Innovation is the process of enhancing the value of an organization. In schools, if we believe that what customers will value in the future is the same as in the past, we run a real risk of becoming increasingly irrelevant as educators. How do we gauge what might have value? This is one of those [...]
When I was a little camper I learned how to build a one-match fire: light good, dry tinder and be ready to blow the sparks into a flame. That is what so many of us are doing in education, and it just does not take that much time or effort. Yesterday two small leadership teams [...]
Joined in on the always-good #satchatwc this morning, hosted by Dave Burgess. We can talk all we want about how to transform learning. Well, this just about sums it up in a picture, via Ashley Goral that was originally posted by Jessica Hagy:
This is what “school” looks like in the future. It is the start of a new year. What better time to think of a new approach to learning, not just for our students, but for ourselves as educators, as passers of the flame of interest and inquiry, not bits and bytes, to a next generation? [...]
If we always think within the frame of the known, we never get outside the frame. This holds for classrooms as well as organizations. Teachers, don't stop reading just because the word 'strategy' appears; you are strategic leaders! I was editing a chapter for my book and wanted to share this bit, prompted by school [...]
On a warm Christmas morning, my first thought is to count my blessings, thank my wide circle of friend/colleagues for the year, and wish everyone a happy return on the day...which of course I do! Then I think what I would really like for Christmas... So deep are the divides of the human experience: north [...]
In fine-tuning the chapter on creativity chapter in my upcoming book, I wanted to write about the explosion of opportunities that teachers and students now have to make that leap from consumers to creators of knowledge within their learning process. I was honored to interview Neeru Khosla this morning; Neeru is the co-founder and Executive [...]
Can your school afford to take two weeks off from normal classes and still meet your learning objectives? Most schools have trouble finding a spare 15 minutes a week in their busy schedule. Two weeks? Not possible. Yet it is, and Pomfret School is proving it right now. The entire school is taking the time [...]
I am scrolling through my Twitter feed and it is just JAMMED with pictures of engaged, excited students doing really cool things: coding, making, building, designing, filming, drawing, digging, serving, collaborating, speechifying, acting...etc. Wonderful! Now the provocateur in my comes out: how much of this is due to increased comfort of educators with Twitter and [...]
This picture pretty much says it all. Posted by Renee Beverlin on Pinterest and Tweeted via Dr. Lee-Anne Gray.