Last week I posted Part 1 of the evolving role of a school or district admin leadership team. I want to dig deeper into this: How might we really amplify the power of this team of leaders? Think about your admin leadership team and your team meetings. Like any group within an organization, your admin [...]
I had the honor of addressing about 100 public school superintendents last week, just as we were unpacking copies of Thrive for all of them! (If you have not seen it yet, I have updated the home page of my website, where you can click a link for a free download of the Introduction). They [...]
Danvers Fleurry at TalentedApp reminded me last week that behavioral change is almost always a function of courage. We don't change our personal or professional behaviors, even if we cognitively know we want to, unless we have the courage to walk over that bridge. Where do we find that courage? Major sources, and probably increasingly [...]
Education is better off when we all share as much as we can. I decided to not hold anything back in my new book, THRIVE: How Schools Will Win the Education Revolution. In addition to what I hope you will find is a wealth of ideas about how to make your school or district what [...]
Last fall I realized I had an important book contained in my work of the last 3-4 years; I just needed to write it. K-12 education is undergoing a period of rapid evolution unlike any we have seen in at least 150 years. Some schools, public and private, will rise to meet this evolutionary challenge; [...]
What does it mean for a student to go to a "college prep"-focused school today? In a provocative, well-researched, and often disturbing article in the New York Times, leading author Paul Tough takes a deep dive into the profound challenges that most colleges and universities face in balancing the desire for diversity and the reality [...]
Our colleague Miguel Guhlin started a good discussion on Twitter and in his blog post about so-called innovative practices in K-12. Miguel was prompted by an article by Mike Schmoker that questions if "innovations" like design thinking and makerspaces actually improve learning more than time-tested, research-proven activities. My response: Yes, and! By definition, innovation leads [...]
In my new book, THRIVE: How Schools Will Win the Education Revolution, there is an appendix with a list of schools that I have curated over the last five years, schools that "do school differently". I offer this as a "starter kit" for my readers, schools with which you can share ideas and igniters of [...]
One of our newest and most profound challenges as educators is navigating the poorly charted waters of truth and falsity in our media stream. Of course, there have been news sources of questionable repute in the past, but the volume and rapidity of the media stream, both creating, and as a result of, increased political [...]
Like many of you, I have taken the summer off from at least part of my "day job": blogging. I led several summer institutes and am getting my new book finalized for delivery in October, but I got lazy here on the blog front. And that is sort of going to continue as I ease [...]
