• http://m.good.is/posts/are-we-educating-for-capitalism-or-democracy

  “If so many of our aspirations in the classroom are governed by the service we provide to “the future”-whether that’s the next grade level, college, or career-I wonder why we can’t together think more creatively, and generatively, about a dynamic vision of a future students can create, rather than a static vision of a marketplace they should simply service.”

  tags: Democracy Dewey Thinnes edreform progressive education #MustRead

• Countering the Authoritarian Reform Agenda

  Don’t miss @JackHassard on “Progressive Principles in Politics & Education” http://t.co/SkBab2gHCh @pgow @grantlichtman @boadams1

  tags: progressive education edreform #MustRead

  • I am going to argue in this post that pro­gres­sive values should set the ide­als of teach­ing and learn­ing in American society. These values are rooted in de­moc­ratic ide­als and citiz­en ac­tion. Un­for­tunate­ly the cloud of aut­horitarian­ism looms over educa­tion, mak­ing it dif­ficult to de­sign cur­riculum and in­struc­tion around pro­gres­sive values.

• Hillbrook iLab Learning can look like THIS

  tags: pedagogicalmasterplanning learning environment iLab Hillbrook Purpose #MustRead

• swissmiss | /Purpose

  tags: purpose #MustRead

• If Robots Will Run the World, What Should Students Learn? | MindShift

  This piece is great… And not really about robots.

  “School, he said, should focus on teaching young people the intangibles, the things that make humans unique: relationships, flexibility, humanity, how to make discriminating decisions, resilience, innovation, adaptability, wisdom, ethics, curiosity, how to ask good questions, synthesizing and integrating information, and of course, creating.”

  tags: creativity MindShift real-world PBL pedagogy #MustRead

• Seth’s Blog: Urgent, please read asap

  tags: seth urgent important time #MustRead

• What You’ll Do Next – NYTimes.com

  “One of my take-aways is that big data is really good at telling you what to pay attention to. It can tell you what sort of student is likely to fall behind. But then to actually intervene to help that student, you have to get back in the world of causality, back into the world of responsibility, back in the world of advising someone to do x because it will cause y.”

  tags: bigdata nytimes com #MustRead

• How Design Can Change a CEO’s Life | LinkedIn

  “I have increasingly become a believer that design can be used to aid leaders in navigating today’s complex landscape. Design gives us the ability to see data visually and spatially, and governed by systematic principles. It cuts through information overload that provides a path to see “the whole”. After all, the word “design” comes from the German word gestaltung, meaning “shape” or “form” – in essence, how we see the big picture and can make sense of aspects of our world. Design affords a toolkit of core principles that straddles the line between beauty and functionality and that goes well beyond “making something pretty”.”

  tags: design linkedin leadership #MustRead

• I used to think… | Wright’sRoom

  “I’m becoming a better teacher by giving up a lot of what I used to think.”

  tags: #MustRead

• Wright’sRoom | Pondering education, technology, and making a difference

  tags: #MustRead

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• But Then What Did They Know? | SAIS News

  tags: Quotes #MustRead

• Education Week: 3-D Printing Initiative in U.S. School Attracts International Visitors

  Charlottesville schools partner with universities to bring maker learning into classrooms.

  tags: Maker #MustRead PBL 3Dprinter

• Dewey Ever! The Enduring Vision of John Dewey – Independent Schools, Common Perspectives – Education Week

  “Educators in the last few decades have taken much of what Dewey laid out–the need to understand children’s brains and interests, the need for learning to be interactive and experiential, the importance of creativity and craft in the learning process, the centrality of planned and responsive teaching–and applied to it the latest research on cognition, social psychology and organization, and curriculum and assessment design. All this later research has strengthened the philosophical and methodological framework established by Dewey and his followers.”

  tags: dewey progressive education 21C grantlichtman #MustRead

• “The Root, Stem, Leaves, & Fruit of American Education” [Part 1] | chris.thinnes.me

  “The driving question to which we need to calibrate our efforts is simply this: “What is the goal of education in our country?””

  tags: Thinnes progressive education futureofed #MustRead

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• Socrates (In The Form Of A 9-Year-Old) Shows Up In A Suburban Backyard In Washington : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR

  “These kids are encouraged to think out loud, to say what they think, even if they might be wrong. Each is appreciated. The parents, he says, “are also in awe of their children.” And that frees them.

  “I think there are a lot of kids who think about interesting things,” Zia says. “It’s my guess no one really asks them about it.”

  Maybe that’s what this family does: They turn to their kids, and they ask.”

  tags: socrates wonders wisdom npr #MustRead #MustSee

  • Where, I wondered, did he learn about multiverses, free will, the odds of intelligent life in the universe? How does he manage to be so aware of what he doesn’t know?
  • These kids are encouraged to think out loud, to say what they think, even if they might be wrong. Each is appreciated. The parents, he says, “are also in awe of their children.” And that frees them.

• The Discipline of Managing Disruption

  tags: disruption change Christensen #MustRead

• A Radically Practical Vision of Education | EdSurge News

  “In a world that’s changing so rapidly, why wouldn’t you build our education system around what we don’t know rather than around what we do?”

  tags: vision education EdSurge #MustRead

• Waypoints of the path of wisdom | Experiments in Learning by Doing

  tags: questioning #MustRead

• Visualization as Process, Not Output – Jer Thorp – Harvard Business Review

  “By thinking about visualization as a process instead of an outcome, we arm ourselves with an incredibly powerful thinking tool.” Part of the power of PMP – visualizing our schools’ pedagogical ecosystems so that we can unlock the ideas for systemic transformation.

  tags: visualization process design pedagogicalmasterplanning #MustRead

• Change or Die | Fast Company

  tags: change #MustRead

• Forget About Influence And Change Management, It’s Time To Lead A Revolution! | Digital Tonto

  tags: influence change revolution #MustRead networks tribes

• A Faculty Handbook that Answers the Question “How Can I Be Successful Here” | SAIS News

  “Policies and procedures are important, but the real employee handbook, well thumbed and annotated, should read, “How to help students learn.””

  tags: faculty handbook #MustRead

• Need a Job? Invent It – NYTimes.com

  tags: School Change edreform Ed transformation Wagner #MustRead

• The Creativity Cure – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: creativity #MustRead

  • Creativity should instead be infused across the curriculum and assessments,

• Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead? – NYTimes.com

  tags: giving nytimes com give #MustRead

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• The Critical Move From Vision to Action: St. Christopher’s School, Richmond | The Learning Pond

  “If a school organization asks people to implement classroom tactics aligned with a vision of innovation, asks people to do things differently than they have in the past, the school needs to provide three things: a clear, overarching articulation of how these changes en toto support the vision; a picture of what innovation looks like; and the time and resources to learn the new skills they require. The second two are a matter of resource alignment: spend some money and send people out in to the world to see what analogs are working for other schools.  The first issue requires a critical step in planning between the vision statement and the classroom tactics.  The school needs to make sure that their systems are compatible with the new pedagogy.”

  tags: vision action pedagogicalmasterplanning #MustRead

• Education Week: Which Path for the Common Core?

  tags: CCSS #MustRead

• Three Huge Mistakes We Make Leading Kids…and How to Correct Them

  “While I applaud the engagement of this generation of parents and teachers, it’s important to recognize the unintended consequences of our engagement. We want the best for our students, but research now shows that our “over-protection, over-connection” style has damaged them. Let me suggest three huge mistakes we’ve made leading this generation of kids and how we must correct them.”

  tags: parenting learning mistakes #MustRead

• Why the Creative Class Needs to ‘Lean in’ to Education Reform | Education on GOOD

  tags: education reform design creativity colab #MustRead

• Kids don’t hate history, they hate the way we teach it | History Tech

  “He was very clear about it:

  ‘Kids don’t hate history. They hate the way we teach it.’

  I couldn’t agree more.”

  tags: history pedagogy pedagogicalmasterplanning #MustRead instruction

• Seth’s Blog: Toward zero unemployment

  “build these assets with novelty, with a fresh approach to an old problem, with a human touch that is worth talking about.”

  tags: seth leadership #MustRead

• Why Innovating Is About Doing, Not Talking | LinkedIn

  To become a better innovator, it’s all about experiencing as many cycles of doing as you can.

  tags: innovation #MustRead

• Why Are the Students In Your Class? | Practical Theory

  “This is our challenge – to help every student we teach find the reason they are in our class. We must strive to ensure that the time we spend together will help every student become a better citizen and person, both today, and in the future. Our classrooms must then be lenses on the world, not just for the students who fall in love with the same content we love, but for every child.”

  tags: #MustRead

• Sergei Abramov’s goal: an educational blog that doesn’t bore his fellow Russian teens – CSMonitor.com

  “The main message I’d like to promote is ‘Develop yourself, explore the world around you, and try to do something to make a change,’ ” he says.”

  Another example of self-motivated learning. It remains interesting to me that a number of examples of self-motivated learning come into conflict with “schooling.” But isn’t the learning that is happening with this example (many of these examples) exactly what we want our students to pursue, learn, develop, etc.?

  tags: self-initiated control motivation schoolreform #MustRead

• Organize | Practical Theory

  tags: pedagogicalmasterplanning #MustRead

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• 4 Words You Should Never Say to Your Boss | Brazen Life

  An important reminder for us educators to beware things like, “I am a math teacher.” Implies a certain focus of the job. While it might sound corny, I wish we called ourselves “facilitators of learning.” That covers all manners of work in a school/learning setting!

  tags: #MustRead

• Brand New IDEO: Michael Hendrix and Paul Bennett on the Global Design Consultancy’s Upcoming 24-Hour Make-a-Thon – Core77

  “We build to think.” IDEO uses a Make-a-Thon to engage in a creative ideation exercise about… itself. What if schools did this more?!

  tags: brand ideo design consultancy #MustRead

• Capturing the character of the IBM brand | VSA Partners

  Great two-minute piece about IBM brand. Strong lessons for schools. 

  “We don’t try to manage the IBM brand. We try to manage our character as a business. And we’ve never defined IBM by what we’re selling. So if we’re not going to define our brand by what we make, what defines us? And it comes back to this notion of our corporate character. And that’s our belief system and our purpose and our mission and what makes us us. We tend to that and the brand takes care of itself.”

  tags: character ibm brand #MustRead #MustSee

• Dept of Ed Report Encourages Sharing Across Disciplines | EdSurge News

  “The entire third chapter covers the potential for combining data from traditionally siloed systems to better address student needs.”

  Part 3 of 3 of @appratt’s series on US DOE Expanding Evidence Report.

  tags: DOE pratt collaboration innovation #MustRead improvement

• ‘Expanding Evidence’ Report Tempers Research With Design | EdSurge News

  “In each of these examples, the design-based approach to continuous improvement involves multiple stakeholders sharing and reflecting on many kinds of evidence. But in common practice, designers, researchers, technologists, and teachers work in silos. Or at least, they hang out all too infrequently. Innovators who can successfully cross disciplines, on the other hand, have the potential to build powerful education interventions by combining evidence and problem-solving approaches from different professional communities.”

  Part 2 of 3 in @appratt’s series about the US DOE Expanding Evidence Report.

  tags: DOE pratt research design collaboration innovation Unboundary 7.0 #MustRead

• Latest Department of Education Report Urges More Collaboration | EdSurge News

  3 part series from @appratt about US DOE “Expanding Evidence” Report. Calls for collaboration among sectors – corporate, social innovation, education [like Unboundary 7.0] to innovate education in more profound and meaningful ways.

  tags: collaboration innovation #MustRead Unboundary 7.0 pratt DOE

• Mozilla’s Debuts Open Badges To Showcase Out of School Learning and Skills | EdSurge News

  “SHOW ME YOUR BADGE: Away with the gold stars. The Mozilla Foundation officially unveiled Version 1.0 of its Open Badges project at the Digital Media and Learning Conference this week. It’s the culmination of eight months of beta testing and development, during which over 600 companies, non-profits, foundations, and other organizations have issued over 60,000 badges.”

  tags: mozilla badges learning skills #MustRead

• What a Startup and a School Have in Common | EdSurge News

  “A couple of weeks ago we posed the question, What Happens When You Cross a School and a Startup? Voilà, Clever on Campus was born.”

  tags: startup school school model control #MustRead

• Design Thinking Comes to Independent Schools – Independent Schools, Common Perspectives – Education Week

  tags: design design thinking #MustRead

• Let’s Save Great Ideas from the Ideas Industry – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review

  While I do not agree with the general blanket that Haque lays over “TED thinking,” I am stirred by his insistence that heart and action are required and not just sharing of cognitive ideas. Haque’s writing is writing that I seek to challenge me. Because I watch (consume?) so many TED talks, this seems an important challenge to me. To us.

  “To me, this is the greatest and truest failure of today’s idea industry: it is a mind without a heart. TED thinking cheats us of the better angels of our nature; of ethos itself, the highest, truest, and noblest of all the arts of human thought.

  “Great ideas, then, demand something from us — something more than pleasure. They demand more than just our “attention” — and far more than our standing ovations. They demand not just our eyes, wallets, and hands, but our hearts, minds, and souls. They demand our heartbreak, our hurt. They demand our minds don’t just “accept” — but, as critical thinkers, object, protest, question.”

  tags: TED #MustRead

• Sparks and Experiments: The Right Way to Manage and Execute Side Projects – 99U

  “What if they created an entire product division, meant to execute internal “what if…” and “wouldn’t it be cool…” ideas?”

  tags: #MustRead experiments

• Presentation Zen: The world needs you to stop being boring

  tags: Encouragement #MustRead

• Will · Destructive Change and How to Resist It

  tags: #MustRead

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