Forward-Leaning PD Events Spur Innovation; Join Colleagues for LASDK8 in September
July 23, 2014As followers of this blog know, I find THE key to transforming learning is painting the picture for adult educator-leaders, and then giving them the resources to re-tool and create dynamic, flexible, adaptive, engaged learning ecosystems. We are seeing a mini-explosion of professional development events aimed at meeting this critical need. Schools and districts realize…
Bay Area Mini-#EdJourney in September
July 21, 2014What schools in the San Francisco Bay Area are burning brightly with brushfires of innovation? Might I come visit, observe, reflect, and share with your faculty and/or students? I normally charge a daily consulting fee, but maybe we chalk this trip up to research? I am honored to be a featured speaker and have a…
What Does Success Look Like For Your School?
July 17, 2014Yesterday I posted some reflections on how schools can more effectively move from broad vision statements that sometimes sound formulaic or canned to a real pathway of strategic implementation. One critical step is to paint a picture of what success looks like in the future. Innovative organizations recognized two elements of painting this picture: The…
Parsing Your School’s Vision
July 16, 2014Last week I reviewed the visioning and strategic planning documents for a school with whom I may work in the fall. Taking out the specifics for that school, I thought I would share my reflections on “how might we improve the path from forward leaning vision to sustainable, system-wide implementation of our strategic goals?” I…
Where Is the True Value of a School?
July 8, 2014As I reported in Independent School Magazine in 2014 (“Zero-Based Strategic Thinking”), we are living through a rapid global shift in producer-consumer relationships across most industrial sectors. Companies that deliver generic, higher cost products and services are being replaced by lower cost competitors that can tailor products and services to individual consumer demands. According to people…
“Black List” of Ideas For Future School Success?
July 5, 2014What if, like Hollywood, schools had a “Black List” of ideas that educators love but that schools have shunned out of fear, reluctance to break with the past, or collective uncertainty? What if the list already exists? Like Hollywood, would we find numerous Academy Award winners and box office smashes amongst that list of ideas…
A Piece of the Grit Puzzle
July 1, 2014“Grit” is a buzz word; we have a hard time tying down exactly what we mean by it, or even if we share a common understanding. Earlier this year we had a lengthy discussion in this blog space about “grit”. Check out this short piece from CBS Channel 9 LA yesterday; I think you will…
Notes From the Leading Edge
July 1, 2014How are three school leaders and their respective schools staying at the leading edge of the innovation wave? How are they successfully transforming away from the assembly line model of “school”? I had a 90 minute video chat yesterday with Bo Adams of Mt. Vernon Presbyterian in Atlanta, Thomas Steele-Maley of the new GEMS World…
New Book, #EdJourney Official Page Now Up!
June 28, 2014It’s getting close! The official page for my new book, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education, is now up on the Jossey-Bass website! There are links to major US distributors, including Amazon, which has #EdJourney available now for a pre-order discount. I am discounting my normal facilitation/workshop/speaking fees by up to $750/day to encourage…
#FUSE14 Wrap Up: Jump In
June 26, 2014The conveners of #FUSE14 chose the perfect image as metaphor for the event: a swimming pool. I was a swimmer growing up; learned how to swim at age three and was competitive in all four strokes by age five. Am still at home in the water as I am on land. Like our students in…
So Much of DT=The Falconer! (Live From #FUSE14)
June 26, 2014Shameless plug? Yeah, a bit, but I cannot help but reflect on how much of the conversation amongst this group of educators at #fuse14 parallels the core elements of my first book, The Falconer. I guess it was inevitable at this venue: a key driver of #fuse14 is Bo Adams who was one of my…
Reflection On Comfort From #FUSE14
June 26, 2014There is passion, noise, and emotion in the room here. There is learning. People are pumped with the range of possibilities they are uncovering, their heads pushed in somewhat new directions. There is also discomfort here. Some are past the edge of their comfort zone, probably not radically so, but past it nonetheless. What will…
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