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Barking Dogs and Barking Dogs Who Bite
When folks from the school community are expressing their concerns around your initiative, you need to decide quickly if they simply need to be listened to, or if additional action… Read more
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Dealing with Controversy Requires the Right Mindset and Temperment
Ignoring the situation will not make controversy go away and will likely make it worse. What to do? How should we react? Read more
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School Change Generates Controversy
School Change can generate quite a bit of angst and controversy among the school community. Read more
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MLTI is not a Tech Buy or Commodity. It’s a Learning Initiative.
A recent “Concept Draft” bill came to Maine’s Legislative Education Committee to make the Maine Learning Technology Initiative “more cost effective.” It greatly misunderstands MLTI. Read my testimony to the… Read more
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Maine Learning Technology Framework
The Maine Learning Technology Framework describes the key elements and components needed to achieve the greatest learning benefit from a district’s technology investment. The Framework is intended to support teachers,… Read more
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Are We Talking Technology or Are We Talking Learning
We will never be successful having our technology help improve student learning if we continue to primarily discuss the technology. Our technology conversations must focus on the kinds of learning… Read more
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Let’s Focus on the Learning
As I have moved through the state and talked with educators about learning through technology, including while working with MLTI (the Maine Learning Technology Initiative), too often the conversations focused… Read more
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Focus on 6 High-Impact Motivation Strategies
Teachers struggle to reach seemingly unmotivated students. It is true that the degree to which students are “self motivated” is a key factor of student academic success, and it is… Read more
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Working With A Diverse Staff: The Complete Series
This series is for school leaders working on implementing large-scale, learning-focused school change. Your success depends not just on your technical knowledge about the initiative, but also how well you understand… Read more
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Another Adventure; Same Mission
Learn about my new job with GEAR UP Maine and how we’re helping schools not only create a culture for post-secondary education, but support their work with Proficiency-based Education. Read more
The Multiple Pathways Blog has moved to mikemuir.us!
I’ve been writing for years, via the MultiplePathways blog and the More Verbs blog, about motivating disengaged students, middle level education, learning through technology, and leadership for school change. All those writings have been brought together at mikemuir.us.
Top Motivation & Learning Posts
- Kindling Fires of Curiosity
- Focus on 6 High-Impact Motivation Strategies
- What Makes for a Good Learning Experience?
- The Good and Bad of Extrinsic Motivation
- Tone of Voice Matters (In Surprising Ways)
- Engaging Tasks
Top Leadership for Change Posts
Top Learning with Technology Posts
- Maine Learning Technology Framework
- Are We Talking Technology or are we Talking Learning?
- Not All At Once – Phases of Implementing Technology For Learning
Category List
- Advantage2014 – Auburn iPads
- Avoiding "Lock It/Block It"
- Branding and Buzz
- Burning Platform
- Classroom Management for Tech
- Curriculum Content & Organization
- Customized Learning
- Definition of Success and Measure
- Distributed PD Project
- Doing 1to1 Right
- Early Childhood Education
- Engaging Tasks
- Focus on the Learning
- Food For Thought
- Formative Feedback
- Funding
- Great Teachers
- Higher Order Thinking
- Ineffective Motivation
- Instruction for Foundational Knowledge
- Inviting Schools
- It Just Works: Devices
- It Just Works: Managed Software
- It Just Works: WiFi
- Lead4Change
- Leadership
- Learning as Desired Outcome
- Learning By Doing
- Learning Progress Management
- Learning-Centered Access
- Leveraging Learning Institute
- Living More Verbs
- Managing Ed Tech
- Managing School Change
- Micro-credentials
- Middle Level Education
- Misc.
- MLTI
- Motivation
- Multiple Pathways
- Policies & Procedures
- Professional Development
- Professional Learning
- Project-Based Learning
- Projects4ME
- Real World Connections
- School Structures
- Setting Expectations
- Shared Leadership
- Shared Vision
- Shared Vision for Learning
- Student Learning
- Student Motivation & Engagement
- Teacher Practice
- Technology as Tool For Learning
- Technology for Applying Knowledge
- Technology for Assessment
- Technology for Foundational Knowledge
- Technology for Home/School Connection
- Technology for Learning
- Technology Policies and Leadership
- Technology Resource Management
- Technology to Personalize Learning
- Uncategorized
- Voice & Choice
Mike Muir 