Assessment for Learning

Assessment for Learning (AfL) strategies: What are they?

How to develop a good learning portfolio?

How to support higher ability students with the use of AfL strategies?

What every school leader needs to know about RTI (ASCD, 2010)

What is RTI?
Its representative structure:
1. assessment process
2. tiers of intervention
3. problem-solving process

When everything changes: change everything

Walsch, N.D. (2010). When everything changes: change everything. London: Hodder.

Why do we make changes?
From ground zero or something else?
How can we make changes? It's all about how you view and what you move/do for that change.

Schools as curriculum agencies

Schools as curriculum agencies: asian and european perspectives on school-based curriculum development (2010)
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Leading in a culture of change (M. Fullan, 2001)

Fullan, M. (2001). Leading in a culture of change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Five core components leading to sustainable change:
1. moral purpose
2. understanding of the process
3. building relationships
4. knowledge building
5. coherence making

Leadership for change: slow learning + learning in context

Effective/ineffective leadership: be judged by what leadership you produce in others.

Chapter 9 Distributed leadership: democracy or delivery? from Alma Harris (ed.) (2009) Distributed leadership: different perspectives

Democracy or delivery?
Complexity or linear development?
Which one suits the context?

Main ideas from this chapter include:
1. Networks
2. Shared targets
3. Self-evaluation
4. Local principal cooperation

You don't need a title to be a leader (Sanborn, M., 2006)

Sanborn, M. (2006). You don't need a title to be a leader. London: Random House Business Books.

The six principles of leadership:
1. self-mastery
2. focus
3. power with people
4. persuasive communication
5. execution
6. giving

Reflective question: How to be a great leader without a title?