More Examples of the Radically Differentiating Education Marketplace
January 24, 2017In a major new three-hour workshop that I will co-present with John Gulla of the EE Ford Foundation at the annual NAIS Conference (Wed., March 1, 1-4 PM; sign up for the workshop before it is full!), we will look at what is inevitable in the transformation of “schools” over the next 20+ years. One…
You Just Have to Visit Design 39 Campus to Fully “Get It”
January 20, 2017If you work at a K-8 school and want to transform to a deeper learning experience for your students, I simply do not know of a better example to visit than Design 39 Campus in Poway Unified District, CA. If you have read my posts in the past, you know I follow D39C closely; I…
A Few Paragraphs of the Inevitable
January 16, 2017I may have the chance to keynote a major international conference later this year, and, sitting in my chair at home this morning, my opening to what will be a highly diverse group of attendees began to form itself. I thought I would share: I’m not a techie, but I am going to talk about…
A Brilliant Start on How To Teach Real/Fake News Literacy
January 15, 2017Many of us have been struggling over how to teach our students, and ourselves, about a new world of widespread fake news. I have argued that the skills of filtering real and fake news must become a large element of what we call “literacy”, every bit as important, and perhaps more so, than our traditional…
Another Great Tool for Bringing Your School’s Future to Life
January 11, 2017I apologize for largely ignoring by blogging duties for the last month or more. I have been nose-down in a semi-final draft of my new book, which is on schedule to be published by Jossey-Bass in September. Now that is turned in, I will try to be a more regular writer in this space! Next…
Super-fan Nerd Predicts Stanford Win
December 22, 2016Stanford Cardinal super-fan Cliff (am sure someone knows his last name, but I don’t) is a gnomish old guy who reportedly made a fortune in Silicon Valley, retired, and for years has shown up at Stanford sporting events all over the country. Last week before the national NCAA semi-final women’s volleyball match between the Cardinal…
Brushfires of Innovation at Columbus Academy, Ohio
December 16, 2016If you walk around schools, if you ask the right questions, if you stop and listen to teachers and students, if you look at how spaces are arranged and used, you can tell a lot about a school in a short period of time. I am in freezing Columbus, OH for the NCAA volleyball Final…
Video of My Talk: A Night of Inquiry, Innovation, and Impact
December 15, 2016In October I was honored to participate in An Evening of Inquiry, Innovation, and Impact at Mt. Vernon Presbyterian School in Atlanta. Thanks to Mt. Vernon Institute of Innovation for hosting this intimate conversation-in-the-round, and to my co-presenters on the evening, Kawai Lai, Glen Whitman, Kaleb Rashad, Tod Martin, and Joyelle Harris. Feel free to…
Explosion of Deeper Learning at Underserved Neighborhood School: Bayside STEAM Academy
December 7, 2016And people wondered why the low income school with the mascot of a big wave with fists had a lot of trouble with fighting during recess… The new mascot is the green sea turtle that live in the shallow, southernmost reaches of San Diego Bay just a few steps from the newly renamed and rebranded Bayside…
Are Facts On the Road to Extinction?
December 5, 2016Like many others, I am deeply concerned with the rapid spread of quasi-factual and nonsensical information spread across social and “journalistic” media as truth. As educators, we simply must take on the challenge of learning and teaching how to separate truth from fiction and opinion. In a recent post, journalist and commentator Dan Rather noted…
Aligning Adaptation to Real Rates of Change
December 1, 2016If we can point to a moment when educators finally realized that the world was changing so dramatically that we had to take notice, it was within a year or so of the publication of Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat. Friedman has a remarkable ability to take something complex that many of us know to…
Permission To Push Boundaries
November 30, 2016In the earliest phase of work with each school with which I engage, I ask the site leader (principal, head of school, superintendent) to come up with a set of “boundary conditions” that will guide and govern a process of expansive strategic design. Boundary conditions set out both the limits and expectations of a project. They…
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