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I tend to put this video in every group I join. The message is simple yet powerful. media type="youtube" key="hazitrxzhPk" height="315" width="420" align="center"

** Some links I think are worth visiting: ** **3 Practices for 21st Century School Leaders -** In an interview with James Bellanca, education scholar Linda Darling-Hammond clearly delineates 3 practices administrators must engage in to bring our schools into the 21st century. (The interview can be found in the book 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn.) ** Good Leadership Skills **-Good leadership skills are vital:Highly successful companies achieve and maintain such prominence because of the way in which they are **managed ** and **led ** – not because of their strategy, finances, or marketing (if you don’t agree, I invite you to read this short article: "[|Leadership is first among equals] "). José Luis Romero www.Skills2Lead.com Overcome Resistance To Change December 2011

==What Does Learning From Mistakes Do To Your Brain? == by Larry Ferlazzo - A new study has just been published that sheds more light on what learning does to the brain and, more specifically, what learning from mistakes does to it. It appears to be a very significant study that reaches insights that I believe are very important to communicate to students. I’ll be preparing a lesson plan about it, and will share it on the blog.

Education Week: Why Wrong Is Not Always Bad Alina Tugend says that in Japan a student can be asked to work out a math problem in front of the whole class for a healthy period of time—say, 12 minutes—even if he is doing it wrong. The teacher might ask him to explain why he came up with his answer and then might turn to the whole class and ask who made similar mistakes. And unlike in an American class, students are far more likely to acknowledge their own misunderstandings. Alina Tugend writes the ShortCuts column for The New York Times. Her book, Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong, was published in March by Riverhead. She can be reached on Twitter at @atugend or at [|www.alinatugend.com] .