We All Need to Dream
August 28, 2013I hope every teacher in every school in America found and used one of the great teaching moments of our generation today. I watched the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s dream, a day in 1963 that may have marked the high water mark of the soul of America. And with the searching words of each…
My ISTE Article on Technology Lessons From EdJourney
August 27, 2013I just had an article published in the ISTE journal Learning and Leading With Technology. It is only available to ISTE members, but the editors were kind enough to allow me to link to it. So I have posted it on the Resources page of this blog. The title is “Taking Aim at Innovation”. It…
Great Conversation Today in Pasadena…and Shared Around the Country
August 27, 2013Great start to the morning: a veteran teacher who had been at my workshop with the Polytechnic faculty in June came up to me when I arrived and said, “I did not get this ‘innovation’ thing until you talked about ‘teacher as lead learner and co-learner’. Now I see it and I feel like the…
“An Artist, An Engineer, a Historian, a Geologist and 300 Teachers walk into a bar…”
August 20, 2013Please join me, the faculty of five independent schools, and three authoritative voices from outside the traditional mainstream of K-12 education, via Twitter feed for a unique conversation about the direction of learning in the years ahead. Next Monday, August 26, from 10:15-11:45 Pacific Time, more than 300 educators from Alverno High, Mayfield Senior, St.…
Read Comment Stream on Magnitude and Frequency
August 17, 2013For those readers who do not follow on Twitter, please know that there is a remarkable sharing of ideas started by my post yesterday on Magnitude and Frequency. Check out the Comments stream and add your own. I think “we” will develop some tools for schools to assess and open their concepts of what innovation…
Innovation: Are We Overlooking “Magnitude” With Focus on “Frequency”?
August 16, 2013When we talk about innovation and change in schools, are we overly focused on the rate of change? We talk about the need to fail fast and fail forward. Does that breed myopia on speed, pace, and the frequency of innovative ideation? What about magnitude? I shared a fascinating dialogue on Twitter yesterday with JoAnn…
Connectivity, Distributed Authority, and Team Design Focus Leadership at Pacific Ridge School
August 13, 2013If we truly believe that all educators can and should be leaders, we need to develop those skills that bake “leadership ownership” into the dough of the whole organization. In my ongoing work with the leadership team at Pacific Ridge School, we got to do just that today, while testing some new tools I have…
Team Toy: Twitter At It’s Best
August 11, 2013If you think social media is a gimmick for kids to waste time, here is my (heavily biased) argument otherwise. My daughter wrote the following blog for USA Volleyball yesterday. This is Twitter at its best. And the match starts in 15 minutes…GO USA/Team Toy! Aug. 10: Cassidy Lichtman (@CassidyLichtman), U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team…
Whew! The Jetstream of Innovation is Blowing Hard!
August 8, 2013Been too busy to blog, so have been Tweeting out thoughts and connection resources, but for those of you still not active on Twitter (just do it), quick connections: Go to Twitter and search #MVPsubd. Make sure you click “All” so you see the full feed. Skim the feed for yesterday and today. Now, ask…
Time to Change
August 2, 2013Last evening I happened onto #ISEDchat on Twitter because Josie Holford a and a few others who are on my most closely watched comments list were participating. The discussion was about use of time in schools, particularly class schedules. Josie asked “Is there any school out there still stuck in the 45 or 55 minute…
Are You Looking Ahead Re BYOD?
July 28, 2013Katrina Schwartz (@kschwart) on Mindshift reports on the annual Software and Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 2013 Vision K-20 survey of use of technology in education. I always look for the dissonance as the place to start solving problems, so this bit shouted out to me: Almost half of all secondary schools allow students to bring their own devices now and…
“Free-range” Students
July 27, 2013A couple of wonderful Tweets you might want to share on opening faculty day in the coming weeks: Many people commented on my post the other day about “Unleashing Jack”, but I have to pass these two priceless comments along. First from Jon Bluestein, Director of Middle School Teaching and Learning at Randolph School in…
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