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6 keys to creating confidence in your leadership

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments

According to an annual report (pdf file), Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership has identified six factors that inspired confidence in leaders in 2009:
Trust
Competence
Working for the greater good of society
Shared values
Results
Being in touch
The National Leadership Index survey also analyses people’s feelings about leadership in the following six sectors compared to each other and [...]

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Tags: Growth · Leadership · Learning

Teaching off the cuff

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments

In the future, teaching will be more about coordinating and less about planning.
Why am I passionate about Web 2.0 technologies? Because of what’s possible beyond what you may have planned for. Check out a great example of this happening here and here.

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Tags: Learning · Teaching

No, grammar is not confusing . . .

October 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Every day, my 8th graders tackle a paragraph riddled with errors and make corrections. I get these at Education World. We then go over the errors as a class.
Pretty straight forward, right?
Well, most of the time.
This was today’s unedited text:
Dedicated on October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship [...]

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