Final Video Interview from #EdJourney; Thanks Bo Adams and Unboundary!
December 17, 2012Many of you have followed along on my trip around the country, and it would not have been as well articulated without the weekly video catch-ups with Bo Adams of Unboundary along the way. We did the final episode last Friday, unfortunately just as the news from Newton was coming out. But after a moment…
Low-Tech, High-Learning via Peter Gow
December 13, 2012I am catching up on my blog reading, and Peter Gow’s observations about a middle school class discussion really resonated with me from my own many school observations on the road trip. Peter says that the discussion was ridiculously high level, and yet many of the trappings of “21C” were not present; it was just…
Questions, Optimism via Mark Crotty, St. John’s Episcopal: Now the Work Starts!
December 13, 2012Mark Crotty is Head at St. John’s Episcopal School in Dallas, another great school that I just did not have time to visit on my recently concluded national tour. He has been kind enough to follow via my blog, and over Thanksgiving posted on his own blog some of the questions that my reporting raised. …
Official Summary of (Mostly) Non-School Lessons of EdJourney
December 12, 2012A journey is about what we learn, both intentionally and by being open. Thanks in large part to the incredible support I received from all of you who have followed and shared this journey, I had the enthusiasm to write up most of those intentional lessons. But I have kept track of some of those…
PDS Memphis Shares Specific, Imaginative Examples of Technology in Learning
December 11, 2012As I mentioned last week. Presbyterian Day School in Memphis is doing some really interesting work with embedded technology, starting at early grade levels. They started to share it all with me in person and I got out of my depth in a hurry. Then I tried to capture and embed all of the rich…
Diverse, Creative Faculty Preserve a Tradition of Innovation at Greenhill School, Dallas
December 10, 2012The journey has been long, and I might have run out of steam before visiting the 64th and last school on this remarkable trip. But my hosts made sure that was not the case. A day at Greenhill School in Dallas was the perfect final chapter, a visit packed with that combination of exciting programs…
The Mission is the Message at Parish Episcopal, Dallas
December 9, 2012Some schools with long histories find it hard to change due to a legacy of success and the inevitably of inertia. Some schools with short histories find it easy to change but hard to build a legacy of success. Then there are the “tweeners”, small schools with a long history that make a sudden growth…
On the Road Home
December 6, 2012I just pulled into Abilene, Texas, having turned the nose of my Prius toward the setting sun for the next couple of days. I have great visits yesterday and today at Parish Episcopal and Greenhill in Dallas, and just wanted to say that I will not be able to get to the write-ups for a…
STEM Opportunities for Girls Lead Innovation at Hockaday, Dallas
December 5, 2012As a testament to the passion with which so many educators embrace the need to fundamentally change how we teach, the 60th (or thereabouts) visit of my trip was just as rich and engaging as the first, with new approaches and models that we all can share. I had not planned to visit The Hockaday…
Students Dig Deep, Design Their Futures at Townview Center, Dallas ISD
December 4, 2012I have not visited as many public schools on this trip as I would have liked, but each one has something to offer all of us, public or private. Today’s visit at Townview Center Magnet in Dallas was no exception. Innovation means different things to different organizations, but for all schools it should mean changing…
Video Interview With Bo Adams, Week 11 of EdJourney
December 3, 2012Thanks to Bo Adams from design thinking group Unboundary for continuing to follow and help me on my journey. Here is the video we shot today; you can see the full post, including Bo’s thoughtful selection of comments regarding the search for elegance we want for our students from The Falconer on his blog, It’s…
Fluidity Breeds Engaged, Highly Differentiated Learning at Presbyterian Day School
December 2, 2012I spent most of my third day at Presbyterian Day School in the early childhood wing, with a reading group that could be a model for any grade level and the technology group. I also revisited the Learning Studio, the heart of what appears to be a revolutionary method of differentiated learning. Here are some…
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