What Student Ownership of Learning Looks Like: A Remarkable Day at The Shipley School
November 17, 2014What does student ownership of learning look like? How do even young students rapidly engage when given the freedom to ask expansive questions? Do students really need to start at the bottom of Bloom’s Taxonomy before building to abstraction and synthesis? Do we even begin to tap the insights of students that would contribute richly…
Success and Significance; the Evolving Issues of K-12 and Post-Secondary Education
November 15, 2014As individuals and as schools, do we want to be successful or significant? Great or leading? What are common elements of the disruptions and mutations facing both K-12 and higher education? I was honored to share the stage with Dr. John Fry, president of Drexel University at the annual meeting of trustees and heads of…
ISTE Article: Take Aim at Innovation
November 13, 2014Last year I wrote an article for ISTE’s magazine “Learning and Leading With Technology”; it argued that technology was not a goal but a tool, like arrows for an archer, and gave a number of examples from my many school visits. ISTE reposted it yesterday, so if you missed it, here it is!
Signals That Your School Is/Is Not Building Capacity to Innovate
November 11, 2014What are some signals that your school is becoming more powerful, comfortable, and capable of innovation? What are some signals that perhaps you are not? One of the benefits/privileges of NOT working at one school is that I get to observe and synthesize what I see at many schools. Here are a few measures of…
Underperforming Ortiz MS Starting to Show Winning Breakthroughs!
November 4, 2014Want to see how a school can go from 0-60 in a short period of time? Think you have obstacles that are difficult to overcome? Read on! As my readers know, Julie Wilson invited me on to a team working with Ortiz Middle School in Santa Fe, NM, a recognized underperforming school with an extremely…
Lessons From Asian Independent Schools
November 3, 2014I have just wrapped up a week at the East Asian Regional Council of Schools conference in Malaysia. Some observations on independent schools in Asia: The economies in many or most Asian countries, combined with an extraordinary (healthy or not?) cultural obsession with academic success, has created an enormous market demand for K-12 schools. Even…
Article on #EdJourney in Scholastic Administrator Magazine
November 2, 2014I had a telephone interview two weeks ago with Kim Greene of Scholastic Administrator Magazine, and the article was posted online a few days ago. It covers some of the key lessons of #EdJourney. Another upcoming article which I can’t wait to see is an online interview I did with Polish magazine “Sygnal”; the translations…
Adding to My Classroom Innovation Toolkit
October 28, 2014What does a transformed and deeper learning experience look like, and how can schools move intentionally in that direction? Last year I was honored to co-present a session at NAIS with Bo Adams in which I focused (in a general sense) on the strategic or organizational side of this coin, and Bo focused on the…
More Great Windows Into Deeper Learning via Pam Moran
October 26, 2014If you are an educator interested in re-shaping the world of K-12 learning to prepare our students for the future, there are a few folks you just HAVE to follow, and one is Pam Moran. She does not blog often, but when she does, the posts are rich in both examples and links. Pam and…
Some Simple Techniques to Turn Learning Over to the Students
October 24, 2014In a very busy couple of months, I am seeing sharp lines between the way I “teach” and the methods of, perhaps, more traditional instruction, be it with children or adults. The lines grow brighter as I get to observe in classrooms and workshops. One element keeps popping up: why do you, the teacher, have…
Updating Resource Links
October 23, 2014It has been a busy week, so catching up on resources to share: I had a full day at Summit School in Winston-Salem, NC. In the evening we invited the community in for a conversation on the future of education; you can watch the video of the presentation here. I was also interviewed on Fox…
Reflection From an Old Dead Head
October 19, 2014I am/was a Dead Head; not the kind who followed the band around the country camped out in decrepit cars begging tickets and hand-outs for food, but enough to drive a few hours to a county park or Berkeley for a Sunday afternoon with friends whenever the Dead were in town. Rolling Stone just published…
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