Power of Unstoppable Momentum (ePub)

Your school district can revolutionize its culture to improve student learning. This book details a simple but powerful school improvement plan for integrating educational technology, pedagogy, and deep learning that leads to lasting change. Included are real examples of districts, including Mooresville Graded School District-a lowly funded, 50 percent poverty school district in North Carolina-that attained pedagogically driven, technology-accelerated success.

Benefits

• Study how to form a strong cultural foundation that fosters learning achievement.


• Examine why allocating human capital, social capital, and decisional capital for school improvement in the district plan is essential for sustaining learning achievement.


• Discover the new thinking and actions that must underpin the use of instructional technology in order to achieve the goal of improved education for all students.


• Study eight core lessons from Mooresville Graded School District's (MGSD) journey that are essential for your education improvement plan.


• Survey encouraging cases of lasting, deep whole-system change from MGSD and six districts that learned from MGSD's example and are using technology in the classroom.

Table of Contents:
About the Authors
Introduction: Unstoppable Forces
Chapter 1: Learning Is Not About the Technology
Chapter 2: Deep Learning
Chapter 3: Social Capital
Chapter 4: Human Capital
Chapter 5: Decisional Capital
Chapter 6: Lessons From MGSD
Chapter 7: Emerging Models
Conclusion
References
Index