What if every school board of trustees had a Futurist Committee?
Read MoreA recent World Economic Forum article summarizes key insights from the May 2018 McKinsey Global Institute report on key skills gaps for work in the year 2030 …
Read MoreWith reads from World Economic Forum, McKinsey Quarterly, and Sam Chaltain …
Read More"When I think about how our schools might promote the notion of 'omnidisciplinary thinking,' I wonder if we shouldn't aim to be more collage-prep than college-prep …”
Read MoreMcKinsey Quarterly is a wonderful resource for the evolving demands of leadership. I was particularly struck by a recent essay, "Leading with Inner Agility," in which the authors make a blunt claim …
Read MoreWith reads from Frank Bruni, Inside Higher Ed, and …
Read MoreWhat if one of the primary goals of school were to foster a learner's ability to drop the skills they have already mastered, "learn something new, and prosper again"?
Read MoreMorgan Housel may be a professional investment advisor, but his weekly blog post usually contains at least one keen insight into how learning happens …
Read MoreWith reads from EdSurge News, Harvard Business Review, and the Getting Smart blog …
Read MoreWhat if tuition paid now guaranteed a learner a lifetime subscription* to your school? ..
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, we shared thoughts on what schools can learn about education innovation from Gartner's Hype Cycle …
Read MoreWith reads from The Chronicle of Higher Education, Fragments II Blog, and VRFocus …
Read MoreWhat if more and more schools are going to look like Albemarle Tech and Design Tech High? …
Read MoreWith reads from the Washington Post, Wired, and Inside HigherEd …
Read MoreWhat if everyone in a school made a weekly list of things that used to make sense, but that might be crowding out room for better things? …
Read More"The largest business line items are employee compensation and an attachment to sunk costs” …
Read MoreWith reads from The 74, Axios, and Steve Blank …
Read MoreIf we have entered the third wave of education, then...
Read MoreLarry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, one of the largest software companies in the world, recently said, "I want a school that doesn’t teach kids what to think, it teaches them how to think" …
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