Working At The Edge

Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation

Learner-centered leaders create the space and provide the supports for learners to solve their own problems [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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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. Episode 19 takes us to NH and the MC2 charter school where learning, knowledge, assessment and […]

The Future of Education

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The Edvocate recently reached out to educators and industry experts around the country to gauge their thoughts on the future of education: 106 Experts Share Their Thoughts on the Future of Education. Here are the thoughts I had the opportunity to shared: It is a very exciting time to be in K12 education! It’s also a […]

Learner-centered leaders align every decision, purchase and hire to the needs of learners [#ShiftYourParadigm]

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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. In Episode 18, we had a conversation with leaders and learners from Lindsay Unified School District in CA. […]

Future Focused: The WHY and HOW of shaping the future of learning with exponential technologies

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This post first appeared on EdTech Digest. Today’s Kindergarten students will be graduating in 2030! What will the world be like? How will exponential changes in technology influence changes in teaching and learning? How can we shape the future instead of being shaped by it? Leaders anticipate the future. They stand at the edge of […]

The Technology and Learning Conversation Has Shifted: From Transactional to Transformative

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This post first appeared on EdTech Digest. In a previous article, I shared a framework we’ve engaged to guide our digital transformation over the past seven years. During that period of time, I’ve often noted that the balance of conversations between technology and learning has shifted. Conversations about learning are more prevalent now than they […]

Creating conditions for curiosity

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We know that agency is at the core of the concept of learner-centered, and to release agency we must create the conditions for that to happen. A disposition such as curiosity – the desire to know – cannot be forced or commanded. As leaders, how do we create the desire to know? How do we release […]