The existing state of affairs in the environment, education, healthcare, workers rights, nutrition, transportation, energy or in many other areas leads people to look for change. Focusing on the preferred future rather than just steps away from the current situation has the potential to lead to transformative change. Further, when a community of people focus
How does important, complicated, and serious work get done?
Think putting a man on the moon. Think bring Apollo 13 home. Through collaboration! Our times require us all to be willing, able and effective in our collaborations within and across networks. We need to be explores of the power and potential of ‘interdependence’ because we and others are investors, owners, caretakers and creators
Groups – Cooperation – and the number of Women in the Group
According to Science Daily:“When it comes to intelligence, the whole can indeed be greater than the sum of its parts. A new study co-authored by MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and Union College researchers documents the existence of collective intelligence among groups of people who cooperate well, showing that such intelligence extends beyond the cognitive abilities
How did testing and accountability become the main levers of school reform? ~ Diane Ravitch
We all need to stop and think deeply about what we want for all children. I am convinced that the ‘easy answer’ of letting narrow products, “tests”, measure the value of schools to our society is foolhardy! Further, I am convinced that our society needs to be investing in ways to improve education for all
Many More Students Learning At Higher Levels: Appreciating Both the Potential and the Complexity
We will benefit by appreciating both the complexity of dramatically improve education and the opportunity to uncap much more potential of our youth as we tackle the challenges ahead to improving education. There is no way to avoid appreciating the complexity of the many challenges related to improving education: poverty levels for children rising in
Qualities of Effective Collaborators
Appreciate the nature of adult learning Embrace the uniqueness of each adult and interact in ways that sincerely appreciate and connect with the individual Celebrate the fact that your work requires effectively listening to and understanding the individuals you serve so that you can help them identify and connect with their specific growth Respect
It is time for an open conversation about education!
Turning over public assets, disregarding teachers voices and placing products (tests) above all else is, from my perspective, misguided policy. We all need to stop and think about what we want for our children and
The Value of Ignorance
Stuart Firestein, the author of Ignorance: How It Drives Science uses the word ignorance, at least in part, to be intentionally provocative. But let’s take a moment to define the kind of ignorance that Firestein is referring to it, because ignorance as many bad connotations, especially in common usage, and he doesn’t mean any of
Educators will face conflict – How we meet it matters!!!!
Conflict can lead to positive shared conclusions. Today’s post has words like: ‘war’ and ‘violence’ in it because those words are those words are the words of the author I am quoting. They conjure up ‘jarring’ concepts. Conflict is ‘jarring’. Conflict is present in around the work of schools. School leaders can hope the disagreements
Questions Related to Pursuing the American Dream
The following information is current and provides food for thought about the current reality of Pursuing the American Dream: Economic Mobility Across Generations (which is the title of the report Written by The Pew Charitable Trusts). I am sharing what follows because questions come to my mind as I think about this data. Americans’ relative
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