Join Martin Institute and FUSE Events From Home!
May 28, 2014What are you doing June 10-11 and June 25-26? At home? Re-bounding from the end of the school year? Want to join some super talented colleagues and energizing conference sessions from the comfort of your sofa? Lurk and work with us at these two events via Twitter. If you have not remotely participated in a…
Some Suggested Summer Reading
May 28, 2014Last week, colleague Glenn Whitman at St. Andrew’s Episcopal shot out an email to a number of us asking for recommendations for good summer reading reflections for his faculty. I thought I would compile the responses as I know this is going to add to my own iPad library this summer. Also, for any of…
Concerns, Themes of School Change are Universal
May 25, 2014Is it the natural end of a somewhat off-the-grid vacation on tropical islands and rain forest pathways? Or is it that my friends around the world care deeply about education and that the themes of our times are universal and pressing? Some of both. In the last two days, as I wind down this wonderful…
Tides and Empathy
May 20, 2014What is “off the grid”? Time to relax? Reflect? Deflect? Unwind, evolve, devolve, assemble, dissemble? When I stop long enough to see the tide go out and come back in the same day, I am reminded that the same sea, albight in a different configuration of land masses and depths, has washed around the earth for…
Antulang Revisited
May 17, 2014The opening line of a short story I wrote many years ago: “It is not easy getting to Antulang. Thank God for that.” In 1982 I spent most of Holy Week with friends camped on a lonely beach at the end of a horrible dirt road an hour south of Dumaguete, a spot ignored by…
What Changes and What Does Not
May 14, 2014How can we travel from one side of the Pacific to the other in just half a day? How can a small city in a developing country have evolved in just two decades to a place of smart phones, fast food, and internet cafes? How can those same artifacts of the flat, modern world exist…
Slightly Off the Grid
May 10, 2014I will be a bit off the grid for two weeks; heading to Dumaguete City on Negros Island in the Central Philippines. Many of you know that I have led student trips there for the past six years; no longer doing that with Francis Parker School, but still very much involved in their trip planning…
How Might We Change Our Schools…in 10 Minutes?
May 8, 2014I have never visited an educational institution more steeped in tradition than the US Military Academy at West Point. The Academy is a keeper of traditions of which all of us would be proud, and that many of us would do well to emulate. But, over the several years that I have worked and visited…
Lessons From West Point
May 7, 2014I arrived on the grounds of USMA West Point in the late afternoon and found my room in the Distinguished Visitor’s Quarters, a renovated three-story Victorian near the parade grounds and overlooking the mighty Hudson River. Cadets walked home in pairs, trios, and small groups, or jogged down the road in full gear or shorts…
Why We ALL Should Care About Schools Like VIDA
May 4, 2014School change is messy and often uncomfortable (those who have watched my TEDx talk or worked with me know that I resist over-using the term “hard” to describe school change). Each school is different, and the challenges and opportunities of innovative, value-driven change are greater for schools that are resource limited. At different schools the…
The “Four Things” Teacher
May 4, 2014The great thing about traveling across time zones is that you lie awake at night and think about stuff. Last week Melinda Kolk of Tech4Learning interviewed me for an article she is going to write about my new book, #EdJourney. She told me about a teacher in a school she works with; I think it…
How Might I Help You When I’m In Town?
May 2, 2014As I coordinate speaking events related to the release of my new book, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education, with my work with schools and school associations around the country, I am trying to make my travel as efficient as possible. Am I coming near you? Right now my fall-spring calendar looks something…
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