• Seth’s Blog: You can’t change everything or everyone, but you can change the people who matter

  tags: change #MustRead

• Feedback for Teachers

  Great resource from Business Innovation Factory —
  “BMGF contracted the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) to better understand the feedback that teachers receive, in what ways that feedback is shared, and under what conditions the feedback impacts teacher performance (both negatively and positively).”

  tags: feedback teachers professional learning teacher_effectiveness #MustRead

• The Broken Model Theory of Innovation | Business Innovation Factory

  What if school were not modeled on an industrial paradigm – seemingly composed of various parts that make a whole? Perhaps instruction, curriculum, assessment, etc. are not parts but more accurately a system of one “material.” Using such natural paradigm for the design of schools could result in a more organic and human way of learning. 

  I enjoyed discovering Neri Oxman’s work via Business Innovation Factory. There is much here to translate to school transformation and redesign.

  tags: innovation #MustRead

• The Revolution Starts Now

  “The central strategy for Bennington turned out to be disarmingly simple and straightforward: to turn the world’s most pressing problems themselves into major definers and organizers of the curriculum. They would be accorded the same authority to generate and organize curriculum now held exclusively by the traditional disciplines in the arts and sciences.”

  tags: #MustRead PBL real-life Challenge_Based_Learning Bennington problem_based_learning

• what is pedagogy?

  “In recent years interest has grown in ‘pedagogy’ within English-language discussions of education. The impetus has come from different directions. There have been those like Paulo Freire seeking a ‘pedagogy of the oppressed’ or ‘critical pedagogy’; practitioners wanting to rework the boundaries of care and education via the idea of social pedagogy; and, perhaps most significantly, governments wanting to constraint the activities of teachers by requiring adherence to preferred ‘pedagogies’.

  “A common way of approaching pedagogy is as the art and science (and maybe even craft) of teaching. As we will see, viewing pedagogy in this way both fails to honour the historical experience, and fails to connect crucial areas of theory and practice.”

  tags: pedagogy #MustRead

• Sam Chaltain: Stories of Transformation: Blue (School) Skies Ahead

  “The school’s mission statement spells out the core ingredients such a re-imagining will require: “cultivating creative, joyful and compassionate inquirers who use courageous and innovative thinking to build a harmonious and sustainable world.” “

  tags: transformation #MustRead

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• Embedding Innovation in Organizational DNA: The Winners of the Innovating Innovation Challenge | Management Innovation eXchange

  “What company today doesn’t put innovation at the top of the agenda? Yet how many companies have devoted the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October.

  That disconnect isn’t due to lack of human ingenuity or resources. It’s a product of organizational DNA. Productivity, predictability, and alignment are embedded in the marrow of our management systems. Experimentation, risk-taking, and variety are the enemy of the efficiency machine that is the “modern” corporation. Of course, it’s variety (and the daring to be different) that produces game-changing innovation.”

  tags: innovation organizational dna management #MustRead

• Andreas Schleicher: Use data to build better schools | Video on TED.com

  “How can we measure what makes a school system work? Andreas Schleicher walks us through the PISA test, a global measurement that ranks countries against one another — then uses that same data to help schools improve. Watch to find out where your country stacks up, and learn the single factor that makes some systems outperform others.”

  tags: TED PISA #MustRead #MustSee

• Andreas Schleicher: Use data to build better schools | Video on TED.com

  “How can we measure what makes a school system work? Andreas Schleicher walks us through the PISA test, a global measurement that ranks countries against one another — then uses that same data to help schools improve. Watch to find out where your country stacks up, and learn the single factor that makes some systems outperform others.”

  tags: ted com PISA comparativeed video #MustRead #MustSee

• Empowering Students Through Empathy and Collaboration | Edutopia

  “Decades if not a full century later, we’re still struggling with how to give students that ownership. Doing so takes lots of work, but if this generation of teachers lays the groundwork for the how, then the students will be the teachers who build upon that. Let’s do it right.”

  tags: empathy collaboration edutopia #MustRead

• Pas de Deux: On Public & Private School Partnership in EdLeader21 | chris.thinnes.me

  “I found out that public school districts had not only answered those questions, but they had done so several years beforehand. And they had implemented concrete solutions for the benefit of tens of thousands of learners, in each case. Since then, I have consistently seen more intentional cultures of deeper learning, more startling examples of transformational assessment practice, and more inspiring examples of engaged students at EdLeader21 public schools, than I have seen in all but the most exceptional independent schools.”

  tags: public private partnership #MustRead

• Google Looks to Make Its Computer Glasses Stylish – NYTimes.com

  As technology has helped drive the innovations in education, how might Google Glass play a next role? Will students be sitting in class able to pull information without even touching a keyboard or screen? Will teachers use the glasses to see dashboards of student profiles as each face is recognized in the viewer? Much is coming! 

  tags: google nytimes com computer glasses #MustRead

• If students designed their own school… it would look like this

  ““It’s crazy that in a system that is meant to teach and help the youth there is no voice from the youth at all.” That’s the opening line in a video called “If students designed their own schools,” about The Independent Project, a high school semester designed and implemented entirely by students.” [HT @ezraadams]

  tags: students designed school Independent Project #MustRead #MustSee

• Death To Core Competency: Lessons From Nike, Apple, Netflix | Fast Company

  “Business models are not meant to be static,” he explains. “In the world we live in today, you have to adapt and change. One of my fears is being this big, slow, constipated, bureaucratic company that’s happy with its success. That will wind up being your death in the end.”

  tags: nike apple netflix core competency revolution #MustRead

• The Learning Potential | The Creativity Post

  “In other words, if schools functioned for one reason, it should be to help us all discover our “learning potential.” To learn one’s own constraints, skills, and possibility, and be able to articulate that in whichever literacy you are inclined to use — be it digital or visual or oral. To learn to embrace one’s own neurodiversity as it fits or does not fit in with others, is perhaps one of the most empowering foundations to build a career of learning, living, and growing on. If we all left high school knowing fully and deeply our “learning potential,” we would be well ahead of the game of life.”

  tags: design thinking creativity edreform #MustRead

• To Disrupt Education, First Shift the Balance of Power | EdSurge News

  “The education ecosystem is rigid and in a state of deep equilibrium – it is nearly impossible to shift, and even successful efforts are ephemeral, with the system trending back toward the status quo in short order. Although there are many “spot solutions”, examples of education excellence in isolated instances, the system as a whole resists the spread of such innovations.”

  tags: disruption EdSurge innovation edreform #MustRead

• I struggle: lessons I’ve learned from being an inquiry teacher | Wright’sRoom

  “I struggle.  I struggle with where I am & what I’m doing. I struggle with the educational system as we know it. I struggle with the painfully slow pace of change.  I struggle with people in power who say they care about kids, but don’t do the hard things to make a really huge difference in creating a learning environment that matters.  With all the research that exists, we know what’s good for kids. Let’s not pretend otherwise. I’m tired of all of the talking and very little of the doing.”

  tags: inquiry struggle #MustRead

• PopTech : PopCasts : Amanda Ripley: Ask the kids

  “Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist who writes about human behavior and public policy. For Time Magazine and the Atlantic, she has chronicled the stories of American kids and teachers alongside groundbreaking new research into education reform. “Kids have strong opinions about school. We forget as adults how much time they sit there contemplating their situation.””

  tags: PISA edreform #MustRead PopTech comparativeed

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