What if all schools were to declare a 4th Purpose?
What collective impact could we achieve?
What human potential could we unleash? …
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Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University, recently said, “The three purposes of a university are research, education, and public service. But …
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With reads from the Enrollment Management Association blog, WHYY / PBS.org, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Collaborative Fund blog …
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What if 2021 is a year for optimism?
What if 2021 is a year for questions that have no right to go away? …
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On Day 1 of last week’s Expedition, “Team Unchained” had settled on the problem of formerly incarcerated people who had been unjustly convicted of crimes they had not committed …
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During last week’s Expedition, an early moment affirmed our core value of pluralism.
The students had just emerged from breakout rooms with 2-3 peers, during which they had discussed social impact problems that interested them …
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At the end of last week’s Expedition, we played this illustrated reading of David Whyte’s “Sometimes,” then asked the students to reflect on the questions they were sitting with after 4 days of learning to think and act as social entrepreneurs …
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Yesterday we hosted a CEO panel for the last Expedition of 2020.
We call the final day of an Expedition the “Boss Level,” so yesterday felt like an appropriate way to end a year that has felt like one continuous boss level because of COVID-19 …
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Highlighting 2020’s top reads from the Ed:Future blog …
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What if we let go of our need to control the curriculum (and thereby control the students) and instead allow students to learn how to learn through their innate curiosity? …
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With reads from Philly Magazine, MIT Technology Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education …
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What if we committed to leading like artists?
What if our schools developed common language for leadership—for the adults and the students—that echoed …
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We are currently developing a full-cycle strategy for a boarding school. Like virtually every school, they intend to develop the leadership potential of their students …
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With reads from US News & World Report, Business Insider, and the Transcend blog …
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What if our systems were designed for disruption because we …
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Through a nationally representative poll, the EdWeek Research Center recently discovered that 9% of parents who did not home school last school year said they plan to home school for part of this school …
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With reads from Forbes, BBC.com, and EdSurge …
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COVID-19 didn’t cause the massive disruption schools are facing. It is merely accelerating things. Because the seeds of disruption were planted long ago, the imperative to innovate is greater than ever …
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What if we used this moment to ask whether we are doing the right things? …
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