Challenges & Design
An action that signals to the delicate task of connecting the matter of which schooling is made: curriculum, instruction, assessment, and evaluation. It requires a deliberate focus on curricular matters resulting in the improvement of students' educative experiences and learning.
What is curriculum leadership?
A Model that specifies a process for the deliberation of curriculum development. It identifies the various stages or "phases" that the work of this kind entails.
What is arrested teacher development?
1. Systems thinking
2. Personal mastery
3. Mental Models
4. Building shared vision
5. Team learning
What are Senge's five core disciplines?
A change that is incremental and straightforward to what a school needs to do next.
What is a first order change?
To maintain the daily administrative operations of the school and to actively ensure that students are exposed to a rigorous and well-rounded curriculum.
What is a principal's responsibility?
1. Platform
2. Deliberation
3. Design
What are the three moments or phases in the deliberative model of curriculum development?
A report that public schools didn't make a significant difference.
What is the Equality of Education Opportunity Study (EEOS)?
This thwarts arrested teacher development.
What is collaboration?
A change that is not incremental, it requires a substantially different approach in defining and resolving a problem.
What is a second order change?
Should be involved in fulfilling the school's mission.
Who is everyone?
It involves deep conversation about the plans, visions, and goals that should be a part of a school curriculum.
What is the platform phase?
The characteristics correlated with student success.
What are the "correlates"?
These add important pieces to the process of teacher growth and development through a network of professionals.
What are professional learning communities?
He stated, "may represent the richest, most unprecedented culmination of the best we know about authentic school improvement".
Who is Schmoker?
Leaders who readily negotiate and mediate divergent positions by propitiating franl, respectful, and, in most cases, essential exchanges.
What is an educational broker?
The point of process where all stakeholders move from the conceptual work of negotiating and finding a common language for curriculum to the programmatic dimension that outlining a plan demands.
What is the deliberation phase?
The view that a school's personnel can control enough of the variables to allow all students to be successful.
What is the effective schools premise?
A gap between the shared values people hold and the reality of their lives, or a conflict among people in a community over values or strategy.
What is the adaptive challenge?
She wrote "Finding Time for Collaboration".
Who is Raywid (1993)?
Leaders who serve as interpreters of the language, culture, and values of a school community and who translate said language and values to the school's constituency.
Who are cultural translators?
An interesting and insightful glimpse into the past that offers real life experiences as lessons to be learned.
What is a "Dave" story?
He wrote The Fifth Discipline and Schools That Learn.
Who is Peter Senge?
A learning/teaching environment where principals develop responsible and qualified teachers who strongly desire to work together as a curriculum team in a culture of discovery, revitalization, renewal, and continual improvement.
What is a professional learning community?
It buys time, prepares leaders and teams to meet adaptive challenges, allows everyone to collaborate, and encourages trust.
What is effective planning?