Five Fun Facts....
Want to know the five most interesting things that I learned yesterday here at the NSDC Summer Conference on Teacher Leadership?
Here they are, in no particular order:
1. In the session titled In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data--led by Courtney Carter and Linda Rerucha--I learned that research done by the AFT has shown that only 11 states have strong alignment between their standardized test questions and their state standards. What implications does that have for the way testing is used to judge the success of students and schools?
2. In the session titled Closing the Male Achievement Gap in Literacy---led by Dawn Ryan and Kelley King---I learned that girls outperform boys in literacy tasks in the 35 most industrialized nations of the world. What implications does that have for educators worldwide?
3. I also learned from King and Ryan that "pecking order" is very important to adolescent boys and that boys who are low in the pecking order are often the most academically fragile. Will that change how you view the students in your classroom next year?
4. I learned from Jane Marie Marlin, Mary Evelyn Hollaway and Lisa Shaddix of Birmingham, Alabama---who led the session Under Construction: Building Learning Communities from the Ground Up---that being task oriented is really important for novice professional learning teams. Having clear tasks to complete can help to reduce the ambiguity that often comes from learning to collaborate---making the work more efficient and appropriate.
5. I picked up a neat phrase from a participant in the Under Construction session. When describing the work of PLTs, she said something along the lines of, "It's important to remember and to reiterate that what teams learn over time in highly functioning PLCs will change---but the fact that we are learning from one another should never change. It is the constant in the learning community experiment."
What were the top five things that you learned while attending Converging Forces? Leave a comment and let's share what we've learned!
Want to know the five most interesting things that I learned yesterday here at the NSDC Summer Conference on Teacher Leadership?
Here they are, in no particular order:
1. In the session titled In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data--led by Courtney Carter and Linda Rerucha--I learned that research done by the AFT has shown that only 11 states have strong alignment between their standardized test questions and their state standards. What implications does that have for the way testing is used to judge the success of students and schools?
2. In the session titled Closing the Male Achievement Gap in Literacy---led by Dawn Ryan and Kelley King---I learned that girls outperform boys in literacy tasks in the 35 most industrialized nations of the world. What implications does that have for educators worldwide?
3. I also learned from King and Ryan that "pecking order" is very important to adolescent boys and that boys who are low in the pecking order are often the most academically fragile. Will that change how you view the students in your classroom next year?
4. I learned from Jane Marie Marlin, Mary Evelyn Hollaway and Lisa Shaddix of Birmingham, Alabama---who led the session Under Construction: Building Learning Communities from the Ground Up---that being task oriented is really important for novice professional learning teams. Having clear tasks to complete can help to reduce the ambiguity that often comes from learning to collaborate---making the work more efficient and appropriate.
5. I picked up a neat phrase from a participant in the Under Construction session. When describing the work of PLTs, she said something along the lines of, "It's important to remember and to reiterate that what teams learn over time in highly functioning PLCs will change---but the fact that we are learning from one another should never change. It is the constant in the learning community experiment."
What were the top five things that you learned while attending Converging Forces? Leave a comment and let's share what we've learned!
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