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.
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.
Good Work: Frantic Learner
Think about all of the new things you have learned in the last year – it is probably an amazing list. Keep a journal (or write a blog) of weekly observations and what you learned from each experience. When you focus your awareness, learning jumps out at you from a variety of sources. Find out what you should be learning for this job and the next, not just for survival, but for the joy in learning, in connecting two different subjects, in mastering a new skill, in growing as a parent.
Staff Picks: ASU, Essay Scoring, EdTech Startups, & College Completion
Karen Picks “College Completion Q&A Sam Smith” Karen says, “I have always enjoyed Dr. Smith’s leadership in education. He is a true leader.” Sarah Picks ASU SkySong Ed Innovation Summit Sarah says, “We’re all excited to head to AZ next week for the Ed Innovation Summit!” Caroline Picks…
Good Work: Leave a Legacy, Teach
M. Scott Peck suggests that love is extending yourself to serve another person’s growth. In this sense, teaching is the essence of love. To teach is to leave a legacy of expanded human potential. It is a calling that every man, women and child has the opportunity to participate in - the highest calling of human existence and the greatest gift of the human spirit.
Staff Picks: Early College, Friday Films, Technovation Challenge, Jeb Bush
Karen says, "Couldn't pick just one, these two are great. First pick is Friday Films by SchoolTube: Educator Demonstrates STEM Concepts With Origami. I was completely entranced with this project. Great fun! Second pick is Breaking News Alert: Bloggers Are Getting Smart from our blogger Adam Renfro. Nothing says it better, glad to set it straight".
Good Work: A Whack in the Head
A non-voluntary job change is hard. Returning to zero means creating a new identity around competency and calling, a set of possibilities, rather than a title on a business card. It requires an inventory that takes perspective that other people may need to help you assemble. It requires you to ask, “What do I enjoy doing? ‘What am I good at?’ and ‘Where have I found success and satisfaction?” Coming from a new place requires a break with the past. It always requires introspection deep enough to find a new center, a new calling, and a new purpose.