• Learning Walks: “Instructional Rounds” for your school

  tags: learning walks #MustRead Wagner leadership professional learning

• http://atlas.edupunksguide.org/index.html

  The EduPunks’ Atlas
  “What’s this? Mapping education’s evolving landscape; a sortable database of educational resources from the Edupunks’ Guide and around the web.”

  tags: education learning courses resources edupunk professional development professional learning #MustRead

• Chaos and Creativity: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA

  “Fostering chaos in the workplace may not be an obvious route to business success. But in his new book “The Chaos Imperative”, Ori Brafman advocates the use of “contained chaos” to encourage and develop innovation. We talk to Brafman and creativity expert Keith Sawyer about how to achieve the most productive balance between structure and chaos.”

  tags: creativity design thinking chaos innovation #MustRead

• 1 | SparkTruck: A “Bookmobile” That Brings Rapid Prototyping to School Kids | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

  “THE TRUCK CONTAINS TWO 3-D PRINTERS, A LASER CUTTER, SEWING MACHINES, AND A CLAY OVEN—AND ITS MEANT TO FOSTER A NEW GENERATION OF MAKERS.”

  tags: makerspace design thinking prototype learning environment space #MustRead

• Guerrilla Geography – National Geographic Education

  Be an explorer. Be a guerrilla geographer. [HT @jennynovoselsky]

  tags: geography exploration observation #MustRead #MustSee

• 10 of the Most Counterintuitive Pieces of Advice from Famous Entrepreneurs | The Creativity Post

  Not sure I agree with the “Goals” advice, but the other contradictory suggestions resonate with me for school and Ed innovation.

  tags: Innovation entrepreneurship #MustRead leadership

• How Bezos, in his first memo to Washington Post staff, achieved believable optimism | Poynter.

  Amazing piece of communication and leadership. 

  tags: communication leadership #MustRead Bezos post

• 5: Anything can be prototyped. You can prototype with anything. | metacool

  “A wise person operates with the worldview that anything can be prototyped, and we can prototype with anything.”

  tags: prototype design thinking designthinking DEEP #MustRead

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• Welcome to the Mathematics Assessment Project

  tags: Math assessment #MustRead #EDUC115N

• http://www.cuip.net/~cac/nlu/tie512win10/articles/Inquiry%20Modeling%20and%20Metacognition-%20Making%20Science%20Accessible%20to%20All%20Students.pdf

  Academic article on research surrounding the effects of peer + self assessment on achievement. Developing a heightened sense of what one knows. Meta-cognition and mindset.

  tags: motivation assessment mindset evaluation performance #MustRead #EDUC115N

• ENHANCING AND UNDERMINING INTRINSIC MOTIVATION: THE EFFECTS OF TASK-INVOLVING AND EGO-INVOLVING EVALUATION ON INTEREST AND PERFORMANCE – BUTLER – 2011 – British Journal of Educational Psychology – Wiley Online Library

  Academic article on research surrounding the differences in 1) giving grades, 2) giving diagnostic feedback, and 3) giving both. Developing a heightened sense of what one knows. Meta-cognition and mindset.

  tags: motivation assessment grading feedback mindset evaluation performance #MustRead #EDUC115N

• Finding Ways to Nguyen Students Over: When I Let Them Own the Problem

  I’m engaged in a Stanford MOOC called “How to Learn Math” offered by Dr. Jo Boaler. It is amazing and integrated with Dweck’s work in Growth Mindset. This example of a math re-design is a wonderful case study of big, open problems vs. small, closed problems.

  tags: math problem_based_learning #MustRead EDUC115N

• How Your Brain Reacts To Mistakes Depends On Your Mindset – Association for Psychological Science

  “people who think they can learn from their mistakes have a different brain reaction to mistakes than people who think intelligence is fixed.”

  tags: mindset #MustRead innovation

• Peter Sims, on Finding Creativity Through Imperfection – NYTimes.com

  “This is how comedians and entrepreneurs must work — by making countless small bets to discover what works. The real genius is in the approach.

  The same holds true for leaders, managers and collaborators. They must to be willing to learn from mistakes. Affordable risks should be encouraged, and small failures celebrated — these are the mark of learning organizations. Otherwise, risk aversion will lead to stagnation and decline.”

  tags: creativity innovation mistakes entrepreneurship #MustRead ooching bullets_then_canonballs

• 8 Tips and Tricks to Redesign Your Classroom | Edutopia

  Incredible case study and resource curation for space redesign of learning environments (“classrooms”)!

  tags: classroom edutopia redesign design space 3rdTeacher learning environment #MustRead

• I Believe in One Size Fits All Professional Development

  A great piece about doing what we know works, as a team, with “band adjustments” so that PL (PD) does, in fact, fit all, instead of none.

  tags: pd professional development professional learning #MustRead bestpractices

• Rebuilding Joplin High School | DesignRealized Adaptive Reuse Course

  This is a different kind of #MustRead – a web session about…

  “A 55 DAY DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
  A deadly tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri last May 22, and leveled the town’s high school. School officials were determined that school would start on time on August 17, just 55 days later.
  This session takes a look at the condensed design and construction process of transforming a vacant big box retail store into a 21st Century learning environment. It demonstrates how community involvement and a committed team created a space that surpassed all expectations.”

  tags: adaptive reuse space design Joplin #MustRead

• Barrington Irving: ‘Classroom in the Sky’ project by Florida pilot includes key Wichita stop | Wichita Eagle – newsle

  It’s past time that we rethink what we mean by “classroom.”

  tags: classroom space curriculum time #MustRead

• Diana Laufenberg: Classroom Redesign Challenge! Think Like a Designer | MindShift – newsle

  What if there were a show on HGTV about classroom redesign? Like “Design on a Dime” or “Trading Spaces.” But for learning environments in schools!

  tags: classroom design space #MustRead

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• Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness – Emily Esfahani Smith – The Atlantic

  “Being happy is about feeling good. Meaning is derived from contributing to others or to society in a bigger way.”

  Connected to “giving an education.”

  tags: meaning happiness Health synergy ActionEd #MustRead motivation purpose

• Why Teachers Need to Be Great Storytellers | Edutopia

  “The bare facts don’t engage emotions in the way that a recent New Tech graduate does when she tells her former teachers, “Your students graduate not just prepared, but inspired to chase their own whys.””

  tags: storytelling edutopia PBL #MustRead Synergy school model

  • “When (and where) were you when you learned best?”
  • One of Chaltain’s suggestions that I’d love to see schools adopt: Host “story slams” where parents, teachers, and other community members share memories from their own personal learning journeys.

• What the New SAT and Digital ACT Might Look Like – NYTimes.com

  “Big changes are coming to the nation’s two competing admissions tests.

  Mr. Coleman, who became president last October, is intent on rethinking the SAT to make it an instrument that meshes with what students are learning in their classrooms. Meanwhile, the ACT, which has always been more curriculum-based, is the first of the two to move into the digital age. In adapting its test for the computer, ACT Inc. is tiptoeing past the fill-in-the-bubble Scantron sheets toward more creative, hands-on questions.”

  tags: sat act nytimes com testing standardized assessment college_ready #MustRead

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• 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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