My older brother, Brad, has just retired after a life-long career in secondary education. He was a legendary AP US History teacher, vice principal and principal of large public high schools in southern California, and retired as Asst. Superintendent of San Marcos School District. He and I have been discussing what we all now call [...]
Last fall, David Kelley was kind enough to participate in a fireside chat on the popular weekly #DTK12CHAT that links educators who are interested in how design thinking can be embedded more deeply and purposefully in K-12 education. If you don’t know, David was co-founder of global design thinking firm IDEO and a principal founder [...]
Am sitting in on a workshop with Howard Teibel and business officers related to leading and managing change. He used this video; it totally cracked up the room and is SO appropriate in so many ways! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg Happy Sunday!
“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people…” American Declaration of Independence “You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’ George Bernard Shaw, and later, Robert Kennedy My musings today are just another [...]
If you are attending NAIS 2014 and/or NBOA in Orlando in the next two weeks, or members of your team plan to attend, I just wanted to pass along my schedule of workshops: NAIS: Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1 PM: "Why School?", with Will Richardson, Susan Droke, and Cathy Kyle. Friday, Feb. 28, 8 AM "Mutation, [...]
Yes, I am a very proud dad. But most of my readers are involved in education, so what lessons can we share with our students from what follows? At least two, I think: the powerful link between passion and purpose, and the untapped potential of "one person doing". As many of you know, our daughter, [...]
I may have lied; I think this series may be seven posts, not six. I leave open the possibility of corrections along the way, and last night I realized I had left out a key step in shifting from worn out strategic planning models to a more nimble and dynamic approach. And it is a [...]
I have studied problem solving and the arts of strategy for decades, and their application to schools for more than 15 years. Simply, school organizations have gotten strategy wrong; we have been active but ineffective problem solvers. During times of relative stasis, that is a condition we can live with; during times of dynamic change [...]
Last night Bo Adams and I were honored to chat about the nature and strengths of design thinking and its role in K-12 education. This Fireside Chat was organized under the auspices of the weekly #DTk12Chat on Twitter which takes place on Wednesdays at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT. It is routinely attended by dozens [...]
If, like me, you are less than a mathematical prodigy, any study of Chaos Theory other than the popular model for civilians is beyond our reach. But even at that non-rigorous level, we find that there are few concurrences more elegant, observable, repeatable, and downright beautiful than the fractal patterns of our world. We find [...]