My readers and schools I work with are always on the lookout for high quality professional development focused on deeper learning and design-type thinking skills. So check out the video from Noble Impact, a newer group out of Arkansas. I have been in touch with Chad Williamson about their ideas and evolution for several years, [...]
Like dog years, time passes differently in schools than in the world around us. I have been thinking a LOT about what "school" will be in August of 2036 or so, which in school-time is really not that far away. Certainly five years can pass in the blink of an eye and while the world [...]
Schools do a particularly bad job of ending things before we start others. Yesterday at the last day of our Summer Institute at Tilton School, my co-facilitator Julie Wilson reminded us of the importance of endings. Some celebrate endings; one of our attendees used to work at a school that held a Viking funeral every spring [...]
I write almost exclusively in this space about education, and that will continue to be the case. This post has an element of education, but is is really about history, America, and the soul of a people who have fought against the tyranny of ideologues from both the political left and right…in the voting booth, [...]
Progressive education is alive and well in Chicago, the home of John Dewey and the first laboratory school more than 100 years ago. I found a budding example this week, spending two days with the leadership team at the young, rapidly-growing Bennett Day School, which, come August, will be expanding from a quaint four-classroom early [...]
Most school communities and leaders say that significant, system-wide change from a traditional to a deeper learning model takes many years. I think we are about to prove that wrong. Thirteen months ago at The Tilton School the entire faculty and staff, most of the board, and a large number of students, came together to begin [...]
Summertime, and the blogging is lazy. Sorry to be lax in my posting. Yesterday I had a great Google Hangout, part of a MOOC created and operated by New Zealand teacher Danielle Myburgh in which, amongst other points of discussion, I share some of the themes of the new book I am working on. Here [...]
Here is what keeps me up at night: this 3D holographic learning is ALREADY a reality. How is your school or district preparing to intersect with a near-future where this is common place? If not, how can "school" be the place where students prepare for their own futures? How can we even put this kind [...]
I can't make the argument for getting rid of AP courses any better than Suzanne Fogarty, HOS at Lincoln School in Providence, RI. Listen to her 6 minute interview on NPR for why, what, and how...and the positive responses from across her school community. Is this right for every school? No; nothing is right for [...]
Change is measured by the passing of time. Whether transformation is personal, organizational, social, regional, or global, change is always a measurement of "something different" on one axis, and "time" on the other. I write almost exclusively about education; I try to know my readers and most of them don't care much about my worldview [...]