• What Would Be a Radically Different Vision of School? | MindShift

  ““Modern learning is about the ability to self-organize your education, to create meaning for things that have value in the world and not answer to this institution,” Richardson said.”

  tags: iDiploma real-world real-life Synergy school model School Change #MustRead

  • “We’re a place that can get kids into college.” Now families clamor to get their students into the school, but they didn’t trust the idea at the outset.
  • “Modern learning is about the ability to self-organize your education, to create meaning for things that have value in the world and not answer to this institution,”

• Learning with the Competition – President’s Blog

  tags: #MustRead school model

• How Opening Up Classroom Doors Can Push Education Forward | MindShift

  “But what if teachers embraced the idea of transparency as a form of activism, a way of shining light on what works in the classroom? “The minute we say, ‘Come look and talk to the students,’ we can show what we’re all about,” said Jose Vilson, an educator and panelist at EduCon in Philadelphia. “If we can do that with a sense of trust and expertise, with respect for ourselves and others, then we can have a pro something instead of an anti-something.””

  HT @nicolenmartin

  tags: transparency #MustRead

• The Best Teachers Don’t Do What They’re Told

  tags: #MustRead

• Where the Fish Swims, Ideas Fly – NYTimes.com

  Talk less, Do more. Be in community! All from a fish lamp.

  HT @MeghanCureton. #OneOfMyFavoriteArticlesEver

  tags: #MustRead CLIO

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• Should We Be Engaging OR Empowering Learners? | The Tempered Radical

  tags: engagement empowerment #MustRead

• Simple Truth: Engagement isn’t Something You Do TO Students. | The Tempered Radical

  This is making me think!

  tags: engagement #MustRead

• Embracing Messy Learning | Edutopia

  “I am slowly learning to embrace the struggles that students experience as they engage with authentic work. If I don’t allow learning to be messy, I eliminate authentic experiences for students as thinkers and creators. I find it important to regularly remind myself that frustration leads to insights and that learning is not necessarily the equivalent of mastery.”

  tags: authentic project_management #MustRead Student Voice Synergy iDiploma PBL

  • “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

• What Makes Milpitas a Model for Innovation | EdSurge News

  “iReady”

  tags: blended learning designthinking school model tools #MustRead 1:1

  • Principal Ken Schlaff explains that 10th graders spend three hours a day in a project-based learning class, where they explore cross content in chemistry, language, and world history
  • Three teachers, experts in each content area, teach the class collaboratively, all sharing a common prep time.

• IDEO’s Culture of Helping – Harvard Business Review

  “Few things leaders can do are more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations. In the top-performing companies it is a norm that colleagues support one another’s efforts to do the best work possible. That has always been true for pragmatic reasons: If companies were to operate at peak efficiency without what organizational scholars call “citizenship behavior,” tasks would have to be optimally assigned 100% of the time, projects could not take any unexpected turns, and no part of any project could go faster or slower than anticipated. But mutual helping is even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes depend on creativity in often very complex projects. Beyond simple workload sharing, collaborative help comes to the fore—lending perspective, experience, and expertise that improve the quality and execution of ideas.”

  tags: #mustread collaboration

• Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking | Integrative Innovation

  How #DesignThinking and #LeanStartUp can synergize.

  tags: leanstartup designthinking #MustRead iDiploma

• A Work in Progress: Growth Minded Assessment – Growth Mindset Blog

  HT @nicolenmartin

  tags: mindset math assessment #MustRead

• IFTF: Future of Learning: From Assigning to Enticing with Content

  tags: learning Future of Learning #MustRead

  • given an enormous range of learning choices, they might voluntarily flock to topics they’re passionate about

• The More I Lecture, The Less I Know If They Understand

  tags: lecture pedagogy instruction teaching instructional methods methods #MustRead engagement

• No More Genius Hours, 20% Time or FedEx Days | Findings

  Bill of Rights for Self-Determined Learning via @BombayScot [note to self: interesting serendipity this morning w/ re-discovering McIntosh essay on privilege]

  tags: geniushour 20percenttime FedEx Day learning billofrights #MustRead

• Student Choice and Classrooms of the Future – President’s Blog

  President of NAIS, John Chubb, looks at Hillbrook iLab and other learning spaces – concludes that it’s not even as much about the space as it is about student choice driving the learning engagement and pedagogy. Environment is a third teacher in establishing such student-driven exploration and ownership of learning.

  tags: classrooms #MustRead schooldesign school model NAIS Student Voice choice

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