After they had set off into the unknown to empathize with someone at the margins …
Read More"What if your bad ideas weren't actually bad ideas?" I said …
Read MoreYes, you read the title of this blog post correctly. "Eat poop, you cat!" is the title of a wonderful, simple, silly game …
Read MoreIf you want to prototype a solution to a thorny problem, designer thinkers will advise you to start with three simple words …
Read MoreSome time in the late 16th century, an Italian Jesuit named Matteo Ricci set off on a journey to the Middle Kingdom …
Read MoreThe first time I facilitated a social entrepreneurship learning experience, one team of students was convinced that Ethiopians had to travel long distances to access water …
Read MoreOn Day 2 of Expeditionaries, students and teachers from Bishop Kearney, Fordham Prep, and Regis High School heard about Matteo and Julian, two 19-year old gang members who had been …
Read MoreWe live in a VUCA world: volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous.
This means that our students, in their professional and personal lives, will have to identify and …
Read MoreVishaan Chakrabarti recently gave an expanded version of his TED 2018 talk at Company. To design humane cities for a rapidly changing world, he argues, we must rethink what problems we …
Read MoreWhat if schools taught the essential difference between the definitions of "liberty" and "freedom"? …
Read MoreMy friend and colleague Sam Chaltain recently wrote a wonderful piece, "To (Re)Design School, We Need New Metaphors. Let’s Start With These Five" …
Read MoreI frequently enjoy the privilege of collaborating with Leadership+Design. Sometimes that means project work for schools, sometimes it means co-presenting at conferences, and sometimes it means writing for L+D's blog …
Read MoreWhat if we treated teachers like professional atheletes and gave them access to "game film" of their teaching? …
Read MoreDuring a recent workshop for a corporate client, executives debated the best way to give feedback to help develop talent, especially young executives recently graduated from college …
Read MoreWith reads from the Enrollment Management Association, Chalkbeat, and the New York Times …
Read MoreWhat if we had new metaphors for school?*
What if we exchanged murmurations for assembly lines, silos for aspen groves? …
Read MoreOn June 14, 2018, The Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article titled "An Ultra-Selective University Just Dropped the ACT/SAT. So What?" in which they reported …
Read MoreRecently I asked an education leader, "What do you see as the most vital issues around great teaching and learning right now and over the next 3-5 years?" …
Read MoreWith reads from eLearningInside News, AIMS website, and Education Dive Brief …
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