1. Effective Leadership
for Today’s Learners
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mushon/282287572/in/faves-14579369@N04/

8. What We’ll Do

9. I want you to learn the specific
challenges facing your school
community today,

10. so that

11. so that
in the long run, you
will be able to

12. on your
own

13. create innovative
and collaborative
solutions to
overcome them.

14. My Bias

15. First Universal Issue:
Misconception Analysis

16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/-bast-/349497988/in/faves-14579369@N04/

17. Deceptively Native
http://i.imgur.com/IVA1N.jpg

18. 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,"

19. Innovative Thinkers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasoneppink/80772661/in/faves-14579369@N04/

22. I am wrong.

23. I am wrong.
Often.

24. Fear of Acting

25. It Begins With You
http://www.flickr.com/photos/humanoide/138782217/

26. Second
Universal
Issue:
Listening
to What
Good
Data Tells
Us
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/2966535155/in/faves-14579369@N04/

27. Things we analyzed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/puntodevista/112911490/in/faves-14579369@N04/

28. Transfer
wasn’t
happening

29. Analysis,
Synthesis,
and Creation

30. Writing with voice

31. An expanding
definition of
literacy

32. Literacy...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_television/3812964711/in/faves-14579369@N04/

33. Allowed us to provide
students with access to
skills that Colleges are
clamoring for.

36. Kill the Mothership
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jongorr/203440092/

37. http://www.flickr.com/photos/superkimbo/3318904030/

38. Third Universal Issue:
Consumables

39. In school, where do we get our
word intake from?

40. 34 Gigabytes

41. Image Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pointofdesign/2371903317/

42. x4
Image Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pointofdesign/2371903317/

45. Codes

46. Codes

47. Codes

49. traditional?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/austinevan/1225274637/

50. http://www.flickr.com/photos/penmachine/98352836/
New?

52. Strategies
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76074333@N00/317952268/in/faves-14579369@N04/

53. Move Cheese
Lesson Plan Scenario
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nics_events/2349632625/

54. We have to work
as a faculty to
create novel
problems

55. http://www.flickr.com/photos/secondtoughest/3211201182/in/faves-14579369@N04/

56. Challenge People’s
Belief Systems
http://www.flickr.com/photos/secondtoughest/3211201182/in/faves-14579369@N04/

57. Culture

59. The
Embedded
Journalist
Catch and
Reward
Competence
http://www.flickr.com/photos/niclas/3548940/

60. Give to
Get

61. 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.

62. Point to Your Mission in Action
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shutter/105497713/

63. Measure Your Melon Mission
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amalthya/274662591/

64. Be the lead learner,
because we need you to be.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benwerd/185925362/

65. What is your next
step after today?
How will you create
change?
Todaysmeet.com/techleaders

66. Patrick Higgins, Jr.
Orangehiggins@gmail.com