If you followed my blog during the middle of February you had a chance to share in some of the remarkable learning experiences of a group of 14 high school students from Francis Parker School in San Diego on our two-week trip in the rural Philippines. My EdJourney last fall was about finding unique, innovative [...]
The conflagration grows, and I could not be happier to be amongst the flame-throwers. The questions now: how quickly will the fires catch? Will they reach the places that we densely inhabit, or die out on the prairies, largely unnoticed? Will the steady monsoon of inertia drown them out, not because monsoons have ill will [...]
I did two things last week that, just a few years ago, I could not have imagined. I spoke to a group of teachers gathered in Philadelphia, without leaving my dining room table. And they were math teachers and the subject was the Art of Questioning. Why the sense of breakthrough? First, I was lousy [...]
Here is an idea that cropped up four times in the last three days, an idea I have spread since early in my EdJourney last fall, and it deserves a separate shout-out of its own. I truly believe it may represent the least expensive way to dramatically embrace the core of what we call educational [...]
Those of you who have been following my blog remember posts on The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Potomac. MD. They have created a partnership with the Neuro-Education Initiative at Johns Hopkins and have really committed to integrating the latest research on how the brain works into their [...]
Hopefully those of you who followed my EdJourney around the country this fall are also following Tom Little, Head of Park Day School in Oakland, CA on his tour of the country as he visits progressive schools. I found his blog via a tweet from Jonathan Martin, and just had a chance to catch up [...]
If you are a thought leader in education, or want to help your team to become better thought leaders, this post is rich, free, easy professional development for all! Send it along to team members and suggest they start following the blogs and tweets of people in this post and they will immediately be linked [...]
Here is a thought experiment that can inform the leading education question of our time. Take a random group of students from three countries: China, the U.S., and the Philippines. All three groups spend long hours in school and take objective exams which will, to a large extent, determine their access to higher education. Replay [...]
What is the value of $2? Is it 1/3rd of a fancy cup of Starbucks coffee? Half a Big Mac in Los Angeles or 1/5th of a Big Mac in Zurich? Is it 200 pennies that one person will step over from time to time or 200 pennies that others will fight to find and [...]
This week I had the chance to talk with David Monaco (@dmonaco), Head at Parish Episcopal in Dallas. He used a phrase that I am going to totally steal and promote and want to give him credit first. He said "I want to get my faculty up into the jet stream" of what is going [...]