Flip communication for instant impact—and real results for students!
Break away from the old ways of communication and revolutionize leadership and communication at your school. Use the principles of connectedness and flipped learning to engage stakeholders—teachers, administrators, and parents—digitally, so they’re ready for engaging and productive discussions when you meet in person. Featuring action steps, reflections, and ‘connected moments, ‘ plus more resources online, this book shows you how flipped leadership:
- Makes the school community visible to parents
- Creates authentic staff meetings
- Maximizes communication between parents and school
- Models effective use of technology
The Corwin Connected Educators series is your key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. Being a Connected Educator is more than a set of actions: it’s a belief in the potential of technology to fuel lifelong learning.
‘Education is plagued by outdated leadership strategies and techniques that have long lost their luster. De Witt provides a fresh look at how leaders can make use of precious time while increasing the effectiveness of meetings and communications.’
—Eric Sheninger, Principal
‘De Witt shows his emerging passion for backward design, for working from what needs to be realized to how we then attain such success, and for listening and carrying his staff with him. The book describes a principal’s road to realizing how to see the world in a different and more powerful way.’
—John Hattie, Author, Visible Learning
Cuprins
Preface
Introduction
1. Connected Learning: The Precursor to Flipped Leadership
What is Connected Learning?
Vignette About Twitter and Social Networking
Building a PLN
2. To Flip or Not to Flip…and Other Lame Excuses
Why Flip?
The Haters
Is Flipping a Passing Fad?
Flipping Out the Classroom
3. Flipped Faculty Meeting
How to Flip a Faculty Meeting
How It Leads to Better Discussions
Examples and Action Steps
4. Flipping Parent Communication
Why?
How Does It Help School Communication?
How It Helps Build a Better Home-School Partnership
5. How to Flip Communication
It′s What You Make of It
How I Do It
Despre autor
Peter De Witt (Ed.D) is the founder and CEO of the Instructional Leadership Collective. He was a K-5 teacher for 11 years and a principal for 8 years. For the last 10 years, he has been facilitating professional learning nationally, and internationally, based on the content of many of his best-selling educational books. De Witt′s professional learning relationships are a monthly hybrid approach that includes both coaching and the facilitating workshops on instructional leadership and collective efficacy. Additionally, in the Summer of 2021, De Witt created a year long on-demand, asynchronous coaching course through Thinkific where he has created a community of learners that include k-12 educators in leadership positions. De Witt′s work has been adopted at the state level, university level, and he works with numerous school districts, school boards, regional networks, ministries of education around North America, Australia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the U.K. Peter writes the Finding Common Ground column for Education Week, which has been in circulation since 2011. In 2020 De Witt co-created Education Week′s A Seat At the Table where he moderates conversations with experts around the topics of race, gender, sexual orientation, research, trauma and many other educational topics. Additionally, De Witt is the Series Editor for the Connected Educator Series (Corwin Press) and the Impact Series (Corwin Press) that include books by Viviane Robinson, Andy Hargreaves, Pasi Sahlberg, Yong Zhao and Michael Fullan. He is the 2013 School Administrators Association of New York State′s (SAANYS) Outstanding Educator of the Year, and the 2015 Education Blogger of the Year (Academy of Education Arts & Sciences), and sits on numerous advisory boards. Peter is the author, co-author or contributor of numerous books. Click on title to purchase. They include: Dignity for All: Safeguarding LGBT Students