"We need school and district administrators to create a culture of innovation where teachers and students can bring new ideas, new tools and new ways of thinking to the subjects we have at hand and be rewarded for their innovation. When that happens -- when teacher learning through non-traditional means is valued -- then we can a) expect to really see change and b) hold teachers accountable when they don't. Until that day, we will see the early adopters and the risk-takers bring new ideas to bear on the classroom, but I don't think we'll see wide-spread adoption of any tools at any rate faster than general society."
--Chris Lehman, Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia.
Chris is an award-winning educational technologist who has taken his views on the potential of new teaching and learning tools to turn around the decline of our schools into his work at SLA. I will be spending this week catching up on his blog archives. Want to join me? Visit Practical Theory -- A View from the Classroom. Last one to understand it all is a rotten egg...
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Hi Scott,
Thanks for the mention... going to T+L next month? Want to find time for a cup of coffee?
-- Chris
Hey, would love to, though not planning to make the conference. I may get down there for a day, though. You presenting? I have to admit that I sort of blow my annual travel opportunity every year at NECC :)
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