With reads from Tom Vander Ark, the Wall Street Journal, and Quartz ...
Read MoreOver the last several years I have come to believe that true innovation in schools is not a function of technology or imaginative programming. When I have seen innovation in a school stick, it is because it is an expression of three things ...
Read MoreWhat if independent schools admissions only required two things: 1) that prospective students take StrengthsFinder; and 2) that they write an essay about how they regularly use their Top 5 Strengths?
Read MoreJeff Selingo recently posted on LinkedIn about merger talks between the struggling Wheelock College and booming Boston University. The Boston Globe put it bluntly: Wheelock is facing “mounting financial pressure and plunging enrollment" ...
Read MoreIn this special edition of Future of Learning Top Reads, I'm sharing tweets from three people I admire and from whom I try to learn as much as possible ...
Read MoreIn our age of exponential technologies...
+ one person can instantly put the world on red alert with a tweet ...
Read MoreWhat if the core curriculum in school were built upon the bedrock of mental models? ...
Read MoreIn our current industrial model of school, being smart means knowing the most stuff and making the fewest mistakes ...
Read More"Inclusive teams that value diverse perspectives and have passion for new ideas encourage continuous learning."
--Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft
Read MoreWith reads from The Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, and Getting Smart ...
Read MoreWe already know that the global community and economy place a high premium on collaboration.
We also know that collaboration doesn't magically happen ...
Read MoreWhat if schools evaluted learners not just on their individual learning, but also on how they contribute to their team's learning?
Read MoreOf all the striking things about school I have heard in the last several years, the most impactful one is this statement from Jaime Casap, Google's Chief Education Evangelist ...
Read MoreWith reads from Grant Lichtman, Raya Bidshahri, and Moises Velasquez-Manoff ...
Read MoreThe horrific violence in Charlottesville this past weekend and our federal government's troubling response have most of the United States talking about race, ethnicity, and other forms of diversity ...
Read MoreWhat if every school and learning organization had a research & development unit? ...
Read MoreLast week, a new cohort participated in Re:frame + Re:charge, a workshop on the future of learning and leadership. We gathered at Xavier High School, whose mission, like that of all Jesuit schools, is to form "men and women for others." It was an appropriate site to discuss ...
Read MoreWith reads from The Boston Globe, Education Dive, and Bloomberg Technology...
Read MoreThink about “school.” Here are some of its predominant characteristics in the United States ...
Read MoreIf we go back a little more than 100 years, to the beginning of the current model of school, there was no ...
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