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=**Summer Leadership Academy_2012**=


 * Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I will start reviewing the wiki this Thursday... I was finishing classes, and then left for a conference! There are 2-3 students who have e-mailed me to let me know they are finished and that their response is ready to be evaluated... I haven't forgotten you! Now that I am back in Saginaw, I will start reviewing this week.**


 * For those of you who are still working, just let me know if you have any questions, and remember that I am really encouraging you to get done sooner rather than later! Finally, just a gentle reminder not to forget to send me an e-mail when your work is ready to review. Hope you are enjoying your time in this wiki space!**

Play Area : Click on this link to go in and explore, and play within this wikispace! Feel free to create additional links, if you wish!

Hi everyone,

Welcome to our summer leadership academy! This is a public space where we will upload our work, share and discuss what we experienced during the day. Feel free to use hyperlinks, create a new page, be as creative as you wish! We will review criteria at the start of our session together.

Wikis in Plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Here is a link that will be continually updated on all of the presentations so far from the conference. This will help provide resources as we move forward! Lifebinder: http://www.livebinders.com/edit/index/426859

=**Credit 1 :**=

June 19th:

This is what we completed:

1. We briefly reviewed what would be required for 1 credit, 2 credits, and 3 credits.

2. After a brief response to the 1st Key Note session, we worked in groups and responded to the following three questions:


 * What are two questions you have for any of the presenters of the sessions you attended?
 * What session(s) impacted you the most so far? Why?
 * What are your next steps? (List 3) for enacting change and or leadership within your school district / community and /or classroom?

3. We then shared our group responses with attention to making connections across groups. Four key themes emerged:


 * The urgency, and challenge of taking risks.
 * The importance of looking beyond just educational contexts and building connections with businesses.
 * The necessity to foster and inspire creativity, imagination and the arts within our classroom while working within an infrastructure of standards, and a continuously "narrowing" curriculum (i.e., content driven).
 * Next steps... what do we do? How do we move forward?

I would like to invite you to review the following u-tube video in relation to innovation and educational change:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U&feature=related

This is a video based on a related lecture by Sir Ken Robinson. It provides an intriguing extension to the key note this morning, and frames much of the debate about educational change within easily accessible cartoons. At the very least, it provides yet another perspective on an increasingly complex issue! Hope you enjoy...

For anyone who attended today, you have completed credit 1. CONGRATULATIONS! I will continue to add resources, links, etc. as we move forward. I will respond to questions about payment tomorrow as the office is currently closed. However, I will be in touch as soon as possible. In the meantime, anyone who needs to contact me can find me in EN 258 and/or contact me at the following e-mail address: vvratuli@svsu.edu.

I really enjoyed meeting all of you today! Thank you for your thoughtful comments. See you tomorrow!

PS Feel free to add links, edit, build within this space. I am hoping you will use this space beyond the context of the course! Let me know if you have any questions at all!

=**Credit 2 :**=


 * More will be posted tomorrow!*

Click on the word, "Enjoy" in order to access photos from our session / responses.

Enjoy

Here are links to our articles for tomorrow. This is just for the 2 credit option. You do not have to read these tonight, but I wanted to post them so that you have then to review if you want a head start, and are completing the 2-credit option!

Article A:

Article B:

I have also included a link to some graphic organizers to consider for tomorrow! You have probably seen these before, but sometimes it is helpful to have some working examples! You don't have to do anything with these until tomorrow, but I wanted to post them in advance in case you want to take a look. I tried to include materials appropriate for administrators, secondary and elementary leaders. Feel free to add your own!

URL: http://www.lexiconsys.com/graphic_organizer.html URL: http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm URL: http://themes.pppst.com/graphic-organizers.html

Article Response

Two resources that may be helpful!

1. Multiliteracies / New Literacies Research:http://www.multiliteracies.ca/ 2. Slowmation: http://www.slowmation.com/

These are two very different research projects, with examples of projects from K-12 and in schools that include a variety of demographics, etc. If you have any questions at all about either of these projects, don't hesitate to ask!

I enjoyed working with you today! Let me know if you have questions as you move forward!

=**Credit 3**=


 * More will be posted tomorrow*

**INPUT FROM LORI PRITCHARD, Northeast Middle School Assistant Principal, Midland Public Schools:**
Two questions of any presenters of sessions? - Is there written curriculum or resources which would be helpful in providing support/guidance/professional development for teachers with regard to fostering/promoting creativity in middle school core classes? (//Sir Ken Robinson)// - What are the initial steps to creating/establishing sister schools and global/international relationships? (//Dr. Skilling)//

What sessions impacted me so far? Why? - Many sessions have impacted me. Skilling’s session will help encourage me to take risks. I’ve always been a person who likes to walk on the edge.. and this reminded me of the reasons I do this, and encouraged me to keep doing it. Incidentally, a fellow administrator, in passing conversation from the restroom, mentioned the same thing today. She said, “We have to know when to conform and when not to.. (to take the risk). That’s the definition of good leadership.” Skilling’s session fell in line with this and reassured me that I have at least the foundations of good leadership! Robinson’s session was entertaining as well as inciteful. I’m concerned about all the cuts our district (as well as other districts) continue to make despite Robinson’s comments that the arts, humanities, and music programs promote creativity and innovation. How can we continue to promote these things while keeping in line with the Michigan Merit Curriculum AND stay within the means of our budgets? We need to think differently and collaboratively within our communities.

What are your next steps (list 3) for enacting change and or leadership within NE/MPS? - I will am co-planning a "parenting seminar/conference" in the fall. This will be something new to my building (at least new in the recent past). I’m excited to inform parents of hot topics: Bullying, Drugs, Tolerating Teens, Supporting Academics, Cybersafety, Developmental Assets, etc. - I am interested to look into establishing a “sister-school” relationship with other schools in other countries. Midland is lucky in that we have a large contingency of parents who are able to financially support an exchange relationship. This would allow several students (as well as educators perhaps) to travel and to experience other cultures first hand. - I plan to work collaboratively with my colleagues to create a detailed rubric for our current evaluation tool. It will detail specific examples of how teachers can achieve "highly effective" vs. "effective" ratings on the summary page of the evaluation. (We currently use a Danielson model w/rubrics, but the new summary page is new to us this year).

__ Comment from Jill __ : Excited to be on Wiki for the first time...just wanted to try it out tonight! Great presenters & looking forward to tomorrow :)

I am so thrilled that you have already started experimenting in this space! **Vetta**