Has the time come when we should and can re-draft the job description of the principal/head of school? Yes and yes. Last week I was working on job descriptions for the founding faculty and principal of Design 39 Campus in Poway. The faculty job description is extremely forward leaning and I recommend school leaders look [...]
Outstanding professional development and collegial interaction just got a whole lot closer to your door. I am so excited and honored to announce a groundbreaking partnership between The Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence and EduCon 2.6 hosted at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, this coming January 24-25! Just a tad of background: last year during [...]
I am on a "what does Google have to share with a K12 school" kick. Today, via a Tweet from IDEO, I saw this post from David Garvin of the Harvard Business School with a summary of the semi-annual feedback that Google managers get from their direct reports. Check it out. What can schools learn from [...]
Last fall my EdJourney took me to 64 schools via 10,000 miles in my Prius. This fall it was six cross country round trip flights in seven weeks, with many stops along the way, to work and learn with something like 1,500 teachers, students, administrators, and parents who care deeply about the future of our [...]
For those of you who don't follow me on Twitter or who missed the tweet, I want to proudly direct you to a blog written by my daughter on the subject of bullying. Cassidy is a member of the US National Women's volleyball team, and when she is not competing for USA Volleyball or professional [...]
In a series of short posts and videos from Fast Company, we see how Google is using space to create collaborative working and learning environments. I watched several of these, and see enormous parallels to how we can transform the K-12 learning process by re-imagining the use of physical space. Here are some of my [...]
The other day Kathy Chin Leong published a review of what Google's chief social evangelist, Gopi Kallayil, calls Google’s Nine Principles of Innovation. I tweeted out the post (as did others) and I know many of my followers linked to it. A major section of my upcoming book will discuss how key elements of innovation [...]
One of the pleasures of research is to observe longitudinal change; revisiting a school from time to time provides that window. It was my pleasure to visit the campus of Colorado Academy for the third time in just over a year, and to see evidence of some of the courageous decisions they have made about [...]
Here is the question that education leaders should be screaming to each other and to the world: what is the business of school? For millennia, the business (some of my colleagues think we should not use the word business with respect to education; replace it with purpose if you like) of schools has been to [...]
I am so happy, honored, and to announce that I have signed a contract to publish my manuscript covering my travels and work of the last year with Jossey-Bass Publishers! To be honest, I had never given a lot of thought to who publishes the books I read. But when I started to reach out [...]