With reads from Stanford Social Innovation Review, Sam Chaltain, and Harvard Business Review ...
Read MoreTwo days ago the Harvard Business Review published a study titled "Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works" ...
Read MoreWhat if our classroom design is limiting our improvement?
Read MoreLast week, I received a surprise in the mail. Inside an envelope were two 3" x 3" cardboard squares. Although I finished five years as Malvern's Head of School in July before launching ...
Read MoreWith reads from Ed Week, EdCan, and LinkedIn Pulse ...
Read MoreWhat if the school calendar was year-round? How might it affect pacing, expansion of academic and extra-curricular content, regression from months off, and socioeconomic inequity?
Read MoreWhat if our first session with our students was to ask our them where they are? To listen first, and then design programing that responds to each particular student’s situation?
Read MoreWhat if all playthings were designed for ambush learning* opportunities? What if play and playthings designed for ambush learning became a mainstream part of every classroom beyond kindergarten?
Read MoreOver the weekend, you probably saw headlines about Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria denouncing racial slurs that appeared at the US Air Force Academy's prep school campus last week ...
Read MoreWith reads from The Seattle Times, Inside Higher Ed, and Gallup News ...
Read MoreA couple of nights ago, I spoke with a young teacher who thought he would be an engineer only to discover that he loves teaching Physics ...
Read MoreWhat if all school leaders thought like designers and innovators?
Read MoreLast week I had the good fortune to connect with Julie Wilson, the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for the Future of Learning ...
Read MoreLast year I wrote about reading resources for surviving our "age of accelerations."
The books on that list form a composite picture of the challenges and opportunities ...
Read MoreWhat if every student had a strengths dashboard that enabled her to see and to share, in real time, how she contributes her strengths to her learning team and her learning community?
Read MoreBishop Kearney High School (Brooklyn), one of the schools with whom Basecamp has partnered, is in the middle of a leapfrog moment ...
Read MoreThis week I am only featuring 2 pieces. One is a blog post, the other is a whitepaper. They are both dense with rich and compelling ideas ...
Read MoreFor the first 15 years of my career, I was a full-time English teacher obsessed with designing more impactful, more engaging learning ...
Read MoreWhat if every high school student had "to complete and present 20 projects" and then convert those learning experiences into a digital portfolio to apply for an internship before college?
Read More"How do we reimagine the independent school business model?"
That question launched the Hillbrook School and 11 other schools in their collaboration ...
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