18. “People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things
they weren't so crazy about the first time around.”
~Author Unknown
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23. “If your tests scores are
telling you 50% of the story
who’s telling the other half”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hdurnin/6281411798/
25. “Universities come to know about
things through studies,
organizations come to know
about things through reports and
people come to know about
things through stories”
Richard Axelrod
p. 112 Terms of Engagement: Changing the Way We Change Organizations
58. Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going
away. Because the word “publishing” means a
cadre of professionals who are taking on the
incredible difficulty and complexity and
expense of making something public.
That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button.
59. There’s a button that says “publish,”
and when you press it, it’s done.
102. “ When you hand someone a photo album
or a yearbook, the first thing they will do
is seek out their own picture.
Knowing that, the question is:
how often are you featuring the photo,
name, needs or wants of your customers
where everyone can see them?
” Seth Godin
110. The type of “effortless chatter” that tends to be
posted on the social site is better at tapping into
our mind’s language capabilities due to human
evolution, which prioritizes and remembers
information from social interactions.
Memory Cognition
May 2013, Volume 41, Issue 4, pp 481-489
119. “Lisa Brady, one of my favorite school superintendents,
decided not to wait for the conversation to start on its own.
She went into her community in Dobbs Ferry, New
York, and invited parents into a book study of Tony
Wagner’s The Global Achievement Gap.
Over a six-month period, she
went to parent meetings, coffees,
and other informal gatherings to
listen to what the parents
reading the book had to say
about it. They told her: We have
to change.”
128. “We speak human at home and
“professionalese” at work.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/7897347/My-
challenge-to-you-only-speak-like-a-human-at-work.html
145. Thanks, Lisa, for filling us in on the details of DF
teachers professional development. We are grateful
for the amazing teachers our daughter has
encountered so far at Springhurst. I am all for
whatever we as a district can do to invest in the
learning of this most precious resource.
I'm looking forward to seeing you again this week at
the Friday morning book chat.
Happy holidays!
Greta
146. Dear Dr. Brady -
I do understand the importance of teacher
development days, but why are they counted as
our children's school days? I believe that for our
teachers annual pay levels some summer school
hours (teachers and/or students) would not be out
of line. What are the impediments to that?
How do we start a review and evaluation of the
effectiveness of Early Dismissal days? This days
are some of the most disruptive days my children
have.
Thank you.
Sandra Merrow
147. Sandra,
Thanks for your feedback and insights. Early Dismissal Days
do count toward student attendance days and teacher PD is
handled pretty much the same way in most school districts.
We have quite a lot of summer professional development
that occurs every summer. One of the challenges is that not
all teachers can necessarily be here at the same time in the
summer which limits the work that can be done by
department or grade level teams. There is so much that
needs to be done right now because of the new APPR
requirements that necessitates teachers having time to work
together on assessments, rubrics and planning. We really do
try to do the best that we can with the limited time we have.
Dr. Brady
156. Rather than write my goal in a book, I decided to create my
own t-shirt. I have worn my t-shirt at CDNIS during staff
meetings and grade level assemblies. The response from
staff and students has been somewhat overwhelming as
many are keen to get a ‘daily’ update
Be ahttp://sites.cdnis.edu.hk/school/ls/2012/09/10/to-learn-basic-mandarin-vocabulary-and-conversational-skills/
Learner....in Public
157. Rather than write my goal in a book, I decided to create my
own t-shirt. I have worn my t-shirt at CDNIS during staff
meetings and grade level assemblies. The response from
staff and students has been somewhat overwhelming as
many are keen to get a ‘daily’ update
Be ahttp://sites.cdnis.edu.hk/school/ls/2012/09/10/to-learn-basic-mandarin-vocabulary-and-conversational-skills/
Learner....in Public