Educational Leadership:Challenging the Status Quo

Christine Berrong and Roxanne Ferrici

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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/

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

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?

Transforming New York City’s 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

Transforming New York City’s 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

Transforming New York City’s Public Schools

Discussion: If you were to continue this article and write

suggestions for Michael Bloomberg, what would they be?

Can Senge’s theory (also a business model) be applied to this situation?

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?staff=14

The New Integration Integration by socioeconomic status

Wake County, North Carolina Research

Desegregation studies Coleman report Why high-poverty schools don’t work

Strategies for integration What about middle-class students?

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?

Having it All By David Ferrero Ability-grouped classes vs. higher order

applications “Innovative Traditionalism” Student success based on

Collaboration “Making them think they’re smarter than

they really are.”

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?

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

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?

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.