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ICI®
Integrated Curriculum and Instruction
Sustainable
Leadership
Quality Teaching
Student Achievement
Our children are already
global citizens. They
are children of the digital age. They adapt to changing technology
with ease. Just ask any parent whose child is clamoring for the
latest MP3 player or cell-phone. Children in kindergarten today will
be inventing the tools of tomorrow. And invention is the product of
creative teamwork and "thinking outside the box."
To help our children navigate information to create new knowledge,
we need to spark their imaginations. read more...
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Sustainable Leadership
Leaders and schools generally fall along a continuum from dependency
to autonomy. Autonomous schools and their leaders possess high
degrees of consciousness, community or systems thinking, precision,
flexibility, and efficacy.
(See Bocchino, conscious Leadership and selected Region3 workshop
materials).
Leaders who are conscious interpret all kinds of data or input and
discern the consequences, both intended and unintended, of their
decisions.
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Quality Teaching
Teaching is decision-making. In fact, researchers
(Hunter, Joyce and Showers, Marzano, Garmston, Costa et al) define
teaching as “a constant stream of conscious decisions which when
implemented, affect the probability of learning.” Only the teacher
can make informed choices about what to teach and how to teach it.
A quality teacher makes more diagnoses in any given day than a
physician.
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Student Achievement
It is the expectation that every student pre-K to
12 will successfully meet promotional standards and graduate from
high school fully able to pursue a wide variety of choices in a
democratic society. No excuses. And, each student is unique in his
or her talents and inclinations. Each possesses what
Howard Gardner
calls multiple intelligences to different degrees.
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