Articles of Interest 1/9/2017

Leadership:

• Love the unicorn infographic
• Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. This is incredibly important in any workplace environment and helps you to manage conflict and relationships. 

Do You Have These 7 Important Leadership Qualities?

Guiding vision, passion, and integrity are well known leadership traits. But there are lesser known leadership traits, as well-in fact, some historically have been perceived as weaknesses. These hidden traits can be developed and nurtured to help further your career and your role as a leader, at work, in your community, or in life in general.

Digital Footprint: 

• Who are you? Who would you like to be?
• What would you do if one of these social networks deleted or moved the posts and content you shared?

Three steps to identify and develop your digital identity

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut Web literate individuals have a multitude of opportunities to utilize digital spaces and tools to create versions of our identities. We can create and host our own websites to share and archive our work.

Professional Development:

• Develop and communicate a clear, cohesive vision of personalized learning
• Be bold in vision and measured in implementation
• Provide increased compensation for personalized learning leadership roles and plan for sustainability
• Invest in a comprehensive and versatile professional learning strategy that emphasizes instructional practice and skilled coaching
• Strategically engage principals at every stage of planning and implementation

Personalizing the Learning Experience: The New Human Capital Landscape - Personalizing the Learning Experience: Insights from Future Ready Schools

Through the Race to the Top - District (RTT-D) program, the U.S. Department of Education invested in innovative approaches to personalized learning. Sixty-eight school districts, district consortia, and charter school networks adopted personalized learning approaches that called for a system-wide transformation that drove changes in all areas of district operation, including the human capital decisions that underpin a systemic change of this magnitude.