Effective Leadership
for Today’s Learners
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What We’ll Do
I want you to learn the specific
challenges facing your school
community today,
so that
so that
 in the long run, you
    will be able to
on your
  own
create innovative
and collaborative
   solutions to
 overcome them.
My Bias
First Universal Issue:
 Misconception Analysis
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Deceptively Native




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Well I’m on like Google or Google images like at least
              everyday.  I use it for everything . . . . [S]chool or like
              if somebody is talking about something and you have
              no idea what’s going on so you’ll go home and you’ll
              Google it.  And you’ll be like oh, that’s what they’re
              talking about.
              – 9/11th Grade Girl, Southwestern City.




Source: Lenhart, Amanda, Arafeh, Sousan, Smith, Aaron, MacGill, Alexandrea, Writing, Technology, and Teens, Pew Internet & American Life Project, April 2008, http://
www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2008/Writing-Technology-and-Teens/05-Teens-and-Their-Writing-Habits/06-The-internet-is-a-primary-source-of-research.aspx?r=1, Accessed on July
17, 2010. "Teens and Their Writing Habits,"
Innovative Thinkers
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I am wrong.
I am wrong.

  Often.
Fear of Acting
It Begins With You
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Second
                   Universal
                     Issue:
                   Listening
                    to What
                     Good
                   Data Tells
                       Us
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Things we analyzed


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Transfer
  wasn’t
happening
Analysis,
 Synthesis,
and Creation
Writing with voice
An expanding
 definition of
   literacy
Literacy...




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Allowed us to provide
students with access to
skills that Colleges are
     clamoring for.
Kill the Mothership
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Third Universal Issue:
      Consumables
In school, where do we get our
      word intake from?
34 Gigabytes
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Codes
Codes
Codes
traditional?
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                                                   New?
Strategies




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Move Cheese



Lesson Plan Scenario
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We have to work
 as a faculty to
  create novel
    problems
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Challenge People’s
 Belief Systems

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Culture
The
Embedded
 Journalist




 Catch and
  Reward
Competence
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Give to
  Get
The mission of the ..., valuing our
tradition of excellence, is to develop
all of our students as passionate,
confident, life-long learners who have
competence and strength of character
to realize their aspirations and
thoughtfully contribute to a diverse
and changing world.
Point to Your Mission in Action



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Measure Your Melon Mission
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Be the lead learner,
because we need you to be.




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What is your next
 step after today?
How will you create
     change?
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Patrick Higgins, Jr.
Orangehiggins@gmail.com

Effective leadership