I’m listening to Brene Brown‘s latest, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone. In the front half of the book she references a Joesph Campbell quote that reminded me just how challenging and lonesome the work of transforming our schools can be. It also reminded me that we […]
Archives for September 2017
Learner-centered leaders exhibit a start-up, entrepreneurial mindset [#ShiftYourParadigm]
This post is part of a series connected to the podcast Shift Your Paradigm: from school-centered to learner-centered. Lynn and I will be sharing our learning and thinking along the way and cross-posting to the Shift Your Paradigm site. It seems with each episode of the Shift Your Paradigm podcast, we have the opportunity to see […]
Which are the #learnercentered #edtech companies?
An article in the New York times re-surfaced some thoughts and questions I’ve written about in connection with a 2016 trip to Silicon Valley – #PennSV16. While the focus of the article is on the ethics of Silicon Valley courting “brand-name” teachers to promote their wares, I wonder if it’s more about “what’s missing” from the […]