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Aligning Focus with Goals: A Good Read From Zoe Weil

In her essay for NAIS Independent School Magazine, "Solutionaries Education for a Better World",  Zoe Weil provokes us to honestly and thoughtfully answer the question “What is schooling for?”  It is a question that many of us are asking, and I want to launch off of several of her key points as real action items that [...]

Fab Lab, Flipping, Failure, and Forecasting the Future: Four Great Reads!

How fast is the world of education changing?  How hard will it be to keep up with this pace?  How will we adjust, adopt, adapt and evolve in real time when our traditions are based on months and years of discussion, evaluation, assessment, training, and strategic implementation? Here is a shotgun of radical changes that [...]

Natural Leadership: A Critical Lever for Effective Innovation

Sam Folk-Williams, Knowledge Program Manager at Red Hat, a major enterprise computing company, wrote a standout piece on leadership for the Management Innovation Exchange.  Co-authored by Jim Stikeleather and Michele Zanini, the paper proposes a “dynamic system for measuring an individual’s ‘natural leadership’.  They outline three broad areas of leadership that occur largely outside of, [...]