The Liberty Leadership Blog

Introducing...Brinks, my flying dog

Enjoying the sunrise on MLK Monument is the ultimate...It's such a refreshing experience. (at Washington, District of Columbia, DC, United States)

#NoShaveNovember #BeatCancer check your health

Thank our Vets for their service 🇺🇸

Your organization's culture defines you: Do you get after it or do you simply try to get through it? #thegrind

Great teachers connect students beyond standardized tests #PersonalizedPD PPD-1.eventbrite.com

This is the result when #FutureReady .@knoxschools students #ReachHigher

The PSL practice we recommend is not another layered fad. This teacher-driven practice will efficiently streamlines those learning innovations which are currently occurring in isolation. The goal is to curate/capture student learning tasks through the use of a PSL platform and share students’ application of learning. Once learning is shared, the professional conversation and cross-fertilization of ideas can become a value-add among teachers. Therefore, schools can build internal capacity based on the shared best practices by the professional staff. This one-step process helps: 1. Teacher/Principal Evaluation System (Pre-Post Conference) 2. Educators earn job-embedded continuing education graduated credit for re-licensure 3. Create a professional growth reflection tool 4. Provide evidence of authentic student learning tasks 5. Enhance community engagement 6. Demonstrate evidence of the application of the academic state content standards 7. Reduce the cost of professional development for both teachers and school districts 8. Build sustainability through shared best practices and amplifying teacher voice

#Detroit CCA high school Young Men of Excellence scholar students. http://viddy.it/l377Si

Over the years there has been heated ideological debate between teachers, policy makers, researchers and parents. Reviewing the NAEP reading assessment trend data, one can formulate a data-driven response. But, was NCLB the right thing for the academic preparation of ALL students, most notably students of color?

Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers, prescribes to the notion that success is not just about intellectual capacity. Success requires the individual to practice specific tasks for 10,000 hours in order to gain mastery. In education, we still have a vast majority of students and teachers attempting to prescribe 10,000 hours to the antiquated Education 1.0 model. Education 1.0 practice doesn’t make perfect; but, perfect Education 3.0 practice makes perfect. I comes down to the quality of the task, not just time on task. The key to accomplishing quality learning outcomes is dependent upon the rigor of the instructional tasks provided by the teacher.The typical 180 day school year, will provide students with 30 hours per week of formal instruction and 5,400 hours at the end of the school year. So, the 10,000 hour rule is easily attainable in two years of formal academic learning. Based on the current US academic performance data, we are still stuck in Education 1.0 and demonstrate limited signs of moving forward. Enhancing the learning conditions and practices takes transformational leadership and a commitment to retraining educators and learners; reboot the system.