Low $, Easy, High Return Innovation: Idea Paint
March 6, 2013Here is an idea that cropped up four times in the last three days, an idea I have spread since early in my EdJourney last fall, and it deserves a separate shout-out of its own. I truly believe it may represent the least expensive way to dramatically embrace the core of what we call educational…
WP Article on Neuroscience Research and K-12 Learning at St. Andrews Episcopal, Potomac
March 6, 2013Those of you who have been following my blog remember posts on The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Academy in Potomac. MD. They have created a partnership with the Neuro-Education Initiative at Johns Hopkins and have really committed to integrating the latest research on how the brain works into their…
Following Tom Little on His Progressive Schools Tour
March 5, 2013Hopefully those of you who followed my EdJourney around the country this fall are also following Tom Little, Head of Park Day School in Oakland, CA on his tour of the country as he visits progressive schools. I found his blog via a tweet from Jonathan Martin, and just had a chance to catch up…
Links to Education Thought Leaders: Pass it On!
March 2, 2013If you are a thought leader in education, or want to help your team to become better thought leaders, this post is rich, free, easy professional development for all! Send it along to team members and suggest they start following the blogs and tweets of people in this post and they will immediately be linked…
I, Too, Can Teach
February 24, 2013Our trip to the Philippines ended with two glorious days on Apo Island, highlighted by a dance party on the beach between our students and most of the village youth. How often does this happen on Apo, a small fishing village? Once a year, when we come. Thousands of tourists visit each year to dive…
Day in the Life of our Philippines Experience
February 20, 2013Hard rain at night. Still coming down in the morning and radar shows a tropical depressions blowing up west of Palau. Climb into the old jeepney which blew a flat two days ago on the same road up to the hill village where some of our students are staying but we need to make the…
Who Will Win the Race to Creativity?
February 17, 2013Here is a thought experiment that can inform the leading education question of our time. Take a random group of students from three countries: China, the U.S., and the Philippines. All three groups spend long hours in school and take objective exams which will, to a large extent, determine their access to higher education. Replay…
Letting Them Go
February 15, 2013The homes are small, the villages poor. They will sleep on bamboo beds or mats on the floor. Showers will be a bucket of water. For five days our students will stay with host families in and around Dumaguete, families of extremely limited means. Our experience over the last five years is that, come next…
What is the Value of $2?
February 14, 2013What is the value of $2? Is it 1/3rd of a fancy cup of Starbucks coffee? Half a Big Mac in Los Angeles or 1/5th of a Big Mac in Zurich? Is it 200 pennies that one person will step over from time to time or 200 pennies that others will fight to find and…
Change DNA
February 13, 2013Effecting change is a skill just like teaching history, playing a piano, or throwing a football. Being good at it is a combination of inherent ability and learning. Why should it be otherwise? Some people are naturally more comfortable with change, with things like risk and creativity and flexibility. Others are less comfortable. And just…
Being in the Moment
February 12, 2013A theme from my many school visits this last fall was that both students and teachers realize we should take or make more time for reflection. We know that authentic reflection starts with being focused on the moment, taking in what lessons we can when we can, be it in a classroom, on the ball…
Up Into the Jet Stream
February 8, 2013This week I had the chance to talk with David Monaco (@dmonaco), Head at Parish Episcopal in Dallas. He used a phrase that I am going to totally steal and promote and want to give him credit first. He said “I want to get my faculty up into the jet stream” of what is going…
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