“Great systems … may facilitate great learning, but it’s the design and execution that will make it engaging and effective.” ~Julian Stodd, Julian Stodd’s Learning Blog, 1/4/2016
~~Applies to peaceful leadership practices too.
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“Great systems … may facilitate great learning, but it’s the design and execution that will make it engaging and effective.” ~Julian Stodd’s Learning Blog, 1/4/2016
Applies to Peaceful Leadership practices too…#PeaceSchema
On the importance of a campus Professional Learning Community
“A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is a group of teachers or a cohort within a school that ‘ …exists to bring about some innovation and change directly related to improving learner outcomes’ (Harris & Jones, 2015, 15). PLCs can provide the environment for teachers to hear colleagues’ experiences, insights, and ideas, creating a school culture focused on collective growth.
Research from Ireland indicates that Continuous Professional Development (CPD) should encourage teachers to share and learn alongside one another (Harford Citation2010), supporting the inclusion of PLCs at all schools. PLCs support a school culture in which the values and beliefs of teachers are shared in a trusting environment helping to develop growth in the school.” ~ Porcenaluk, O’Neachtain, & Connolly, (2023) in Reimagining a framework for teachers’ continuous professional development during curriculum reform.
Harford, J. (2010). “Teacher Education Policy in Ireland and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century.” European Journal of Teacher Education 33 (4): 349–360. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2010.509425.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®], [Google Scholar]
Harris, A, and M Jones, M. (2015). “Beyond Four Walls?: Professional Learning Communities within and Between Schools.” Australian Educational Leader 37 (4): 10–12.[Google Scholar]
Porcenaluk, S., O’Neachtain, A., & Connolly, C. (2023). Reimagining a framework for teachers’ continuous professional development during curriculum reform. Irish Educational Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03323315.2023.2250765 [Taylor & Francis online].
“Unfortunately, in Ireland, principals have not shown a high level of involvement in the professional growth of teachers. A survey of teachers in Ireland reported that 43% never received feedback from their principal (OCED 2010)…lack of engagement [due to lack of feedback from principals] may indirectly signal to teachers that continual reflection and growth in daily practice are not significant to principals. Building positive relationships with constructive feedback and praise can positively affect teachers’ self-efficacy, as indicated in the Teaching and Learning International Survey (OECD 2010). Principals should send the message to teachers that sustained learning is necessary, motivate teachers to engage with Continuous Professional Development (CPD), and value teachers’ professional growth. Ensuring teachers are empowered to learn and grow as professionals is key to successful curriculum reform.” ~Porcenaluk, O’Neachtain & Connolly, 2023
1/2 – Peaceful Leadership strategies~”Ensuring teachers are empowered to learn and grow as professionals is key to successful curriculum reform.” ~Porcenaluk, O’Neachtain & Connolly, 2023, Reimagining a framework for teachers’ continuous PD during curriculum reform#PeaceSchemapic.twitter.com/KPuvPD9iev
Porcenaluk, S., O’Neachtain, A., & Connolly, C. (2023).
Reimagining a framework for teachers’ continuous professional development during curriculum reform. Irish Educational Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03323315.2023.2250765
“We in this country, in this generation, are– by destiny rather than choice – the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. Weask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all timethe ancient vision of peace on earth, goodwill toward men…“That must always be our goal – and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago, ‘Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.’”
~ President John F. Kennedy, from a speech not delivered, November 22, 1963
What Thanksgiving wouldn’t be complete without Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
“I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, …, to set apart and observe the last Thursday
of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I
recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him …, they do also, with humble penitence for
our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans,
mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the
interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with
Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.” ~October 3, 1863
Happy Independence Day from Hillsdale College!Our nation’s history is unique with a heritage of liberty spanning two centuries. Over the years, the American people have achieved so much, all beginning with the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” ~Patrick Henry, 1736 -1779
Happy Thanksgiving… What Thanksgiving wouldn’t be complete without Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, …, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him …, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.”~October 3, 1863
