The Authors
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Transcript of The Authors
Written Assignment 4
byEwing Coleman GreenEDD 9100L CRN 35777
Nova Southeastern UniversityApril 10, 2013
The Authors Richard DuFour
Long-time educational administrator, author Professional Learning Community (PLC) expert Co-authored primary text in EDD 8111
Communities of Practice (DuFour & Eaker, 1998)
www.allthingsplc.info Robert Marzano
Long-time educational researcher and author www.marzanoresearch.com
Similarities to EDD 9100
Kouzes and Posner (2007) extensively cited Five practices of exemplary leadership (Model the
way, Inspire a shared vision, Challenge the process, Enable others to act, and Encourage the heart)
Staying in love; leadership is an affair of the heart Northouse (2012): leadership is an influence
process to achieve common goals, and leadership is about relationships and results
Clawson (2012): importance of emotion; VABEs Vision is essential
Similarities (cont’d) Principalship is key to creating culture and
building capacity (self-efficacy) Distributed leadership
Principal’s Actions Collaborative Teams TeacherActions Student Achievement
Professional development is embedded (learn from work versus taken away from work to learn)
Importance of communication (clear, inspiring)
Importance of celebration of milestones
Dissimilarities to EDD 9100
Focused primarily on leading educational systemic change and improving student achievement through PLCs Less on interpersonal aspects of leadership
No discussion of ethics and integrity
Learnings/Reinforcements
Every great leader is teaching and every great teacher is leading
Power of PLC to align resources to measurably improve student learning Three Big Ideas
All students learn at high levels Collaborative effort to meet student needs Results orientation (use SMART goals: Strategically aligned,
Measurable, Attainable, Results focused, Time-bound) Evidence of impact
Administrivia Focus on Student Learning
Learnings (cont’d) Collaborative practice, sharing, and observation
Learning from peers, mutual accountability Shift from principals vertically ‘supervising’
teachers to educators horizontally building collaborative capacity
Transformation from culture of isolation to culture of collaboration
Recurring cycle of collective inquiry Curriculum Learning engagement design
Monitoring student learning Individual student differentiation
Job Relevance My role as 8Red PLC leader
Essential to gain shared vision and ownership of direction
My role on Middle School Leadership Team Help us improve PLC effectiveness
My role on upcoming Differentiation Task Force TBD, student learning enrichment
My role as Algebra 1 teacher Individual student learning needs
Agreements Senior leadership must ensure organization has the
capacity to deliver against coherent initiatives Avoid initiative fatigue Focus on the critical few
Sustained, patient, continual effort Provide time and resources
Collaborative time (i.e., common planning time)
Role of effective educator is a calling, a work of love, because it is fundamentally about serving others The people; passion for a moral purpose The process; must be a lifelong learner
Agreements (cont’d)
Beware the Dark Side Clawson (2012): “Be aware that when people
work on something they believe in deeply, they can work so hard that they begin to do damage to themselves and others” (p.232) Be mindful of sphere of influence
Move to standards-based reporting including learning behaviors (O’Connor, 2007)
Disagreements Including traditional letter or numeric
grading schemes on standards-based report cards (O’Connor, 2013)
Discussion on formative assessment omitted importance of student self-assessment (McMillan & Hearn, 2008)
Who Should Read and Why?
Constituents in education at all levels From Board of Directors to teachers
Alignment of organization on initiatives key to student learning
Professional Learning Community model is a paradigm shift in pedagogy
References Clawson, J. G. (2012). Level three leadership: Getting
below the surface (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
DuFour, R., & Eaker, R. (1998). Professional learning communities at work: Best practices for enhancing student achievement. Bloomington, IN: National Educational Service.
DuFour, R., & Marzano, R. J. (2011). Leaders of learning: How district, school, and classroom leaders improve student achievement. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree.
Kouzes, J., & Posner, B. (2007). The leadership challenge (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
References (cont’d) McMillan J. H., & Hearn, J. (2008). Student self-assessment:
The key to stronger student motivation and higher achievement. Educational Horizons (87)1, 40-49. Retrieved from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ezproxylocal.library.nova.edu/PDFS/EJ815370.pdf
Northouse, P. G. (2012). Introduction to leadership (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
O’Connor, K. (2007). A repair kit for grading: Fifteen fixes for broken grades. Portland, OR: ETS Assessment Training Institute.
O’Connor, K. (2013). Essentials for principals: The school leader’s guide to grading. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree.
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