Two New Slides at the Tipping Point
March 29, 2013Schools, like all organizations, reach tipping-point moments. For many of us that moment is here or on the horizon. Will we keep teaching what and how we have been teaching for decades, or will be respond to the real, inevitable, and irreversible changes in the world around us? We don’t weigh these questions and make…
The Critical Move From Vision to Action: St. Christopher’s School, Richmond
March 28, 2013St. Christopher’s School is a K12 boys school in Richmond, VA. They celebrated their centennial last year, have strong admissions demand, and are considered in the top tier of schools in the Richmond market. So why does a school like St. Christopher’s embark on a path of innovation to change what and how they teach? …
All-Star Line-up For Unique Professional Learning at Martin Institute Summer Conference
March 24, 2013If the group of presenters lined up for the Martin Institute Summer Conference (June 12-13) were a March Madness team, the opposing players would take one look, give up, and run screaming back to the locker room. In the common tongue, this team is ridiculous. And they are going to do what great educators do…
Flame Throwing Friday
March 23, 2013You don’t need to pack your Prius and drive around the country to fan brushfires of school innovation. Here was my Friday, and I never left the window seat. Click on a few of these links and you will be as excited about the future of education in America as I am! First Tweet of…
My TEDx Talk
March 20, 2013Here is my talk from last week at the TEDx Denver Teachers event sponsored by Colorado Academy, Denver Public Schools, and the Association of Colorado Independent Schools. I hope you enjoy it and will share. As you know, TED is not about telling everything you know, but about teeing up the big ideas. I hope…
Unboundary Rolls Out Ground-Breaking Pedagogical Master Plan Concept
March 19, 2013How much time and treasure does your school spend on creating master plans for campus facilities, capital campaigns, marketing and communications, strategic plans, and accreditation reviews? Go ahead, count it all up. I know; I have done them all. Over a 5-10 year period it is a TON of money and focus. For most larger independent schools…
Dinosaurs, Disruption, and the Wisdom of Chris Lehman
March 15, 2013With all my own travel and writing, I have fallen way behind on my blog reading; I know this because I always read posts from Chris Lehman, visionary leader of Science Leadership Academy as soon as I see them. This time, Chris Thinnes beat me to it and Tweeted me this post as a “must…
Worldview of the Buffalo and Other Great Ideas From TEDxDenver Teachers
March 15, 2013Was it Mark Twain who said something about it being easy to write a long story and hard to write a short one? No? Somebody smart and something like that. For my first-ever TEDx talk, the strict 18-minute limit was a stern master. I worked five times harder getting the talk down to 18 minutes…
Great Linkage on Common Core, Daring to Innovate, and the Architecture of Creativity
March 13, 2013Three deeply intertwined strands of thought blew in through the blogosphere and Twitter feed in rapid succession yesterday. Any or all of these would make rich fodder for a faculty workshop or administration team reading. I received the links because earlier in the week I wrote a blog post “Join the Flamethrowers”, arguing that incipient…
Experiential Learning Around the Globe, Francis Parker School, San Diego
March 12, 2013If you followed my blog during the middle of February you had a chance to share in some of the remarkable learning experiences of a group of 14 high school students from Francis Parker School in San Diego on our two-week trip in the rural Philippines. My EdJourney last fall was about finding unique, innovative…
Join the Flamethrowers
March 11, 2013The conflagration grows, and I could not be happier to be amongst the flame-throwers. The questions now: how quickly will the fires catch? Will they reach the places that we densely inhabit, or die out on the prairies, largely unnoticed? Will the steady monsoon of inertia drown them out, not because monsoons have ill will…
Art of Questioning Resonates With Math Teachers
March 9, 2013I did two things last week that, just a few years ago, I could not have imagined. I spoke to a group of teachers gathered in Philadelphia, without leaving my dining room table. And they were math teachers and the subject was the Art of Questioning. Why the sense of breakthrough? First, I was lousy…
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