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INNOVATIVE LEARDERSHIP IN A PARTICIPATORY WEB 2.0 WORLD CEOS in top innovative companies don’t delegate creative work…they do it themselves… SEVEN DESIGN ELEMENTS

1. Own the innovation

Actions… • Technology, social media, multimedia, and eCommunication should inform every decision • Digital content • Implementation of common core • Under performance of subgroups • CTO in cabinet • Student voice • Enviromental scanning • Expectations of faculty • Etc.

Implementation of common core you need to talk about how people best learn and how technology is best used.

2. Drive change through creativity and knowledge Be creative, informed, tolerant and critical of digital technologies and youth in driving change.

Three Perspectives on Learning: • Acquisition (the individual) • Pariticipation (the group, community, network, culture) • Knowledge Creation (the innovative knowledge community)

INNOVATORS DNA • Associating – they don’t just stay in sphere of influence but they go out of it. Classes need to be more innovative with interdisciplinary flow. • Questioning – Ask why not. Question the unquestionable. • Observing – we need to learn our clients and students very well. Observe how clients do participate • Experimenting – get out of the mode of kids having to have the right answer. Do action research. • Networking – be in different kinds of spheres. Connecting with people.

We need to be a bit more deliberate. Be innovative. What about gaming and learning?

3. Shift form rules to shared principles …Actively facilitate the development and adoption of guiding principles for 21st century learning. Effectiveness of teachers: Three effective teachers in a row (grades 3-5): your kids will have a gain of 50 percentile over kids who don’t. Effects of a single ineffective teacher is detectable 4 years later.

The Black Box – a recurring positive relationship between student learning and teachers’ flexibility, creativity, and adaptability. (Linda Darling-Hammond)

What really motivates workers? Research says if workers are making progress that motivates them. On worst days the top one is collaboration. Collaboration is a powerful motivator.

High Tech High in San Diego Principles: Personalization (they have a senior in high school that has 2 teachers. It’s all about project based learning), adult world connection, common intellectual mission and teacher as designer.

ACTIONS: Facilitate identification of and commitment to shared principles Set expectation…

4. Establish professional learning system

Observe… Less student contact time Lesson study Classroom observations Singapore…teachers’ network

Observe… Few causal studies 49 hours of substantial professional development can increase student scores by 21 percentiles (elementary) (6+ days)

Types of professional development Virtual Blended Just-in-time Mentoring Coaching Collaborative review of student work Etc.

Effectiveness of teachers = #1 Key elements of professional learning: sustained over time Content basedYou need solid networks and devices Embedded in plc focused on concrete tasks. Shape culture Establish a culture of openness, collegiability, honesty, and adaptability, focused on the standards, guided by the principles

5. Look for positive deviance Look around What is working despite the odds (and our biases) Tap into it…

6. Ensure digital access and infrastructure