Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation
Welcome to Day #1 of the #60DayChallenge! See this post if you need to be brought up to speed! First….a few housekeeping items before we dive in…🏚 Feel free to invite others to the group! Please share this link with them! Leave comments … [Continue reading]
WHAT 60 provocations + 60 mindset shifts = transform the way our kids learn Come join a new conversation about school transformation, examining the intersection of Human-centered LEARNING Human-centered LEADERSHIP The LONGVIEW … [Continue reading]
If you read this blog, you already know that my colleague, Lynn Fuini-Hetten, regularly carve out time in our weekly schedules to support our own learning through podcasting. Specifically, two podcasts: TLTalkRadio and Shift Your Paradigm. Between … [Continue reading]
What's made the last several months in K12 so exhausting is that we continue to try to fit a square peg into a round hole. The global pandemic has changed the shape of the peg, yet we still seem to be holding onto the "normalcy" of pre-pandemic … [Continue reading]
I love thinking about the future, particularly how it will impact how we learn. I love thinking up possible scenarios in the K12 space that might exist as a result of new technologies, and have previously written about how strategic foresight should … [Continue reading]
If you are interested in the learner-centered movement, be sure to take a look at the work from Education Evolving, an organization from Minnesota committed to drawing on three strategic levers to advance the work: thought leadership, policy advocacy … [Continue reading]
In The Answer to How is Yes: Acting on What Matters, Peter Block pushes us to think about the importance of pursuing the why question before answering the how question. Think about it: in your learning environment, what is the ratio of why questions … [Continue reading]
If you've previously read this blog, you are aware that my colleague, Lynn Fuini-Hetten, and I host a podcast (Shift Your Paradigm) that delves into learner-centered education broadly and learner-centered leadership more specifically. We are … [Continue reading]
From vocabulary.com: Radical If something is considered extremist or very different from anything that has come before it, call it radical. The noun, radical, comes from the Latin radix "root," and in fact, radical and root are synonymous as … [Continue reading]
For as long as I've been associated with K12 education (just about 50 years if you go back to when I started going to school), the focus has been dominated by a push model of content dissemination. The curriculum represents a body of knowledge/facts … [Continue reading]