On Saturday, March 5, TEDx NYED will take place in at the New York Academy of Science. For me, last year's TEDx NYED was probably one of the best professional development experiences I've had in a long time. I'm very much looking forward to hearing … [Continue reading]
Mental Complexity
I have been working my way through Kegan and Lahey's Immunity to Change and think it is an important construct for us school leaders to wrap our collective heads around. Plateaus of Mental Complexity (Kegan and Lahey, 2009. Immunity to Change. … [Continue reading]
PETE & C 2011
I sometimes wonder whether the traditional conference format - presenter at the front of the room dishing out loads of information to eager, yet passive, session attendees - works in this day in age. While I certainly struggle in most of these kinds … [Continue reading]
ISTE 2011 Presentation
The ISTE Conference, being held in Philadelphia this year, has gone live with their program database. I'll be involved in a roundtable presentation of the research from my dissertation. Title: Education in the 21st Century: A New Frame of … [Continue reading]
iSchool – New York City
A blog post at the Innovative Educator was an inspiring read. It made me want to learn more about the iSchool project. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c4okPYD8rE] The last sentence from the post:"They (teachers and students) truly must … [Continue reading]
Changing what we value…
...is not easy. Especially if we've valued it most of our lives. It's why, I believe, education is so hard to change. Change requires us to alter our values and beliefs. And people, especially educators, are not willing to do that when it comes to … [Continue reading]
A Vision of Teachers for Today and Beyond
via Quantum Progress I think this short video from Dan Meyer contains so much to help us think about redefining a vision for connected teaching in the 21st century. Some questions worth asking: Do we have leaders ready and able to take us into … [Continue reading]
The Innovation Struggle
Innovation was the focus of the latest Educon 2.3 conference. Since I tend to look at everything through the lens of leadership, I was wondering where leadership and innovation overlap. One of the (what seemed to be) most re-tweeted tweets came from … [Continue reading]
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