Back On the Road (Well, In the Air)
May 2, 2014I am so happy to announce that my new book, #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education, will be published by Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand, in early September. It has received some wonderfully generous comments from a range of educational thought leaders. Since completing my solo 89-day, nationwide tour of 64 schools, I…
Building New Value Looks Like…
April 26, 2014This is the kind of response that will jumpstart a new kind of design-based collaborative thinking at your school…and sure makes my day! From one of the 28 school teams engaged in our 9-month NBOA/OSG hybrid collaboration on imagining and building a more sustainable future. (If we run the program again next year, I think we…
Building Interdisciplinary Capacity and (not in) Schools
April 25, 2014Check out blog by Thomas Steele-Malley on development of interdisciplinary programs; very rich in links to those schools who are leading the way. In particular, this video about a group of schools in Wisconsin, Interdisciplinary Learning Collaborative, is a treat. It reminded me of my visit to Meridian Academy in Boston. What a great idea:…
Value is Not Measured in $$
April 25, 2014A short reminder today prompted by a @NAISNetwork question via Twitter: Are there any school assets that simply cannot be assigned a value? Several responses suggest that as soon as we use the word “value” people default to assigning a closely associated dollar amount. That is understandable…and wrong. In all of my work with school teams…
Stephen Downes on “Connectivism” in Learning
April 24, 2014I was a latecomer to the formal theories of education and learning; in my formative years I never read Dewey, Piaget, or Bloom. I am still convinced that I coined the term “problem-finding” one afternoon in 1985 as I ran our two dogs on a sage-covered hillside; certainly I had never heard it used before…
What We Really Want Our Students to Learn
April 23, 2014One of my newfound PLN members from Hobsonville Point Secondary School in Auckland, New Zealand, Steve Mouldey, Tweeted a page from the introduction of my first book, The Falconer, the other day. It reminded me of a foundational assumption that I started constructing 30 years ago, and still believe in today: We are not teaching our…
More Endorsements for #EdJourney, Coming in September
April 22, 2014Another set of truly generous endorsements from education thought leaders from K-12 and college, public and private, for #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education. Thanks to all! Link here to announcement flyer; please share! “… on par with Horace’s Compromise, Theodore Sizer’s seminal 1984 descriptor of the failures of America’s high schools.…
Endorsements For New Book, #EdJourney, Available in September
April 21, 2014Honored to announce that my new book will be available by the first of September! Link here to a two-page flyer with some very generous endorsements! I am in the process of sending out email announcements and starting to set up days/weeks to be in various parts of the country during the 2014-15 school year…
Find Gems: Busting Silos in Your School
April 18, 2014Do you want some outstanding, practical, “its already working for us at our school today” ideas for how to bust silos at your school? Read on! If we had gathered a roomful of educators three years ago and started talking about “silos”, the vast majority would have thought the topic was grain storage. In the…
Martin Fellows to Facilitate Active Learning Workshops at Summer Conference
April 16, 2014Some of our true thought leaders and teaching colleagues are coming to Memphis in June to facilitate workshops at the Martin Institute Summer Conference, June 10-11. Last year’s conference had 800 attendees from 21 states. Join these Martin Institute Fellows for affordable, accessible practices that you can immediately use to help transform your students’ learning experience:…
Guest Hosting #ISEDCHAT Twitter Chat This Thursday, 9PMET/6PM PT “Busting Silos”
April 14, 2014I am honored and excited to have been asked to guest moderate the #isedchat Twitter chat this week as school leaders gather virtually on Thursday at 9 PM ET/6PM PT. Yes, the name implies this is an indy school chat, but we all know those artificial boundaries that separate public and private school educators are…
Register Now for Martin Institute Summer Conference, June 10-11
April 14, 2014If I had to choose a single big lesson from my work of the last two years it is this: to transform our schools we need to do two things for our teachers: paint the picture of a truly student-centered learning experience, and then give them the resources to re-tool. Unlike most major professional learning…
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