Effective Leadership for Today’s Learners

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What We’ll Do

I want you to learn the specific challenges facing education today,

so that

so thatin the long run, you

will be able to

on your own

create innovative and collaborative

solutions to overcome them.

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Deceptively Native

Well I’m on like Google or Google images like at least everyday.  I use it for everything . . . . [S]chool or like if somebody is talking about something and you have no idea what’s going on so you’ll go home and you’ll Google it.  And you’ll be like oh, that’s what they’re talking about.– 9/11th Grade Girl, Southwestern City.

Source: Lenhart, Amanda, Arafeh, Sousan, Smith, Aaron, MacGill, Alexandrea, Writing, Technology, and Teens, Pew Internet & American Life Project, April 2008, http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2008/Writing-Technology-and-Teens/05-Teens-and-Their-Writing-Habits/06-The-internet-is-a-primary-source-of-research.aspx?r=1, Accessed on July 17, 2010. "Teens and Their Writing Habits,"

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I am wrong.

I am wrong.

Often.

Fear of Acting

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It Begins With You

Who are the citizens you wish to send out into the world?

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Things we analyzed

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Transfer wasn’t

happening

Analysis, Synthesis,

and Creation

Writing with voice

An expanding definition of

literacy

Literacy...

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Allowed us to provide students with access to skills that Colleges are

clamoring for.

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In school, where do we get our word intake from?

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Codes

Codes

Codes

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New?

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Grad School Scenario

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New?

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We have to work as a faculty to create novel

problems

“The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future.... In essence, it consists in learning initially not a skill but a general idea which can then be used as a basis for recognizing subsequent problems.... Bruner, Process of Education p. 17

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Who Are You?

Who Are You?

What’s Your Big Idea?

Who Are You?

What’s Your Big Idea? Who Are You?

What’s Your Big Idea? Who Are You?

Why Should We Care Enough to Follow You?

What’s Your Big Idea? Who Are You?

Why Should We Care Enough to Follow You?

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Challenge People’s Belief Systems

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Point to Your Mission in Action

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The mission of the ..., valuing our tradition of excellence, is to develop all of our students as passionate, confident, life-long learners who have competence and strength of character to realize their aspirations and thoughtfully contribute to a diverse and changing world.

Strategies

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Give to Get

The Embedded Journalist

Catch and Reward

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Be the Lead Learner, because We Need You to.

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Patrick Higgins, Jr.Orangehiggins@gmail.com