If you or your school is re-thinking what learning can look like in the future, I URGE you to follow along as grades 6-8 at Catlin Gabel School pilot a week that they have been co-designing with their students all fall. Follow on Twitter at #Edlabcgs, and, later in the week on my blog as [...]
Sometimes numbers speak for themselves, so I am not going to write much commentary. In the most recent issue of Net Assets, the National Business Officer Association shared these tidbits, artifacts of our time. I don't have the original source citations, but I very much trust our colleagues at NBOA, as well as these authoritative [...]
One powerful indication of just how fast the world is moving: students in K-12 today may be VERY different than those of just 10-15 years ago. In her book iGen, Jean Twenge (HT to Andrea Fanjoy who is going to do a deeper review of this book, which I will share when she publishes it) [...]
A dozen years ago just a tiny fraction of schools had started to transform in response to the realities of a rapidly changing world. Five years ago, we started to see powerful conversations and intentional, significant change at a much wider range of schools. Today we may be approaching the tipping point, at least in [...]
Is your school leveraging the incredible power of "learning in and with your community"? Are your students connected with "clients" in the business community? Are they working with city planners, non-profits, major businesses on authentic, real-world projects? Take one hour, join our free, face-to-face Sandbox next week, and learn from some of the best in [...]
What kind of choices will our students make when faced with big, hairy problems in their own lives, and for the world we leave them? Will they have the tools to make these choices based on sound information and reasoning? Will they repeat mistakes of the past, or will they learn from them? Will they [...]
The American experiment, which now seems so natural to us, is a thoroughly artificial device designed to counterbalance the natural impulses of group suspicions and hatreds. . . . This vast, artificial, trans-tribal construct is what our Founders aimed to achieve. And they understood that it can be achieved effectively only by intelligent schooling. (From E. D. [...]
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Last week I posted a blog after the Alabama special election. I have received some feedback that it was overly harsh and condemning of people and a region, and that some educators were so upset that I will probably no longer be in their circle of respect. To those who have [...]
When you are riding a bike and the wind is in your face, you think of little else other than, "when will I turn a corner and have the wind at my back?" When the wind is at your back, you tend to fairly quickly forget the boost you are being given. This is the [...]
While this space is used exclusively for matters related to education, we increasingly must find and deal with the Venn overlap of social, economic, and political trends that both reflect and impact the ecosystem of which education is just one element. What we teach/learn, and how we teach/learn MUST recognize the reality of the world [...]
