My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (January 3, 2016)

“It turns out that the secret to a high-performing team lies less in the individuals that make it up and more in the wider team dynamics: “Who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions.” High-performing teams, they found, almost always displayed five characteristics:”

From Richard Byrne – VexTab Music Notation is a Google Documents Add-on that lets you write music notation in Google Documents.

From Getting Smart – Facing a deficit in technology integration and innovative practices, Tolles Career & Technical Center (Plain City, Ohio) embarked on an initiative in 2014 called [RE]Think Tolles. While this initiative focused on several areas, technology and innovation took center stage and led to redesigned classroom spaces, an iPad 1:1 program, an incubator called The Launch Lab, and an internal grant program encouraging “entrepreneurial” thinking.

Great take by Hugh McGuire with strategies to get you reading more and managing your distractions

A great list of RTI resources from Edutopia

A list worthy of review from Harold Jarche

Annual report on the state of digital learning

From Larry Ferlazzo – There has been a lot written about The Every Student Succeeds Act (The Best Resources On The No Child Left Behind Reauthorization Process), though not as much on how it will affect English Language Learners.

For seven years, the educators of the Sanborn Regional School District have openly shared their journey of transition from a traditional to a competency-based education system.

#Superintendents can use social media to their advantage. Learn how. @patrickmlarkin https://t.co/NvayRGDFsR https://t.co/RQStO27xSU

From Peter Greene – “The state has specialized in not-even-trying-to-be-sneaky handoff of power to men who have far more interest in corporate education privateering than in serving the families, taxpayers and voters of Massachusetts.”

From Harvard Business Review

More great stuff from Larry Ferlazzo

From Larry Ferlazzo

From Getting Smart