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Be What We Expect Our Students To Become | Connected Principals — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:10:27 +0000

[...] read a great blog post from Doug Johnson. He writes in response to a post from Scott McLeod on his Dangerously Irrelevant Blog below: As much fun as speculating what education might or ought to look like in 2050 (I’ll [...]

By: Sean Nash

Sean Nash — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

I was going to respond simply with:

“no pressure.”

I see Will beat me to that. So I suppose my comment will only add more heat. Enjoy. Should be a great meeting.

By: Greg Davis

Greg Davis — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Looks like there is a wide variety of agendas and perspectives in the room. Good start. I’ll be looking forward to seeing the future posts on this group’s work.

For my 2 cents worth, the centerpiece of any future vision initiative needs to be ubiquitous access to the Internet for all Iowa students, 24X7. Get the ball rolling on that and doors will open to school transformation.

By: Russ Goerend

Russ Goerend — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Any classroom teachers?

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Will: Could you ask for a better challenge? A better audience? Bravo to both.

By: Richard Byrne

Richard Byrne — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

I have to agree with Russ on this one (I’ve been following his Tweets). If you do not include people at the ground level who have an intimate knowledge of being in a classroom on a daily basis, you run the risk of making plans that do not account for daily logistics. An analogy for this: you hire a limo driver, tell him to drive you to point X, but don’t listen when he tells you there is brick wall in the middle of road. Who then is to blame for not getting to the destination? The driver who was doing what he was told or you for not listening to his warning?

I don’t think you need to open the meeting to all comers. But you might want to consider having each superintendent bring a teacher from their districts. My superintendent invited me to attend a meeting with him last year and this lowly classroom teacher saved him money that he was ready to spend on a program that logistically wouldn’t have worked in our building.

By: Kimberly Moritz

Kimberly Moritz — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

I want to come! One New Yorker. . .

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Gee, I wish I lived in Iowa (and taught there). We are still trying to get permission to blog in my district….

By: Matt Townsley

Matt Townsley — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

What’s the status on getting more ed. leadership academics on board to really get this train moving? If there’s only two (McLeod and Nash) in Iowa and less than a dozen across the country (per previous conversation with Scott), then it sounds like there’s plenty of room for improvement in the administrator-prep category, too.

By: Tom Hoffman

Tom Hoffman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

I would start by asking “Do we need Iowa in 2050?” Why shouldn’t we just start moving people out of here? Given both the causes and effects of global warming, it might be better to just shut this place down.