KA Leadership, 1/19/09

I've been very busy with Lee's KA on Leadership. Also trying to get a meeting to discuss results from my Community College survey. Logistics...

Read several more reports for my Systems paper that came out of the Leadership class. I did a mind map on this one:



Benchmarking for Success: Ensuring U.S. Students Receive a World-Class Education. (2008). Washington,DC: National Governors Association.

I have also been reading articles by Gloria Ladson-Billings which is my assignment to research in the Leadership KA:

Ladson-Billings, G. (1998). Teaching in dangerous times: Culturally relevant approaches to teacher assessment. The Journal of Negro Education, 67(3), 255.

Ladson-Billings, G. (2006). From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools. Educational Researcher, 35(7), 3.

Ladson-Billings, G. (2007). Pushing Past the Achievement Gap: An Essay on the Language of Deficit. The Journal of Negro Education, 76(3), 316.

Ladson-Billings, G. (1997). It doesn't add up: African American students' mathematics achievement. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 28, 697-708.

I watched a few videos online of Ms. Ladson-Billings speaking and also looked up bios on her.

She refers to teacher standards set by the the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. So I downloaded from their website the piece called "What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do". I plan to read that also.

Haven't finished the reading, but will do mind maps soon on these.

KA Systems 1/2/09

The survey results are in for the CA community college! Still waiting to speak with administration and deans, but the results are very interesting. Now I can finish my systems theory paper. Started to think about the focus for my paper as I finish the last few readings. Will definately focus on Basic Skills problems in CA colleges and particularly in Math, and probably focus on Algebra and skills leading up to that class. Ended up downloading a lot of government reports this week based on the AERA Journal titled "Special Issue on Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel", December 2008.

Capra, F. (1983). The turning point : science, society, and the rising culture. Toronto New York: Bantam Books.



Faulkner, L. R., Benbow, C. P., Ball, D. L., Boykin, A. W., Clements, D. H., Embretson, S., et al. (2--9). The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel: U.S. Department of Education.

Lee, J., Grigg, W. S., & Dion, G. S. (2007). The Nation’s Report Card: Mathematics 2007 (No. NCES 2007494): U.S. Department of Education.

Evan, A., Gray, T., & Olchefske, J. (2006). The Gateway to Student Success in Mathematics and Science: American Institutes for Research.

Baldi, S., Jin, Y., Skemer, M., Green, P. J., & Herget, D. (2007). Highlights from PISA 2006: Performance of U.S. 15-Year-Old Students in Science and Mathematics Literacy in an International Context (No. NCES 2008016): U.S. Department of Education.

Hilton, M. (2008). Skills for Work in the 21st Century: What Does the Research Tell Us? The Academy of Management Perspectives, 22(4), 8.