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Educational Leadership: Meaningful Work

Friday, September 17th, 2010

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Have you read this issue of Educational Leadership? There are so many articles that focus on what meaningful, resonant, valuable learning looks like.

Your principal is reading this issue … it’s a superb time to connect your library values to the articles in the magazine.

If you don’t subscribe, you can click through to see the table of contents. Many articles are free online.

There is so much rich conversation about how to go beyond factual recall that one could build a yearlong book study around this issue.

Browse Educational Leadership’s Social Responsibility Issue for Free

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

ASCD has made its Social Responsibility issue available for full-text, free online browsing.  Check it out here and think about how you can make connections between your administrator’s must-read journal and the dispositions of the AASL Standards.

Also good … Steven Wolk’s list of children’s books to use to promote discussion of social responsibility with students.