This was the first year of the leadership bootcamp at ISTE, with help from TIE Colorado. Not the best use of everyone’s time, but not a bad first year. Chris Lehmann’s (blog) lunch address was worth the day in itself. Most of the sessions in the three tracks were focused on professional learning networks, or some variation thereof, and there was significant overlap between all of the sessions. And as usual, there was plenty of do as I say and not as I do.
Here are the nuggets from Chris’s lunch address, though, which I thought were very valuable and worth repeating:
Angelo Patri
Innovative educator early 1900s. Look into what he was up to
Education not training
Citizens not workers
Responsibility instead of accountability
Innovation not change
Technology like oxygen
Ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible
Neil Postman – check him out
Read Dewey again. Just do it
What’s good not what’s new
Empower teachers and students
Students should sit on every panel making divisions about the school
Not how will we fix schools but what do we want them to be
Focus on the middle third
Not me making you better but you and me making us better
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