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#3 - What are the sources of order, power, and purpose within the school?

The main sources that are involve include, the superintendent, the community stakeholders, the principal, the teachers/staff, the students, and the parents. The purpose is to enhance the the integrated data management and analysis software within the district as well as the school. This includes the lack of systems and data analysis and design skills amongst the staff, the lack of time caused by present effort at stopgap measures to improve high stakes test scores, and worry about what the data might reveal.

The Problem

#2 - Developing collegiality, honest, and open communication, and support amongst faculty.

Team building events:


 * Create a positive group atmosphere
 * Help people to relax
 * Break down social barriers
 * Energize & motivate
 * Help people to "think outside the box"
 * Help people to get to know one another
 * Energize & motivate
 * Help people to "think outside the box"
 * Help people to get to know one another
 * Help people to get to know one another
 * Help people to get to know one another

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">William H. Bergquist, S. R. (1981). A handbook for faculty development, Volume 3. Chicago: Council of Independent Colleges.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">#6 - Professional development for teachers and staff.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative was designed by teachers for teachers in order to provide technical support, professional development opportunities, and recognition for teachers of all content areas and grade levels. Research confirms that teachers are the single most important factor in raising student achievement and the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative aims to strengthen the Department's efforts to provide the necessary support for teachers.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Teacher Roundtables

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Department officials continue to host roundtable discussions to meet with teachers representing all communities of educators and to discuss various issues impacting education today.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Teacher Training Corps

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The Teacher Training Corps includes about 100 educators that provide on-site technical assistance and instructional strategies sessions at Teacher-to-Teacher Workshops. They were chosen from over 1,800 teachers and administrators who applied. Sign up for Teacher E-mail Updates if you are interested in being notified when the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative is accepting new proposals to join the Teacher Training Corps.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Editor. (2011, April 5). Professional Development. Retrieved April 5, 2011, from ED.Gov: http://www2.ed.gov/teachers/dev/contedu/edpicks.jhtml

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">#7 Use of technology

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The administration along with the teachers could develop and innovative learning environment for students. Examples of 21st century education include classrooms that are a hybrid between a corporate conference room and a minature production studio. An environment like this creates students to become thinkers, communicators, and innovators.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Bernie Trilling, C. F. (2009). 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times. San Francisco: Jossey-Wells

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">21st century reform is to create an accessible tool that educators can use to find lesson plans that address their grade level’s content standards as well as 21st century skills.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Schools in the 21st century will be laced with a project-based curriculum for life aimed at engaging students in addressing real-world problems, issues important to humanity, and questions that matter. This is a dramatic departure from the factory-model education of the past. It is abandonment, finally, of textbook-driven, teacher-centered, paper and pencil schooling. It means a new way of understanding the concept of “knowledge”, a new definition of the “educated person”. A new way of designing and delivering the curriculum is required.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Teacher - From primary role as a dispenser of information to orchestrator of learning and helping students turn information into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">﻿﻿Learner - In the past a learner was a young person who went to school, spent a specified amount of time in certain courses, received passing grades and graduated. Today we must see learners in a new context:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">First – we must maintain student interest by helping them see how what they are learning prepares them for life in the real world.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Second – we must instill curiosity, which is fundamental to lifelong learning.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Third – we must be flexible in how we teach.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Fourth – we must excite learners to become even more resourceful so that they will continue to learn outside the formal school day.”

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/What_is_21st_Century_Education.htm