  applied to this situation?

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The New Integration

• Richard D. Kahlenberg
• Senior Fellow - The Century Foundation
• Attended Harvard and Harvard Law School
• Has written books, articles for major newspapers,
  and appeared on all major news networks
• http//www.equaleducation.org/press.asp?staff14

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The New Integration

• Integration by socioeconomic status
• Wake County, North Carolina
• Research
• Desegregation studies
• Coleman report
• Why high-poverty schools dont work
• Strategies for integration
• What about middle-class students?

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The New Integration

• Discussion
• If you were an administrator in one of these
  districts, how would you handle political aspects
  of the integration?
• How could this work in the Chicago Public Schools?

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Having it All

• By David Ferrero
• Ability-grouped classes vs. higher order
  applications
• Innovative Traditionalism
• Student success based on Collaboration
• Making them think theyre smarter than they
  really are.

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Having it All

• Discussion
• Is your school traditional or innovative?
• Do teachers in your building plan thematically?
• How difficult would it be to move to this model?
• What are some of the obstacles your staff would
  face in this change?

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The Ripple Effect

• By Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink
• Paired Schools
• Networked Districts
• Community Consultation
• Collective Accountability
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Learning to See

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The Ripple Effect

• Sustainable leadership
• What are your neighbors doing?
• The fortunes of one are perversely linked to
  the failures of another.
• What imprint does your leadership leave on your
  neighbors?
• What are your thoughts on magnet and charter
  schools?

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Sources
Articles from Educational Leadership, May 2006,
Vol. 63, No. 8. Information on Barbara
Bartholomew retrieved July 27, 2006, from
http//www.csub.edu/soe/news/soe_news_nov.pdf. How
to Develop a Professional Learning Community
Passion and Persistence by Richard DuFour,
National Education Service 2002.