Are You Accessing Quality, FREE Content and Books via CK-12 Foundation? Why Not??
December 18, 2013In fine-tuning the chapter on creativity chapter in my upcoming book, I wanted to write about the explosion of opportunities that teachers and students now have to make that leap from consumers to creators of knowledge within their learning process. I was honored to interview Neeru Khosla this morning; Neeru is the co-founder and Executive…
Can Your School Re-Direct 2 Weeks of Class? Pomfret Students Say “Yes!”
December 17, 2013Can your school afford to take two weeks off from normal classes and still meet your learning objectives? Most schools have trouble finding a spare 15 minutes a week in their busy schedule. Two weeks? Not possible. Yet it is, and Pomfret School is proving it right now. The entire school is taking the time…
Does Most Innovation Happen on the Twitter Feed?
December 13, 2013I am scrolling through my Twitter feed and it is just JAMMED with pictures of engaged, excited students doing really cool things: coding, making, building, designing, filming, drawing, digging, serving, collaborating, speechifying, acting…etc. Wonderful! Now the provocateur in my comes out: how much of this is due to increased comfort of educators with Twitter and…
This Picture Says It All
December 13, 2013This picture pretty much says it all. Posted by Renee Beverlin on Pinterest and Tweeted via Dr. Lee-Anne Gray.
New Title, Job Description For School Leader of the Future?
December 13, 2013Has the time come when we should and can re-draft the job description of the principal/head of school? Yes and yes. Last week I was working on job descriptions for the founding faculty and principal of Design 39 Campus in Poway. The faculty job description is extremely forward leaning and I recommend school leaders look…
Pioneering Partnership : EduCon and The Martin Institute Bring Unique PD to Your Town
December 10, 2013Outstanding professional development and collegial interaction just got a whole lot closer to your door. I am so excited and honored to announce a groundbreaking partnership between The Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence and EduCon 2.6 hosted at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, this coming January 24-25! Just a tad of background: last year during…
Your School and Google Employee Assessment Tools
December 4, 2013I am on a “what does Google have to share with a K12 school” kick. Today, via a Tweet from IDEO, I saw this post from David Garvin of the Harvard Business School with a summary of the semi-annual feedback that Google managers get from their direct reports. Check it out. What can schools learn from…
Highlights From a Busy Fall!
December 4, 2013Last fall my EdJourney took me to 64 schools via 10,000 miles in my Prius. This fall it was six cross country round trip flights in seven weeks, with many stops along the way, to work and learn with something like 1,500 teachers, students, administrators, and parents who care deeply about the future of our…
Unique Post on Bullying: Proud to Share
December 3, 2013For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter or who missed the tweet, I want to proudly direct you to a blog written by my daughter on the subject of bullying. Cassidy is a member of the US National Women’s volleyball team, and when she is not competing for USA Volleyball or professional…
Your School and Google’s Flexible Workspace
December 2, 2013In a series of short posts and videos from Fast Company, we see how Google is using space to create collaborative working and learning environments. I watched several of these, and see enormous parallels to how we can transform the K-12 learning process by re-imagining the use of physical space. Here are some of my…
Your School and Google’s Nine Principles of Innovation
November 24, 2013The other day Kathy Chin Leong published a review of what Google’s chief social evangelist, Gopi Kallayil, calls Google’s Nine Principles of Innovation. I tweeted out the post (as did others) and I know many of my followers linked to it. A major section of my upcoming book will discuss how key elements of innovation…
Innovation is Grabbing Hold at Colorado Academy
November 21, 2013One of the pleasures of research is to observe longitudinal change; revisiting a school from time to time provides that window. It was my pleasure to visit the campus of Colorado Academy for the third time in just over a year, and to see evidence of some of the courageous decisions they have made about…
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