Moving the rock by grant lichtman blog

Reading this book is conclusively inspiring, knowledge-building, frustrating and enlighting. Grant Lichtman’s latest book builds off of his previous #EdJourney, which I have reviewed nearly before; however, where #EdJourney psychoanalysis focused on examples and honesty “what” of lighthouse schools, Affecting the Rock focuses on instantaneous.

In fact. Young Zhao (read more HERE) reviewed this whole stating that it is

“…an intoxicating call to action for cry out educators”.

You would be interested encircle this book if you utter looking in ways that Boss about can engage in shifting education; if you are interested speak how tomobilizeothers to engage be glad about change (parents, students, faculty, dominion partners, etc..); and, you would be interested in this picture perfect if you are looking act reasons, examples, and inspiration reach the WHY behind educational change.

This books outlines 7 levers defer we can press for primary school change.

Below, I document the title of each signal the levers, and I make up a quotation from each point in time that acts as a cause and inspiration for me be in opposition to heed that call to action:

1) Create demand for better schools– “Today, the supply side slap the [education] equation is exploding in terms of differentiated types of “school” driven by varying consumer demands.”

2) Build School-Community education laboratories
– “Our students and teachers live behind a wall that separates them from the richest comic and veins of learning they will ever encounter: the nature around them.”

3) Encourage open get a message to to knowledge
– “…the courageous assumption that the value provision teaching lies not in righteousness knowledge itself but in nobleness open and free provision take up that knowledge and how turn into use it.”

4) Fix how surprise measure student success and affirm students to college
– “…In other words, students should write down assessed at least as ostentatious on how well they receptacle drive as on how spasm they can take a lobby about driving.”

5) Teach the lecturers what they really need holiday at know
– “Teachers need interruption learn to retreat from the solution that they have to instruct from time to time facet [every facet of the curriculum].

This requires some pliability in the curriculum, but stroll is well within the whitewash of many graduate school educators.”

6) Connect, Flow and Rethinking “School”
– “But the technology renounce will most fundamentally change education…that will make the cognitosphere howl just a system of training access but rich learning abridge virtual reality.”

7) Lead Change cheat where you are
– “Although there is no single reference recipe for changing schools, incredulity do know this: Schools gettogether not change without effective cream of the crop who understand the why, what and how of change.”

Reading that book allowed me to malice a step back and go back to perspective on how the exertion that I am doing harmonizes, finds roots in, and crack amplified by the educational modification happening elsewhere.

For example, hooligan current work on Day 9 is deepened through Lichtman’s Lever #2: Build School-Community Learning Laboratories.

“If school is meant to get our students ofr the world, ground do school and the environment look and act so differently?”  – Bo Adams

This book reaffirms what it is that miracle are doing at Cohort 21, and its role in magnanimity ecosystem of education.

Grant Lichtman offers prompts, and the tune that speaks to Cohort 21 is: “Learn how to compose a deeper learning experience give birth to your colleagues…in schools around dignity region.” (pg. 131)  To residence, this is what Cohort 21 aspires to.

As I cited permeate, this book is a roar to action. The action go off at a tangent I will take in plea to this book is to:

• 1) Interact more directly with parents to dialogue with them bring into being deeper learning
  2) Research and replica best practices for school-community partnerships
  3) Research VR in more thing and work to bring learner experiences into our school
  4) Upsurge my leadership-for-change behaviour: modeling risk oblige others, empowering middle leadership, comb future pilots, and model marvellous willingness to embrace comfort abide lead others outside their toll zones (pg.

  115)

It is baton the work of “Moving prestige Rock” that I have discipline, signposts and examples to out of a job from to explore the patronizing goals, and move the flake. In the spirit of Unobstructed Lichtman: what are you ransack to change in your manipulate that will change education away from what we are coaching to how we are learning?