• Thinking Big By Acting Small – Explore Create Repeat – by 4ormat

  “Goal-oriented planning relies on disciplined project management.” Innovation is big ideas and small, iterative nudges to get there. A great house is built with many swings of the hammer!

  tags: innovation productivity #MustRead

• Inspirations | The New School

  A fabulous exploration guide from a school opening in Atlanta in fall 2014 – The New School.

  tags: #MustRead School Change school model school3.0 Curriculum engagement inquiry-based Innovation

• Why Intuit Founder Scott Cook Wants You To Stop Listening To Your Boss | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

  Running portfolios of experiments to learn in more amplified and accelerated ways. Change by experimentation versus persuasion. Connected to DT and #Decisive “ooching”

  tags: experimentation experiment ooching #MustRead Innovation

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• If You Were the Next Steve Jobs… – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review

  “You don’t get to tomorrow by solving yesterday’s problems.”

  tags: Innovation Problem-solving #MustRead

• Seth’s Blog: Understanding critical path

  Wow! This piece on critical path could help revolutionize school innovation and transformation. If we would just practice such discipline.

  How to integrate w/ #Decisive, #ShipIt, #Switch, etc?!

  tags: understanding School Change transformation criticalpath #MustRead

• Seth’s Blog: Salmagundi on offer is not the shortcut it appears to be

  Brilliant advice for schools! (Understandably, out of love for children and learning, schools try to be all things to all people. More and more, schools must consider “What will we be extraordinary in, and what will we stop doing in order to achieve that extraordinary?”)

  tags: #MustRead purpose value Seth GodIn

• How Visual Thinking Improves Writing | MindShift

  “She thinks it’s important for students to have a space to express themselves without specific writing assignments or limitations. They write and draw what matters in their own lives and in the process develop their voice, humor, and point of view. They get to play with language and break out of cookie cutter forms of writing like the persuasive essay.”

  Connection to #Synergy observation journals.

  tags: writing Synergy #Synergy Student Voice observation journals #MustRead VTR

• Google Reveals Its 9 Principles of Innovation | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

  HT @grantlichtman

  tags: google innovation #MustRead

• From Brooklyn to Jakarta: Teaching Teachers Well | Edutopia

  “What if all professional development modeled the pedagogy that school leaders ask of their teachers?”

  Great case study piece on using what I call the Golden Rule of pedagogy: Do unto teachers as we would have them do unto students.

  tags: professional development professional learning #MustRead GoldenRuleofEd Leadership

• Dive Into Science With Zombies, Superheroes, and Fairies | MindShift

  Fabulous case study and example of a teacher who foundationed on student interest and curiosity and THEN worked to ID the formal learning outcomes that we subject-silo in formal schooling. Brava!

  #Synergy method

  tags: PBL inquiry-based curiosity #Synergy #MustRead Student Voice Curriculum engagement

• In India, a School that Empowers Students and Teachers | Edutopia

  An incredible job description for TEACHER. Also, navigation to educational innovation and school transformation.

  “My role in the classroom is not to deliver content,” Newcomb says. “It’s all about listening — and listening some more. You listen to find out, what do students wonder about? What are their frustrations, their passions? My job is to listen and then make connections, to turn them into knowledgeable networkers as opposed to knowledgeable workers.”

  tags: Innovation inquiry-based PBL suzieboss edutopia #MustRead

• Why We Fail

  An interesting look at why we fail to do and accomplish certain things, even when we possess the knowledge and understanding. While the main-thread example is medicine, one could easily replace “medicine” with “schooling.”

  tags: failure learning innovation #MustRead

• Unstuck iPad app – How to live better every day – Unstuck

  “Free-flowing gratitude can help you get unstuck. “Feeling good lubricates mental efficiency…”

  tags: gratitude #MustRead unstuck

• Design Thinking in Schools: An Emerging Movement Building Creative Confidence in our Youth – Getting Smart by Guest Author – design thinking, IDEO, Innovation | Getting Smart

  “The need for design thinking. This movement to build a generation of design thinkers could not be more timely or more relevant. We are living in an age of increased complexity, and are facing global challenges at an unprecedented scale. The nature of connectivity, interactivity, and information is changing at lightening speed. We need to enable a generation of leaders who believe they can make a difference in the world around them, because we need this generation to build new systems and rebuild declining ones. We need them to be great collaborators, great communicators, and great innovators.”

  tags: designthinking #MustRead d.school IDEO

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• Do You have the Personality To Be an Inquiry-Based Teacher? | MindShift

  Great questions regarding the mindset of inquiry-based instruction!

  tags: inquiry-based #MustRead coaching professional learning

• Informal Learning: Facing the Inevitable and Seizing the Advantage | Edutopia

  Great piece about what we call learning and what we call school.

  tags: edutopia informal_learning PBL inquiry-based #MustRead

• A Purpose Guide for Everyone

  How do we teach – coach, really – the ways to find one’s purpose? I’ve yet to see a class called “Purpose” in a school course catalog (and I’m not sure I’d want to see it so silo-ed out). Do we help learners understand and uncover and discover their purpose as much as we help them learn punctuation, penmanship, and prepositions? 

  I love this piece and resource from Unstuck and Stone Yamashita Partners. 

  May we be as concerned with #Purpose in schools as we tend to be with the other P’s above.

  tags: Purpose #MustRead #Synergy

• The Ethics of Innovation & Reform in Education | Connected Principals

  Fascinating, provocative blog post about some questions to ask when innovating in education. For example, #2 is “What will be the possible impacts of your action? Predicting and applying systems thinking to this process is critical. Like Peter Senge writes: ‘today’s problems are a consequence of yesterday’s solutions'”
  [HT @CenterTeach]

  tags: #MustRead Innovation School Change

• Steve Jobs: “Real artists ship.” | bwagy

  “That’s why the latter option mentioned in my previous post of “Get it out the door asap 80% done. For you will make mistakes anyway. Best get first one out the door so the second, third, fourth are even better.” works best when you’re doing something new, different, innovative… ie worth doing.” [HT @jbrettjacobsen]

  tags: #MustRead strategy ShipIt innovation

• Eight Ways to Communicate Your Strategy More Effectively – Georgia Everse – Harvard Business Review

  “Here are just a few communications approaches that will help you effectively reach your employees and encourage behaviors that advance your strategy and improve your results.” 
  [HT @ChipHouston1976]

  tags: HBR communications strategy #MustRead

• Turn Creative Fear Into Fuel – Explore Create Repeat – by 4ormat

  “Fear has the potential to be a driving force in your creative process.”

  tags: Creativity #MustRead Fear growth mindset

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