• 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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• Dewey

  My mentor’s collection of Dewey quotes.

  tags: dewey quotes Pajares #MustRead

• God, the Devil, and the Alfred Hitchcock Show

  tags: Pajares #MustRead development edpsych

• The Ecology of Innovation in Teaching and Learning

  “The innovative teacher takes a holistic view of students and the world they live in, and engages them in projects and activities that help them make sense of the world, and applicable to their own lives.”

  tags: innovation ActionEd Dewey grantlichtman real-life curriculum #MustRead

• Designing Learning Landscapes | Inquire Within

  “Indeed, the efficiency model worked for the time and context in which it was derived. But today’s students require learning that is rich, relevant, and authentic (reflective of the ‘living’ disciplines of a topic).”

  tags: ActionEd real-life Creating Innovators Synergy #MustRead curriculum

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• At end of school year, what makes you beautiful? – Design Movement

  This is my new school team. And I could not be more proud to join them. Truly. Beautiful.

  tags: #mvpschool #MustRead leadership EQ

• Talentism: My Son Won’t Do His Homework

  tags: homework learning motivation #MustRead #CIStudy parenting

• Seeds | Thomas Steele-Maley

  “A wondrous learning environment is often one that emerges, with our care as adults. Our care in letting go of our worry and will to control, our importance in knowing what “works”, or what history says will work “always”…. For just as those seeds will grow wild, they will grow because a gentle bravery bucked all of horticulture and believed in the ability of seeds and freedom at one moment in time.”

  tags: learning environment natural #MustRead

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• Bassett Blog 2013/05: On Great by Choice – Bassett Blog

  In a recent talk at SAIS, I referred to Pat Bassett’s emphasis on being a school of the future or risk not being a school in the future. It seems clear that Bassett advises innovation and transformation. I wonder why more Indy schools don’t seem to be responding more deliberately.

  tags: bassett School Change innovation transformation Collins #MustRead

• The Nature Cure: The Surprising Health Benefits of the Great Outdoors | Wellness | OutsideOnline.com

  How might we structure school to integrate more of the essentials of nature and the outdoors? Do we mean what we say about health, wellness, balance, “what’s best for the children,” etc.?

  tags: nature health outdoors wellness #MustRead curriculum

• On Mutation in Education | Thomas Steele-Maley

  In this blog post, the design conjures a “lab experiment” page from a manual. This experiment is one very much worth discussing in a school admin team, faculty R&D group, etc. 

  tags: mutation education innovation #MustRead

• What a Good Moonshot Is Really For – Scott D. Anthony and Mark Johnson – Harvard Business Review

  What are our moonshots in education?

  tags: Moonshot strategic planning ubd #MustRead

• Ramsey Musallam: 3 rules to spark learning | Video on TED.com

  “It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of “pseudo-teaching” to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. In a fun and personal talk, Musallam gives 3 rules to spark imagination and learning, and get students excited about how the world works.”

  tags: ted learning #MustRead #MustSee curiosity questions

• “School Time” in New Zealand | Edutopia

  “Can you explain how the school day is structured, and why?”

  tags: school time schedule day edutopia #MustRead

• 5 Ways To Innovate By Cross-Pollinating Ideas | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

  Ways to bust silos! Connect ideas.

  tags: innovation design combinatorial #MustRead problem solving ideation silos

• 1 | Sweating The Details: This Workstation Doubles As A Personal Gym | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

  I can imagine a classroom full of this workstation gear. Students could use their kinetics to enhance learning rather than sitting in desks that try to minimize movement.

  tags: workstation innovation design #MustRead health

• 1 | What The WSJ’s Portrait Artist Can Teach You About Innovation | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

  tags: innovation design transformation #MustRead

• The Unexpected Antidote to Procrastination – Peter Bregman – Harvard Business Review

  Feeling our way into, and through, ed transformation.

  tags: feeling learningbydoing #MustRead

• Students Ponder the Economics of Everyday Life – NYTimes.com

  “grappling with questions that students care about appears to be a far more effective learning strategy”

  Great piece about economics with large insights about engagement, intrinsic motivation, and learning.

  tags: inquiry-based #MustRead questions Synergy

  • The assignment is my response to the distressing finding that six months after having completed a standard introductory economics course, students are no better able to answer questions about basic economic principles than others who have never even taken economics.
  • grappling with questions that students care about appears to be a far more effective learning strategy
  • Between midterm and term’s end, their brains have somehow become rewired to see the world differently.

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