• Seth’s Blog: The lab or the factory

  I am so grateful to work and play in a lab. #MVPSchool

  tags: seth lab factory #MustRead

• Good Teaching

  “Good teaching is an act of generosity, a whim of the wanton muse, a craft that may grow with practice, and always risky business. It is, to speak plainly, a maddening mystery.”

  tags: teaching #MustRead

• What’s the biggest barrier to accomplishing great things?

  This Shane Parrish piece on Duckworth and others re: grit, persistence and pro-level learning has me thinking about how we do PD in education. #CoachingForPros

  tags: professional learning professional development #MustRead Grit

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• Be You. | Wright’sRoom

  “All people are ratios of being and becoming.” from Krista Tippett’s On Being http://www.onbeing.org/program/gender-and-the-syntax-of-being-joy-ladin-on-identity-and-transition/5646

  tags: Action Belief Purpose #MustRead identity

• Falconry: value, honor, and ask questions | Experiments in Learning by Doing

  Using questioning and honoring questions to act our way into new behaviors.

  tags: questions falconry Belief action #MustRead

• Pick-Up A Utensil And Start Cooking | Connected Principals

  When seeking transformation, how do we organize beliefs and actions?

  tags: Belief action innovation #MustRead

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• The Wejr Board – Is a School Awards Ceremony the BEST We Can Do?

  A great set of questions from @ChrisWejr on end-of-school-year awards ceremonies.
  (H/T @ChipHouston1976)

  tags: awards ceremony #MustRead recognition growth mindset

• Making Mistakes : NPR

  “We try so hard to be perfect, to never make mistakes and to avoid failure at all costs. But mistakes happen — and when they do — how do we deal with being wrong? In this episode, TED speakers look at those difficult moments in our lives, and consider why sometimes we need to make mistakes and face them head-on.”

  tags: mistakes TED&TEDx npr #MustRead

• What My Connected Students Taught Me about Motivation

  “There are many books on the topic “learning in the 21st century,” and I think I have read most of them. The authors are educators and educational experts I know and admire. Many write about what students want and how students learn. What occurred to me was that there are no books about this topic written by students.”

  So, what do you think happened next?!

  tags: motivation school3.0 real-life ActionEd #MustRead

• The Cognitive Bias Keeping Us from Innovating – Andy Zynga – Harvard Business Review

  “Any five-year-old has no trouble turning an old blanket and a couple of chairs into an impenetrable fort. But as we get older, knowledge and experience increasingly displace imagination and our ability to see an object for anything other than its original purpose. This is called Functional Fixedness and while you probably won’t need to build a fort during your professional career, chances are you do suffer from it and it is impacting your work.”

  tags: creativity imagination #MustRead

• Technology for Learning vs.Technology for Education | Remake Learning

  “How one young maker is taking her education into her own hands and gaining national attention. Check out Sylvia’s Super Awesome Maker Show.”
  (H/T @occam98)

  tags: learning real-life maker #MustRead

• Collegiate Summer “Reading” 2013 | Smore

  (H/T Holly Chesser, @SAISNews)

  tags: signals futureofed future of schools #MustRead summer reading

• Seth’s Blog: Memo to the modern COO

  tags: Leadership #MustRead

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• Learning Is A Consequence of Thinking | Connected Principals

  tags: learning interviewing professional_development #MustRead

• swissmiss | Ability to Change

  tags: change quotes Einstein #MustRead

• swissmiss | Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success

  tags: success #MustRead quotes

• “Design Thinking” Won’t Save Your School. (So Let’s Get Deeper With Design Thinking.) | Leading is Learning.

  “The schools that succeed will be the ones that get beyond the (wonderful, but insufficient) d.school Bootcamp Bootleg. They will push beyond individual “design thinking” exercises to shift entrenched mindsets, embody new behaviors, and change patterns of relation between the people in the room.”

  tags: design thinking design thinking designthinking leadership DTk12 #MustRead

• Bill Marriott Jr., on Inclusive Decision-Making – NYTimes.com

  “four most important words in the English language are, “What do you think?” Listen to your people and learn.”

  tags: Decisions leadership #MustRead

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