• The Kieve-Wavus Educator’s Conference | Emergence

  Beautiful conference description – that “label” does it little justice. It’s really a deep and thoughtful synthesis and advancement of research and practice in educational innovation! Full of links.

  tags: student centered studentdriven emergence #MustRead

• What Creativity Actually Looks Like, Revisited | The Learning Pond

  Facilitating opportunities to explore learning landscapes, driven by curiosity, nurtured by teacher-Sherpa. Let student-Learners build the bridges and imagine/create ways to uncover mesas and fill voids of not knowing.

  tags: creativity student centered inquiry-based Synergy futureofed #MustRead

• The Tyranny of Perfection – Explore. Create. Repeat. – by 4ormat

  “Intolerance of anything less than our absolute best, even on initial mock-ups or prototypes, can be the biggest threat to the creative process. For anyone in the business of selling some form of creativity, that’s akin to erecting your own tombstone.” There are a number of excellent points in this brief article, all of which make me wonder how we are systemically and purposefully designing the structures of school to nurture and promote creativity among our learners – adults and students.

  tags: perfection creativity #MustRead

• Innovate, Create, Educate: Blurring the Lines of Learning

  “While these students have created something remarkable, I wonder what would have happened if they were encouraged to work on this personal project during the school day?” [#Amen!]

  tags: ActionEd #MustRead

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• Stanford Magazine – Sparks Fly – March/April 2011

  tags: design thinking designthinking d.school #MustRead ActionEd

• Most Audacious Companies: Menlo Innovations | Inc.com

  With a team at MVPS, I am participating in a Stanford d.school course called “Design Thinking Action Lab.” During the intro of the course, this article was recommended. It’s a great example of a few different ways to imagine workflow and process. The stories would make great experiments (practices) for school faculty/admin!

  [NOTE: I’m also vacationing this week, so the #MustRead Shares is lighter this week – just some reading from the courses I am taking.]

  tags: process workflow innovation time space teamwork collaboration #MustRead

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• 6 Questions To Ask Yourself About Learning Outcome Assessment | The Puzzle

  “We are pleased to share the wisdom of Jonathan E. Martin, experienced independent school head and principal of his new educational consulting practice, JonathanEMartin Ed. Services.  Today, he recommends the six questions independent school educators should ask themselves this summer about Learning Outcome Assessment at their schools.  Here’s what he recommends:”
  [H/T @jbrettjacobsen]

  tags: LOA assessment CSA jonathanemartin learningoutcomeassessment #MustRead

• Math Munch | A Weekly Digest of the Mathematical Internet

  tags: math #MustRead resources integrated studies

• Congruent Thinking on Future of K12 via IFTF.org | The Learning Pond

  5 “dimensions of ed transformation” that all school leaders need to be considering. Great catalysts and provocations for thinking. 

  tags: Future of Learning edreform transformation grantlichtman #MustRead

• What Does It Mean To Be A Change Leader in Education?

  Common practices shared by successful change leaders in education, as detailed by @DrTonyWagner

  tags: change leader #MustRead transformation Wagner

• International Center for Leadership in Education – Rigor, Relevance, Relationships

  tags: rigor relevance relationships Wagner Framework taxonomy #MustRead #TDed

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• Make Your Organization Anti-Fragile – Brad Power – Harvard Business Review

  “Many large, successful organizations are more fragile than they seem. They break under stress. Remember the travails of Kodak, Digital Equipment Corp., and Washington Mutual? In their heyday, they were dominant players in their sectors. All disappeared. Why do relatively few companies prove resilient and withstand stress? And why are even fewer “anti-fragile” — that is, they get stronger when stressed?”
  [H/T @_brianjarvis for re-bringing this incredible provocation to my attention]

  Interesting that the article references how biological systems “gain from disorder.” With much disorder in this VUCA world, I become increasingly convinced that schools must intentionally become less like industrial machines and more like biomimic’d ecosystems. (Something @GrantLichtman and I discuss incessantly)

  tags: organization Antifragile HBR leadership startup ecosystem pedagography learning pond #MustRead

• Engineering the Future (The Garage of the Mind) | DCulberhouse

  @DCulberhouse enjoying writing on change ldrsp. @GrantLichtman @boadams1 @jbrettjacobsen @jgough “forward thinkering” http://t.co/kGnakSLr3F

  tags: change transformation leadership mindset #MustRead

• On Writing With Others – NYTimes.com

  IMHO, this is a beautiful piece – both on the surface and as a deep, provocative metaphor. Who are our true co-authors as classroom teachers, administrators, educators? Coaching staffs seem to be way ahead of “us” on this. My co-teaching partnership was invaluable, and I wish more educators could work with a co-author. It would be better for us, and better for the children. I guess we let “cost effective” stand in our way. 

  tags: writing nytimes com collaboration co-author #MustRead

• The Age Of The Learner And A (Disruptive Mindset) | DCulberhouse

  “Working in an ever-evolving state of creating, recreating, recasting and re-imagining the world around us.” (H/T @akytle)

  tags: leadership learning learner #MustRead mindset

• Break Down, Rebuild, Start Fresh | Powerful Learning Practice

  “Taking the posture of a learner first, educator second requires us to understand that we will never arrive at the place of “super educator.” The truth is that even if we solve the problems facing us as a profession, the solutions will only give way to new problems. Now more than ever we need to become the learners we have always wanted our students to be. We do not need information about teaching and learning. We need revelation.”

  tags: edreform Ed transformation positivepsychology #MustRead

• How and Why to Be a Leader (Not a Wannabe) – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review

  “Leadership — true leadership —is a lost art. Leaders lead us not to a place — but to a different kind of destination: to our better, truer selves. It is an act of love in the face of an uncertain world.”

  tags: leader leadership #MustRead

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• Badges Now | HASTAC

  “Digital or Open Badging is the first real alternative to one-best-answer testing that both has those features and addresses key other learning objectives–and, it must be added, is being adopted in numbers that make its acceptance as an alternative system feasible.  With the announcement of the Clinton Global Initiative’s adoption of badges, the Chicago Summer of Learning, and universities, informal learning centers, and many other programs devising new badging systems it is possible that we are on the verge of a major change in “how we measure,” one that better counts what we value and values what we count.”

  tags: badges assessment #MustRead

• Starting With Why: The Power of Student-Driven Learning

  “I think teachers and school organizations need to ask themselves the Why questions, beginning with: Why do we own the learning and not our students? Or, as Will Richardson so eloquently posits, Why School?
  Why do we have so many students like the one I know, frustrated and bored, just waiting to be challenged? We’ve made education about manipulation and hoops instead of inspiring our students to pursue learning that matters to them — learning that can help them make a difference in our communities and the world.”

  tags: student centered #MustRead

• Innovate, Create, Educate: What Happens When Students are Invited to Redesign Learning?

  What Happens When Students are Invited to Redesign http://t.co/kSVkhPkHna @boadams1 have U heard abt @stuEdcon https://t.co/WN8qY3u9bQ

  tags: schooldesign edreform Student Voice #MustRead

• Personalization. | Living the Dream

  “Continually shoehorning student learning in a path that a computer decides is necessary is not the most interesting or empowering version of personalization.”

  tags: personalization #MustRead

• PROCESS POST: What is a Community of Practice? | Craig Lambert Blog

  tags: DeliberatePractice #MustRead

• PROCESS POST: Register This | Craig Lambert Blog

  tags: DeliberatePractice #MustRead

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