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Learning Is Non Linear

I think, for the virtually part, everyone strives for success.  We desire to survive successful inwards our professional person also equally our personal lives.  I strived to survive the best possible main for my students, staff, as well as community.  Whether I was successful is a affair of perspective. My evaluations seemed to back upwards the fact that I powerfulness bring been.  I was far from perfect, but ever strived for constant improvement. When I reverberate upon what was accomplished during my fourth dimension leading New Milford High School I mean value many observers would consider my leadership a success based on what nosotros all accomplished together.  Our digital transformation, backed past times evidence of improved learner outcomes, has been good documented.  In the eyes of many this is success. 

As I bring transitioned into my novel work over the past times ii years equally a Senior Fellow for the International Center for Leadership inwards Education, I give-up the ghost along to ready the bar high for myself. Again, whether I am successful is opened upwards for debate. Some observers powerfulness meet the publishing of books equally an indicator of success. Others could equate keynotes inwards the same manner.  No affair what someone’s thought of success is, I tin rate y'all ane thing for sure enough – it is non a linear process. No ane goes from yell for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 to B past times next a predetermined path or script. The enquiry as well as then becomes why does school, for the virtually part, focus on a linear transition that manifests itself inwards the shape of curriculum? This is but ane event that flies inwards the aspect upwards of unleashing the talents of our students piece teaching them what success actually is. 


disruptive innovation.  We must lend a critical oculus to our pedagogy, peculiarly the agency nosotros assess as well as furnish feedback to students. It is fourth dimension for us to travel harder to upend the condition quo past times redefining success inwards learning. Are y'all alongside me?

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