• Better Business Planning Begins at the Circus

  Keynote by Lyn Heward at #NAISAC14
  List of all 7 doors or strategies Heward suggests for creativity and innovation #NAISAC14 http://t.co/sIpEJ1pWQq

  tags: creativity innovation iDiploma #MustRead NAISAC14

• A Young Inventor, Finding the Crunch Factor – NYTimes.com

  tags: Innovator innovation #MustRead iDiploma

• How to Get a Job at Google – NYTimes.com

  “Beware. Your degree is not a proxy for your ability to do any job. The world only cares about — and pays off on — what you can do with what you know (and it doesn’t care how you learned it). And in an age when innovation is increasingly a group endeavor, it also cares about a lot of soft skills — leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability and loving to learn and re-learn. This will be true no matter where you go to work.”

  tags: iDiploma nytimes com google jobs 21C hiring #MustRead

• The roots of great design: Ingenuity applied to the ordinary – The Denver Post

  “”We think of design not so much as decoration, but as a creative force that can be used to solve problems,” says Flusche, who defines design as “the convergence of creativity and function.””

  tags: design ingenuity invention innovation iDiploma #MustRead HiddenHeroes

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• What Would Be a Radically Different Vision of School? | MindShift

  ““Modern learning is about the ability to self-organize your education, to create meaning for things that have value in the world and not answer to this institution,” Richardson said.”

  tags: iDiploma real-world real-life Synergy school model School Change #MustRead

  • “We’re a place that can get kids into college.” Now families clamor to get their students into the school, but they didn’t trust the idea at the outset.
  • “Modern learning is about the ability to self-organize your education, to create meaning for things that have value in the world and not answer to this institution,”

• Learning with the Competition – President’s Blog

  tags: #MustRead school model

• How Opening Up Classroom Doors Can Push Education Forward | MindShift

  “But what if teachers embraced the idea of transparency as a form of activism, a way of shining light on what works in the classroom? “The minute we say, ‘Come look and talk to the students,’ we can show what we’re all about,” said Jose Vilson, an educator and panelist at EduCon in Philadelphia. “If we can do that with a sense of trust and expertise, with respect for ourselves and others, then we can have a pro something instead of an anti-something.””

  HT @nicolenmartin

  tags: transparency #MustRead

• The Best Teachers Don’t Do What They’re Told

  tags: #MustRead

• Where the Fish Swims, Ideas Fly – NYTimes.com

  Talk less, Do more. Be in community! All from a fish lamp.

  HT @MeghanCureton. #OneOfMyFavoriteArticlesEver

  tags: #MustRead CLIO

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• Should We Be Engaging OR Empowering Learners? | The Tempered Radical

  tags: engagement empowerment #MustRead

• Simple Truth: Engagement isn’t Something You Do TO Students. | The Tempered Radical

  This is making me think!

  tags: engagement #MustRead

• Embracing Messy Learning | Edutopia

  “I am slowly learning to embrace the struggles that students experience as they engage with authentic work. If I don’t allow learning to be messy, I eliminate authentic experiences for students as thinkers and creators. I find it important to regularly remind myself that frustration leads to insights and that learning is not necessarily the equivalent of mastery.”

  tags: authentic project_management #MustRead Student Voice Synergy iDiploma PBL

  • “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

• What Makes Milpitas a Model for Innovation | EdSurge News

  “iReady”

  tags: blended learning designthinking school model tools #MustRead 1:1

  • Principal Ken Schlaff explains that 10th graders spend three hours a day in a project-based learning class, where they explore cross content in chemistry, language, and world history
  • Three teachers, experts in each content area, teach the class collaboratively, all sharing a common prep time.

• IDEO’s Culture of Helping – Harvard Business Review

  “Few things leaders can do are more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations. In the top-performing companies it is a norm that colleagues support one another’s efforts to do the best work possible. That has always been true for pragmatic reasons: If companies were to operate at peak efficiency without what organizational scholars call “citizenship behavior,” tasks would have to be optimally assigned 100% of the time, projects could not take any unexpected turns, and no part of any project could go faster or slower than anticipated. But mutual helping is even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes depend on creativity in often very complex projects. Beyond simple workload sharing, collaborative help comes to the fore—lending perspective, experience, and expertise that improve the quality and execution of ideas.”

  tags: #mustread collaboration

• Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking | Integrative Innovation

  How #DesignThinking and #LeanStartUp can synergize.

  tags: leanstartup designthinking #MustRead iDiploma

• A Work in Progress: Growth Minded Assessment – Growth Mindset Blog

  HT @nicolenmartin

  tags: mindset math assessment #MustRead

• IFTF: Future of Learning: From Assigning to Enticing with Content

  tags: learning Future of Learning #MustRead

  • given an enormous range of learning choices, they might voluntarily flock to topics they’re passionate about

• The More I Lecture, The Less I Know If They Understand

  tags: lecture pedagogy instruction teaching instructional methods methods #MustRead engagement

• No More Genius Hours, 20% Time or FedEx Days | Findings

  Bill of Rights for Self-Determined Learning via @BombayScot [note to self: interesting serendipity this morning w/ re-discovering McIntosh essay on privilege]

  tags: geniushour 20percenttime FedEx Day learning billofrights #MustRead

• Student Choice and Classrooms of the Future – President’s Blog

  President of NAIS, John Chubb, looks at Hillbrook iLab and other learning spaces – concludes that it’s not even as much about the space as it is about student choice driving the learning engagement and pedagogy. Environment is a third teacher in establishing such student-driven exploration and ownership of learning.

  tags: classrooms #MustRead schooldesign school model NAIS Student Voice choice

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• Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline – NYTimes.com

  ““The reality is that to survive in a fast-changing world you need to be creative,””

  HT @MeghanCureton & Helen Wills

  tags: creativity iDiploma #MustRead

  • everyone is creative, and can learn to be more so.
  • real genius, of course, is in the how.
  • “I am an absolute evangelist about the value of failure as part of creativity,”
  • Because academics run from failure, Mr. Keywell says, universities are “way too often shapers of formulaic minds,” and encourage students to repeat and internalize fail-safe ideas.

• The End of Work is Where Creatives Begin – Explore Create Repeat – by 4ormat

  “There’s a new kind of trickle-down effect, and it starts with innovation occurring in spheres of creative enterprise and drips into mainstream culture”

  tags: jobs workforce culture #MustRead

  • By the time the mainstream has picked up a good idea, creatives have moved onto the next.
  • Today there’s a renewed focus on the “meaningfulness” of our work, which means a shift away from money as the sole motivating factor to do our jobs.
  • The desire to offer, and excel at, a particular skill set is characteristically human.
  • we all want to be at the peak of our abilities while also having the opportunity to apply them in collaborative ways.
  • heightened preference for developing niche specialities and functional networks between them

• Looked at the images & knew this would be a wi

  “The Difference Between Knowledge and Experience” @boadams1 #goodread http://t.co/HTUJUWjdmJ
  Looked at the images & knew this would be a winner! MT @treyboden Difference Between Knowledge & Experience @boadams1 http://t.co/fbaEPBzxi0

  tags: goodread knowledge experience real-life Synergy #MustRead

• Share This With All the Schools, Please | Momastery

  tags: assessment #MustRead patterns math ethnography pedagography advisement social-emotional

• 27 Characteristics Of Authentic Assessment

  tags: assessment #MustRead wiggins authentic authenticassessment

• Are Your Students Engaged? Don’t Be So Sure | MindShift

  ” better understand student engagement, challenge the myths around it, and make it a higher priority”

  [HT @cliffordshelley]

  tags: engagement #MustRead motivation student engagement

• ‘Teacherpreneurs’ vie for ed-tech startup funds in ‘Shark Tank’ scene – CNN.com

  tags: #MustRead startup teacherprenuer MVIFI

• Empathic Innovation – The Hub Magazine – Jan/Feb 2014 digital edition

  Empathic Innovation

  tags: design thinking designthinking empathy innovation #MustRead

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