Welcome to the final installment in the #60DayChallenge! Thanks to all who have actively participated by commenting and engaging in dialog and those that chose to share a reaction or just lurk in the background. I hope your thinking has been stimulated around this idea of transforming schooling into something that is focused on what […]

Having spent several decades in formal and informal leadership roles, I’ve been reflecting on who I am as a leader and what I value as I work to transform schooling. I’ve come to realize that much of who I am as a leader and someone who is driven to transform our current system of schooling […]

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel like a solitary voice in a crowd of standardization when I have conversations with people about transforming schooling to be more human-centered. On a recent Knowledge Project podcast, host Shane Parrish interviewed Roger Martin, former Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of […]

I teach a college course titled Teacher as Inquirer. Throughout the course we experience the conditions of being a better educational practitioner through inquiry into our own practice and the act of helping our learners be better inquirers. One of our final activities together is to watch this 4 minute video: The life-changing act of […]

We’ve had a number of posts on connected topics such as the purpose of schooling and challenging the assumptions behind why we do what we do in the current system of schooling. If you or your colleagues are feeling challenged to develop answers to some of these questions posed over the past 8 weeks, I […]

I just watched this conversation with Gary Stager. Appreciated the last three minutes… “purposes of schooling worth mentioning.” Introduce children to things they don’t yet know they love. Model, nurture and sustain democracy — through our practices and conversations. Kids need to spend as much time as possible in the company of interesting adults. Democratize […]

I have to admit, when I use the word futurist, I feel like people conjure up images of someone with a crystal ball predicting what’s in our future. 🔮 Education Reimagined posted an interview with two educators who work in the fields of foresight and design: Educators as Futurists: A Conversation with Stanford d.school Leaders.  […]

This was the question posed in a 2018 article by historian and author Yuval Noah Harari, What kids need to learn to succeed in 2050: The art of reinvention will be the most critical skill of this century. Nobody can predict the future. But we can do two things to intelligently plan for it… Create […]

“We’ve always done it that way!” Why do we do what we do in education? Standardized tests 1:1 technology Grade levels by age Cursive writing Textbooks Standards Homework Honor Roll Discrete subjects Let’s take it one question further…  How does what we do benefit the learner and/or the system?  If we want to transform schooling […]

Back in posts #3 and #23, I introduced KnowledgeWorks Forecast 5.0. Before we hit the end of our #60DayChallenge, I wanted to touch on some of the provocations created by reviewing the Forecast’s accompanying Strategy Guide.  Here’s how KnowledgeWorks introduces the Guide on their site: Navigating the Future of Learning: A Strategy Guide is organized […]