We’ll make this short today. But while short, lots to think about… This article resonated with me: Why does it take programmatic shifts to implement CBE? A school & vendor partnership  Why? ..you ask. Because they understand that transforming a system requires changing structures and changing mindsets. Here’s what they did…you can see how these […]

The Pareto Principle states that a small amount of some phenomenon causes a disproportionately large effect. It’s sometimes referred to as the 80/20 rule. From our work and conversations with school leaders on the Shift Your Paradigm podcast, we’ve learned that understanding agency is one of the key leverage points.  One we shift our thinking […]

In the last week I came across an article that prompted my thinking about leadership in the learner-centered paradigm: From 7 Superintendents: What 2020 Taught Us About  Leading.  It’s a quick read… 📖 And don’t worry…you can extract meaning from the words regardless of your role in education…. Two (maybe three) principles underlying their actions […]

Video Wednesday! 📽 Last month, the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), an international organization, published an interesting future-focused report: Back to the future of education: Four OECD Scenarios for Schooling. The OECD also published a companion short video describing the four scenarios–baseline and transformational–presented in the report. Take two minutes to review […]

#16 of 60: Learn, unlearn, relearn: How do we rethink leadership to meet the needs of learners and society? 🤔🤔🤔 In yesterday’s post we explored rethinking the role of teacher. In this post, you guessed it, we take a look at some work being done to rethink the role of leadership in human-centered environments. In […]

Late in 2020, we saw the release of the 2nd Edition of the Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Teaching.  Couple of observations….👀 First, a human-centered thread is obvious. Instead of focusing solely on the technical requirements of teaching, we see important human-centered mindsets reflected in the Intrapersonal Domain (Need to Reflect) * Dedication to all […]

I spent some time over the last few days re-reading the comments/interactions in all of the posts over the past two weeks. (Thank you for engaging in these important conversations! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻) I’m finding a theme of flourishing woven throughout the contributions, directly and indirectly. I’m curious what you think…. We read earlier (post #1) how […]

Earlier in the #60daychallenge I referenced The Adaptation Advantage by Heather McGowen and Chris Shipley. One of my favorite components of the book are the charts 📊. Early on the authors share two contrasting charts representing the impact of longevity (and vitality) on our mental models of career, learning, education, retirement and the like. Take […]

Last week, I ran across an article originally published in October 2020. The title resonates with our work here:” Educator as futurist: Moving beyond “Preparing for the Future” to “Shaping the Future” This sentence below and the later question, in particular, reminded me to expand my thinking about planning for the future. It’s not just […]

In an earlier post, the question of first principles of learning was posed: What are the principles of learning on which we can build human-centered systems and organizations? A number of years ago, my colleague Lynn Fuini Hetten and I asked a related question regarding leadership: If the transformation of education requires a paradigm shift […]