Insight and Outsight: 8 Strategies to Catalyze District-Wide Learning

Submitted by Judy Hanning on Wed, 2016-11-02 12:00
According to Pascal Finette, there are eight strategies that could be used to catalyze district-wide learning among the school systems. Pascal Finette says that mapping their district staff’s course through radical innovations has pushed for the look into outside traditional education resources. Pascal also says that the best strategic decisions come from paying attention to how the world is changing.

Rule Challengers Matters point. Critical thinking promoted.

The eight strategies that could be used to catalyze district-wide learning consist of many different facets. The strategies consist of spending time with students and educators, compliance-driven change, making rule challengers matter, aim for small changes and wins, invest in the time for pedagogical entrepreneurs to work, encourage horizontal networking, get outside your own boxes, and remain open to learning.
“I’ve come to understand that the best strategic decisions emerge by paying attention to how the world is changing beyond the perspectives gleaned from inside my educational community and from my own intuition. Outsight, the power or act of seeing external things clearly, also matters.”
~ Pam Moran

Key Takeaways:

1
With so many advancements in technology it is astounding that little has changed in learning environments.
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Different way educators can prepare their students for adult life.
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Why it is important to fully understand both the educators and the students in a given environment.
Read the full article here:
http://www.edutopia.org//blog/insight-outsight-catalyze-district-wide-learning-pam-moran