A change in leadership is always an interesting experience. It’s also a great opportunity for self-assessment and adjusting your direction and focus. This is very descriptive of this year in Birdville, as we have a new superintendent and several other members of the leadership team (or, more accurately, the “cabinet”). As expected, our new leaders [...]
Entries Tagged as 'change'
Embracing Changes for a New Year
September 7, 2011 · No Comments · Educational technology, leadership, Teaching and Learning
Tags: Birdville·BISD·change·education·Educational technology·ITS·leadership
Web 2.0 in BISD: An Amazing Impact
February 1, 2011 · 2 Comments · 21st Century Skills, Blogging, collaboration, creativity, Digital Storytelling, Educational technology, images/video, implementation, leadership, Online Office Tools, podcasting, Social Networks, Spreading the Word, Web Tools, Wikis
Schools are popular targets of those who wish to find a scapegoat for every societal ill from a sour economy to the pitiful season the Dallas Cowboys put us through this year. I believe we are part of the problem, because we don’t do enough to shout about our successes from every rooftop in every [...]
Tags: 21st Century Skills·Birdville·change·education·technology·web 2.0
I Don’t Want No Satisfaction
August 4, 2010 · 1 Comment · 21st Century Skills, leadership
A new school year has begun for many of us. I returned this past Monday. Like everyone else in the education field, we’re training, organizing, planning, and anticipating the arrival of a new season of opportunity, a new chance to have an impact on a new group of students. When I was a classroom teacher, [...]
Live Blogging from ISTE: Change from the Radical Center of Education
June 29, 2010 · No Comments · Educational technology, implementation, ISTE 2010
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Why Not?
May 13, 2010 · No Comments · 21st Century Skills, Educational technology, implementation, leadership
Awhile back I wrote on the “professional malpractice” of failing to move teaching and learning into the 21st century. I realize there are many reasons (excuses) for failing to do so, such as inadequate resources, improper or insufficient training, restrictive administrative policies, etc. Jeff Utecht recently wrote a nice, short post on what is likely [...]
Tags: change·education·effort·excuses·priorities·technology·time
A Day With Heidi Hayes Jacobs
February 17, 2010 · 2 Comments · 21st Century Skills, eLearning, Social Networks, Web Tools
Spent the day today at Richland High School listening to Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs. It was a very exciting opportunity and a fantastic chance for many of our district’s teachers and administrators to hear something that needs to be heard: we MUST refocus our curriculum and practices to meet the needs of students is a [...]
Tags: 21st Century Skills·change·curriculum·education·learning·teaching·technology
Did You Know 4.0
September 22, 2009 · No Comments · 21st Century Skills, society
Just released revision of the famous video. Despite some significant changes to the video, the main idea remains the same: Our world is nothing like the world many of us grew up in, the nature of information has evolved, and the tools and resources we rely on today won’t likely be around in just a [...]
Tags: change·Did You Know·evolution·future·history·technology
