Leadership
Content that enables educators, edleaders, organizations and families to increase capacity, apply a growth mindset and implement what’s next in learning on behalf of those entrusted to them.
Leadership
Staff Picks: Charter Authorizing, Charter Days, Solar Power & Cloud Textbooks
Karen picks the article "Emanuel Takes Push for Longer Day to Charter Schools." Sarah picks the article "Publishers Turn to Cloud Computing to Offer Digital Content" on McGraw-Hill Education's Cinch platform. Tom picks performance contracting as the idea of the week.
Future of Learning
Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World
A Getting Smart book that makes the case for a blend of online and onsite learning, shares inspiring stories of schools and programs that effectively offer “personal digital learning” opportunities, and discusses what we need to do to remake our schools into “smart schools.”
Leadership
Good Work: Horrible Bosses
In an ego-centered culture, wants become needs (maybe even duties), the self replaces the soul, and human life degenerates into the clamor of competing autobiographies. -Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. We all work with some real jerks. It can make it miserable to go to work. It’s a widespread problem and…
Leadership
Staff Picks: Ed Reform, Good Work, and Getting Smart
This week, Tom picks the Foundation for Excellence in Education's Roadmap for Reform, the Nation's Digital Learning Report Card and the 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning. Karen picks Tom's Good Work Sunday series on Getting Smart, Caroline picks Tom's new book Getting Smart, and Sarah picks the "I'm Getting Smart" series on Facebook and Twitter.
Leadership
Good Work: Build a Tractor
“We can make a commitment from where we stand right now. It requires nothing other than our willingness to make a difference in whatever way feels right for us. -Michael Toms My Grandmother gave me a picture of her father plowing his field with a team of two horses. …
Leadership
Staff Picks: Longer School Days, Steve Jobs, & Assessment
This week, Karen picked an article about long school days, Caroline honored Steve Jobs with an article pick and Sarah highlighted an inspiring article by Wesley Fryer. Tom picked assessment as the hot topic of the week.
Leadership
Good Work: Developing Community Leaders
Advancing Leadership Youth From age 8 to 18 my parents dragged me along on weekly community service trips, first in DC and then the barrios of west Denver. I hated it. I’m pretty sure the routine was both service for them and training for me. A decade…
Leadership
Good Work: Apology Lesson from a 9 Year Old
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. Lynn Johnston After a little temper tantrum, my then nine-year-old daughter Katie left a note in a custom made envelope that said, “I am very sorry for the way that I have been acting. You…
Leadership
Good Work: People That Can Do No Other
Jay Kimmelman moved to Africa to launch Bridge Academies I love people that do what they do because they can do no other. You can see it in their clarity, persistence, and the ability they say no to the BS most of us put up with. In some…
Leadership
Good Work: Living in Community
You have been given a community to nurture and be nurtured by. -Rev. Mike McIntosh An anniversary like today makes me think about diverse communities living together. A few years back I went to a school board convention in San Francisco and on the way back to my hotel…