You spoke; we listened. And, to celebrate and support you we designed the Survey Says webinar series. Please join us Tuesday, May 5 at 7pm ET for a special Teacher Appreciation Week edition where we will share “Celebrating STEM in the Classroom”. To see our previous posts from the series: https://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2015/01/28/survey-says-creativity/ A certificate of
Thinking Together, Working Together and Playing Together
CBS News presents a story that makes a strong case for thinking together, working together and playing together as very good things. This is a story of Michigan middle school that plan and implemented actions that made a difference for a fellow student and potentially helped many others to see the value of their motives
Design Thinking: Where our thinking starts will effect where our thinking goes
There is a big difference between the probe “What’s wrong?” and the probe “What works?” Below you will find a graphic based on the thinking of a successful architect. Peter Saurcerman, an architect for 35 years in Northern California. He believes that groups thinking together in response to the “What works?” probe will be more
Teacher Appreciation Week
Blog post written by Kelsey Johnson. Two weeks ago, we celebrated Administrative Professionals Day and the work of the Administrative staff. Today, we turn our appreciation towards recognizing all of the teachers! May 6th– May 10th is a week geared towards thanking our teachers and all of
Focus Forward
Read more about appreciating the present while setting your sites on a preferred future by checking out these three posts: http://jerryjennings.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/apprecitive-inquiry-is-in-part-about-asking-q/ http://jerryjennings.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/130934146/ http://jerryjennings.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/appreciate-the-present-dream-about-the-preferred-future-and-move-toward-the-dream/
What does it mean to get better at thinking together?
Most of us would likely agree that it is pretty easy to think with people who hold about the same set of thoughts we hold. Yet, truly thinking with others means thinking with those who might look at things very differently from you. When you effectively engage with others who think differently than you, you
Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Frame for Moving into the Furture
How a leader shows up matters. What a leader believes matters. The leader’s ‘frame’ makes a difference. Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Kae Rader in their book: Appreciative Leadership help leaders to develop their skills and attitudes related to helping to bring about positive systemic change. The following four attributes are those common to leaders
Successful adaptations to change are to be celebrated and appreciated
Transition is a reality in schools and families with children this time of year. A new school year means students move from grade to grade. This time of year, there is a lot of transition going on in the lives of our students. Young people face many new situations: the changes of teachers, the changes
Appreciative Inquiry: Bulding Capacity
In our families, at work, in our communities, in the state and/or nation and globally there are issues. Will have enough food, water, energy, educational opportunities? Will our family, work place, and the people of our community, state, nation and world be able to be part of positive change? Can the future be an improvement
Martin Luther King Jr. Challenged Us to All Think Critically
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in the Morehouse College newspaper The Marion Tiger in the January – February issue of 1947 about his concern for what it means to be truly educated. Among his comments were these: “To think incisively and to think for one’s self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded