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.
Staff Picks: Higher Ed, Digital Learning, Math Education, SmartTech
Karen Picks “Changing the Economics of Higher Education” Karen says, “I’m a big believer in higher education, having served on a community college board, and we have quite a few college degrees in our family, but both of my children obtained their degrees with alternative/combination high school-college…
Good Work: Quality Products
You may have had the good fortune to have an encouraging teacher or a demanding boss that helped to create an indelible life-long image of quality results. Most adults are preoccupied with effort and activity rather than results. When that image is internalized, you begin holding yourself to a high standard of performance even when it seems that others do what they can get by with. Quality work, and the quality effort that goes into it, is its own reward.
Staff Picks: Online Speech, Partisanship, Online PD, Bill Nye
Tom Picks “Telepractice Brings Online Speech Services to School Districts of all Sizes” Tom says, “It’s great to see innovations in blended learning benefiting special needs student. Online speech therapy works better for students, teachers and districts.” Karen Picks “Partisanship is Ruining Public Education” Karen says,…
Good Work: A Dose of Reality
Mission-driven organizations are susceptible to avoiding market realities. Outside consultants can help impose a dose of reality during a planning process. Organizations are a lot like people when it comes to self-evaluation. It is hardest to tell yourself the truth.
Some Choose Wisely
Chad Wick’s contribution to Cincinnati, Ohio, and American education were celebrated on Wednesday at the Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Chad is stubborn, he just won’t accept the injustice that he sees in Ohio. Chad lives in the future, he’s just waiting for the rest of us to catch up with him. Chad lives as if “All means All.”
Good Work: A Grandmother’s Lesson on Integrity
There are three components to integrity on the job: honesty, delivery, and consistency. Integrity’s reward is the credibility that it fosters with others. It is the simple but important foundation for any meaningful relationship. It is the satisfaction of delivering as promised.
Good Work: Future Project Pushes Passion-Driven Learning
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Good Work: Serving Ideas
Think of the young people that go to Washington DC as the Cognitive Corps—working in service of an idea or ideal. Advocacy work is an attempt to make a difference at scale. If there is any success, it will be delayed gratification. But for the right cause, it is work worth doing.
Staff Picks: Digital Annotation, Data & StumbleUpon
Tom Picks “Digital Annotation: Don’t Just Own a Book, Possess It” Tom says, “I’ve been looking a digital highlighting companies and wasn’t convinced this was an important category, but Adam Renfro makes the case in ‘Digital Annotation: Don’t Just Own a Book, Possess It.'” Karen Picks…
Good Work in the Private Sector
US education needs more private capital and the horsepower of private enterprise to make the transition to personal digital learning. More broadly, we have an historic opportunity in this decade to extend quality secondary and tertiary education to every young person on the planet—certainly one of the most important milestones in human history—but that will take all three sectors working in collaboratively.