Explore strategies and tips lead learners can use to help create change in school and learning environments

1. Leveraging Digital Leadership
to
Create Change
Derek L. McCoy Steven Weber

2. About
Derek L. McCoy
Proud Principal
West Rowan Middle School
Twitter: @mccoyderek
Voxer: mccoyderek
Mccoyderek.com
Steven Weber
Assistant Superintendent
Fayetteville Public Schools
Twitter: @curriculumblog
Voxer: sweber

3. About us

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17. Danger
Of
Unchanged
Behaviors

28. Student Voice

29. Five Questions To Ask About Student Voice
1. What is the ratio of teacher talk vs. student talk?
2. How do the questions students are asked to grapple with support student
understanding?
3. Do the students ask each other questions? How often?
4. Do students use academic talk when they share their voice?
5. Do I provide students with a variety of options to share their voice?
(i.e., Blogging, VoiceThread, Google Hangout, Presentations, Videos,
and more)

30. Classroom talk is
frequently limited and is
used to check
comprehension rather
than develop thinking.
Fisher, Frey, & Rothenberg, 2008

31. Turn and Talk
How Do You
Incorporate
Student Voice
Inside and Outside
The Classroom?

32. Student Choice

33. Three Questions To Ask About Student Choice
1. Do we ask 25 students to complete the same project or do we assign
authentic tasks that require critical thinking, collaboration, choice, and
contribution?
2. Should student choice be reserved for Genius Hour or should it be
integrated in assignments and assessment?
3. How does student choice support student understanding?

34. What is really important is to focus on
new relationships; teacher to
students, students to students;
students to the world, teachers to
teachers. It’s also about how willing
we are as educators to shift the
control of learning in the classroom
from the teacher to the student.
Alan November, 2012

35. Turn and Talk
What are the
benefits of student
choice?
What does it look
like at your grade
level?

36. Teaching The 5 Cs
1. Critical Thinking
2. Communication
3. Collaboration
4. Creativity
5. Contribution

37. Compliance vs. Contribution
Are Students Being Compliant
Or Contributing?

38. Who Owns The Learning?

39. Questions To Ask About Student Contribution
1. How does ‘contribution’ lead to lifelong learning?
2. What is the difference between consumption and contribution?
3. Is our classroom designed to support compliance or student contribution?
4. What are three ways students can contribute in your class?
5. How would you design and plan instruction differently if you were designing
for student contribution?
6. Who owns the learning?

40. Classroom Learning Like a Playground

41. Resources
How Do You Create A Culture of Inquiry? (Weber, 2016, ASCD EDge)
Back to School: 7 Questions Educators Should Ask (Weber, 2015, ASCD EDge)
Classrooms That Inspire the 4 Cs (Weber, 2013, ASCD EDge)

42. Moonshot Thinking In Our Schools

44. About
Derek L. McCoy
Proud Principal
West Rowan Middle School
Twitter: @mccoyderek
Voxer: mccoyderek
Mccoyderek.com
Steven Weber
Assistant Superintendent
Fayetteville Public Schools
Twitter: @curriculumblog
Voxer: sweber