For those of you who don't follow me on Twitter or who missed the tweet, I want to proudly direct you to a blog written by my daughter on the subject of bullying. Cassidy is a member of the US National Women's volleyball team, and when she is not competing for USA Volleyball or professional [...]
In a series of short posts and videos from Fast Company, we see how Google is using space to create collaborative working and learning environments. I watched several of these, and see enormous parallels to how we can transform the K-12 learning process by re-imagining the use of physical space. Here are some of my [...]
The other day Kathy Chin Leong published a review of what Google's chief social evangelist, Gopi Kallayil, calls Google’s Nine Principles of Innovation. I tweeted out the post (as did others) and I know many of my followers linked to it. A major section of my upcoming book will discuss how key elements of innovation [...]
One of the pleasures of research is to observe longitudinal change; revisiting a school from time to time provides that window. It was my pleasure to visit the campus of Colorado Academy for the third time in just over a year, and to see evidence of some of the courageous decisions they have made about [...]
Here is the question that education leaders should be screaming to each other and to the world: what is the business of school? For millennia, the business (some of my colleagues think we should not use the word business with respect to education; replace it with purpose if you like) of schools has been to [...]
I am so happy, honored, and to announce that I have signed a contract to publish my manuscript covering my travels and work of the last year with Jossey-Bass Publishers! To be honest, I had never given a lot of thought to who publishes the books I read. But when I started to reach out [...]
For those of you who are not active on Twitter or don't follow me there (why not on both counts?!) this partnership between St. Andrew's School in Potomac and the Harvard Graduate School of Education is such a wonderful and leading example of teacher-as-learner. Keep track of the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at [...]
Bo Adams and I kicked off the NYSAIS Assistant Heads and Division Heads meeting today with a talk; we have about 7 hours of active learning sessions over the next two days based around the theme of Time, Space, and Curriculum. We have about 190 attendees, so just think of the ideas and new perspectives [...]
Words matter. The first time I saw the word “ecosystem” used to describe a process of learning more attuned to the future needs of our students was by Thomas and Seeley-Brown in “A New Culture of Learning”. It resonated with me; they described the teacher as a farmer who sets out the boundary fences of inquiry [...]
Did a 9th grader just solve one of the most intransigent obstacles to school innovation? I think so! It is a simple, elegant, easy way to create large blocks of time for faculty to collaborate on their own professional development and growth. Read on and send comments; is there a hidden thorn in this rose [...]