What does student ownership of learning look like? How do even young students rapidly engage when given the freedom to ask expansive questions? Do students really need to start at the bottom of Bloom’s Taxonomy before building to abstraction and synthesis? Do we even begin to tap the insights of students that would contribute richly [...]
As individuals and as schools, do we want to be successful or significant? Great or leading? What are common elements of the disruptions and mutations facing both K-12 and higher education? I was honored to share the stage with Dr. John Fry, president of Drexel University at the annual meeting of trustees and heads of [...]
I have just wrapped up a week at the East Asian Regional Council of Schools conference in Malaysia. Some observations on independent schools in Asia: The economies in many or most Asian countries, combined with an extraordinary (healthy or not?) cultural obsession with academic success, has created an enormous market demand for K-12 schools. Even [...]
I had a telephone interview two weeks ago with Kim Greene of Scholastic Administrator Magazine, and the article was posted online a few days ago. It covers some of the key lessons of #EdJourney. Another upcoming article which I can't wait to see is an online interview I did with Polish magazine "Sygnal"; the translations [...]
It has been a busy week, so catching up on resources to share: I had a full day at Summit School in Winston-Salem, NC. In the evening we invited the community in for a conversation on the future of education; you can watch the video of the presentation here. I was also interviewed on Fox [...]
I am/was a Dead Head; not the kind who followed the band around the country camped out in decrepit cars begging tickets and hand-outs for food, but enough to drive a few hours to a county park or Berkeley for a Sunday afternoon with friends whenever the Dead were in town. Rolling Stone just published [...]
Are your teacher teams working at peak performance to help bring about school innovation and change? It's sometimes easy in the late spring or dog days of August to gather ourselves and build a vision of deep, impactful learning for our students and ourselves. Then the hard work and long days of the school year take hold [...]
We all know that the friendliest people on earth live in New Zealand...and so do many wonderful, passionate, forward-leaning K-12 educator-learners! We had a wonderful live video chat and Twitter back channel this week attended by MANY Kiwis as well as colleagues from Australia and Asia. I was happy and honored to stay up late to share [...]
Are "no excuses" the new "grit"? Last year in this space we shared a deep dive into the evolving meanings and educational efficacy of "grit" as popularized in the studies and writings of Angela Duckworth and others. Yesterday I bumped into similarly disorienting experiences with the term "no excuses". I visited ground zero of the growing [...]
Honored that Jossey-Bass Education featured #EdJourney as their K-12 book of the week! I have been moderating some Twitter ed-chats, and have a few more lined up for the fall. It is a great way to get our thinking focused on the keys to school innovation; if you know a Twitter chat moderator who might [...]